Hi
Back story below, but as its a wall of text, the headline is what standalone modem (or modem / router that can be bridged) should I buy to connect enable me to use Sky BB Unlimited with a Asus AC86U (or possibly 68u)? I want to avoid double NAT issues and increase reliability, whilst maintaining speeds. Thankyou in advance.
Edit: With the investment in the AC86u (and a pair of twins on the way), it will ideally be cheap, say circa £30 new or second hand.....
Currently using an SR101 and a TP Link Archer D7 behind it carrying out all DHCP & routing. Effectively two networks on two subnets (Sky 192.168.0.XX, TP Link on 192.168.2.XX). However, this means lots of port forwarding and the usual double NAT issue.
I'm going overseas for a couple of months and need a more reliable setup as I find I need to reboot either Sky or TPLink routers occasionally (typically once per week to 3 weeks).
I'm planning on the Asus router for its reliability, and as its a good'un will probably create a VPN to my server....I understand that double NAT hates this, even with port forwarding.
So, I thought "easy" lets just get a standalone modem and extract my sky details from the SR101. However, that's where I got confused. Very few "decent" stand alone modems about these days. And lots of talk about PPoA to PPOE handover from modem to router (sorry, thats probably wrong) that is particular to Sky ADSL.
It seems that the Vigor 120 (and 130) will do it, but they don't seem to have the greatest performance or reliability.
I looked at a TP W9970 but that only seems to bridged on a VDSL connection
Huawei HG612 was another option, but most of the success stories seem to be about fibre.