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[sof006]

I am helping another friend who wants to replace his BT router with a better 3rd party solution but his budget is £100, his internet keeps dropping out and i've came to the conclusion that its the routers fault.

He only gets around 30Mb on his line so super fast isn't a priority, something with decent range I would say.

I was looking at this, obviously suggestions would have to be compatible with BT (I know majority of routers are fine however).
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/26717-tp-link-archer-vr400/

Budget must not exceed £100. Any help would be appreciated.

[Chunkers]

Hi sof006

The BT home hubs I have seen generally have had stable connections, from memory they mostly have Lantiq or Broadcom chipsets and where I live we have quite poor phone lines and they do pretty decent job - are you sure its the router? Perhaps you could share some line data, there are people on here who might be able to help ...

I think the VR400 has a Broadcom chipset, you might end up with similar performance if the chipset is the same?  Personally I am not a fan of TP-Link equipment due to their poor firmware support, I would go for a more reputable second hand device or alternatively flash a third party firmware.

C

[gt94sss2]

As Chunkers says it may well not be the BT modem that is responsible- especially if you have done a hard reset on it. It would be interesting to see the stats.

ZyXel modems are popular on these boards and something like the VMG 8924 should be quite cheap.

[tubaman]

If your friend is on-contract with BT I'd advise that he contacts them first, as they may well send a replacement router out for free.
 

[aesmith]

Loads of Zyxel VMG-8924s on Ebay.  I got mine for £30, unused in a John Lewis branded box but in fact completely standard.