Hi all,
Sorry. Normally I can decide such matters myself but am failing hopelessly this time. Thus I throw myself on the collective wisdom of Kitz. So. We're on Vodafone Broadband and have no complaints other than the suspicion were aren't getting the full throughput / latency benefit of our broadband. Everything has a bit of lag, Xbox downloads are shy of the maximum speed and download speed is lumpy etc... etc... I would like to switch the Vodafone supplied doodad for something with a bit more grunt and line hugging magic. Now Vodafone are providing login credentials it doesn't seem to be much of a problem... What's stymieing me is that the chipset specifications of the Vodafone doodad are "good" so I'm struggling to identify what to replace it with. I've looked at the Fritz!box (3490) and Zyxel (VMG1312) but am unsure if either of these offer appreciable improvement? If it helps:
I'd like the ability to do connection monitoring.
Our phone line has had a tendancy to have intermittent cracking and squelching - though not at the moment...
We're in a flat and at least 1Km from the cabinet (which I can't locate* to identify is type)
We're on Fibre 38 but contemplating upgrading due to 4k movies and just being an internet heavy household of many devices.
Budget is about £100.
Business type devices don't scare me.
Screenshot of current stats attached.
Thanks for your advice in advance
*Our exchange is GRAYS THURROCK and we're served by Cabinet 8 - but there are a few cabinets with no markings so I can't be sure which we're connected to.