30.3.2020

My review is for TP-LINK Archer AX11000.I don't understand why Amazon aggregates star ratings for ALL variants, so if the lowest priced variant is terrible but the highest priced variant is great, you will look at the star ratings and think they are both bad.I wrote a review for the ASUS GT-AX11000 - feel free to see that one. It is AWFUL. Three replacements later and several firmware updates that took months to arrive, it is still full of bugs, devices drop connection, signal is unstable, generally a terrible product.I decided to give TP-LINK a go and wow I am glad I did. From the start, even putting it together it's a pleasure. The antennas are not twisted and cannot come loose, they are pushed in,and are therefore optimized in the best way possible since TP-LINK knows what's the best position. Unlike the ASUS AX11000, you do not have to fiddle with the antennas, you set it and forget it. I don't mind that they have red accents, they work and that's all I care about.There are fewer options on the setup GUI if compared to ASUS, however it JUST WORKS. The ASUS AX11000 has many options most of them are buggy and don't work well, so what is the point? I have found that ASUS is fond of doing this - marketing a thousand things but they are terribly supported. In 2016 I purchased a ASUS Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard, the most expensive at the time to use with my 5960x processor. That board had several BIOS updates which caused all sorts of issues, especially with USB ports. It took ASUS until around 2019 to make it stable - 3 years.... absolutely insane.You simply do not release a buggy product into the market just to shout "FIRST!!". ASUS loves the marketing aspect of things, but not the support one which is the most important. They care about being first to release and selling stuff, but they don't care that it works, as long as their review samples are carefully tuned so that they get good scores in magazines or YouTube then they're golden.I found that this is the case for their routers also.Why am I spending so much time talking about ASUS when this is a TP-LINK review? Well, because if you were like me you are researching which one is going to do the job and I want you to know that I tried the ASUS router for almost 6 months, waited for updates, applied them, and when it would fix one thing it would break others, so please don't make the same mistake and support that awful company with your money.The TP-LINK AX11000 will simply work out of the box. An example is my Nest doorbell, it would drop connection like crazy on the ASUS AX11000, but it's been running flawlessly with no drops on the TP-LINK.The most shocking thing is that both routers use the exact same Broadcom chipset, which is the radio chip that makes WiFi 6 work inside these routers. So the issue is entirely software related. ASUS programmers are just incapable of coding.Speed-wise this is not much different than the ASUS model since as I said above, they use the same radio chip to make the WiFi signals, however this is stable, so I am very happy with this purchase. Oh, and the UI is also more responsive, not to mention this has 8 Gigabit ports. This TP-LINK Archer AX11000 is worth the price. Signal range is good.Just one thing: to get the most out of this, you will need to use AX clients like the latest top Samsung or iPhone models, and on your laptop any PCI card with the Intel AX200 chip. You need to set the TP-LINK to use 160MHz on both bands, and set the channels manually rather than leaving on Auto. I picked channel 36 for the first 5GHz band, and channel 100 for the 2nd 5GHz band. It will allow clients that use AC/WiFi 5 with no issues. It will also let N/WiFi 4 connect no problem. If you leave everything on Auto then you are likely not going to get the full speed on offer, and bear in mind it depends on how thick your walls are, distance, etcetera.

20.2.2020

Going from an Archer C9, then to an Archer C3150 v1, I finally bought an Archer AX11000.Finally a router worth while.I really can't stand TP-Link's customer service or "technical" help. I was having problems with the C3150 v1, because it was only seeing my 10G network card as 100M, not 1G, like it should be doing. They wanted me to test wifi, and some other crazy hoops to jump through. If it wasn't for I dislike ASUS just as much, I wouldn't have bothered with the this Archer AX11000.Thankfully, setting up went smoothly. It updated its own firmware, and then setting everything up through its app or webpage is easy enough.As expected the range is better than the C3150,and everything seems more stable with having over 20 different items connected to it. To a point where I no longer need to use an extender to cover my smallish three floor, three bedroom house.It's got it's own built in Ookla speed test, which comes in hand, because you at least know what you're starting point is, for the wifi drop off as you move further away. (The drop off is fully expected)I really didn't feel like having to spend more money on my network, but this works nicely with Virgin's 500 package. The eight built-in ports have meant I could also take out a 1G networking switch from the loop.I've had it for 1 week so far, and never had to reset it, apart from setting different bits up, which it does itself. A whole 6 days with no new settings, and everything is still going fine. Since I'll never get the use of 10G networking, and most likely never go faster than 2.5G on the internet (Most likely stay at 1G if it ever gets here), I'm fully hoping to get a good ten years out of this thing, five at the very least.So, so far, money worth while spending? I hope so, because the cash I saved moving from Sky to Virgin for a year, and now been swallowed up by this thing! It's just the C3150 wasn't cutting it any more!Be warded though, this thing isn't small, and has some weight to it. My front room window sill, has only just enough room to it, to hide behind the curtain.Are there cheaper options? Most likely, but if you want something that gets the job done, covers a largish areas of your home, and you've got gamers in that home, I'd say, make the investment, then instead of arguing with cheap rubbish.You don't have to be super techie, just able to read instructions to set this thing up.Just don't expect great help from TP-Link directly, if my experience with them, is anything to go by. Only one out of three people seemed to know what they were actually talking about. Then a simple "Sorry" email from a manager after from three hours of my time wasted. Such a shame!So, buy directly from Amazon, so if anything does go wrong, you can send it back, and start again!

27.6.2013

While I'm in agreement with the other positive reviews of this product, I do feel that for those among us not proficient in the technology there are some basic points it's worth mentioning:1) To clarify, this router cannot be used in place of the existing router that is connected to your phone line. At least, that was my experience having read the manual and going through the set-up procedure. I don't think this is adequately explained in the product description, not as plainly that I think is necessary for those people who are unfamiliar with internet connections. In fact, I think it's misleading to call this is a router- consider it an additional booster hub.2) Contrary to the views of some other reviewers,

3.7.2020

Archer C4000 and Virgin Media success:We lurched along with a Virgin V3 hub & 350Mbit package for six months until we could take no more. Virgin could never answer why aggregate across all devices topped out at 150mbit on the odd occasion it managed to hold five or more connections for two minutes without locking up. It was as if tech support had been told not to engage on the topic of the V3 being rubbish and talk around it.If you live in a UK standard construction three storey house and have VM coming in in the ground floor you don’t need mesh or repeaters or hybrid or power line or anything fancy - you just need an Archer C4000.Download the TP link tether app before you start.Log into your V3,

2.7.2019

I bought the AX6000 after my 3rd Asus RT-AC88U failed. It's probably safe to say I'm a power user but this thing hasn't skipped a beat since I set it up.To touch on the set up very briefly, it was a doddle.. Literally did it on my phone via the app. I was almost a little annoyed that it didn't require more effort on my part. I was able to set up the router, set up separate 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs, hide them, create a guest network (of which you can also split into a separate 2.4 and 5GHz) assign static IPs etc, all from the app. You can get into the more advanced settings from the web interface.This isn't a review of my previous Asus router but to say this is an upgrade is an understatement.

19.1.2020

I got this to get decent wi-fi upstairs as my virgin hub 2 isn't powerful enough to reliably send wi-fi to the top floor of my family's house. I will start by saying that this router provides really fast wi-fi over both 2 and especially 5ghz with a really respectable range, plus even with multiple devices connected the speed is very good and stable.Rather than just adding and extra internet connection upstairs I wanted to be able to still connect to other devices on the existing network, so when I read that this router can act as an access point rather than just it's own network I chose this one and I'm very glad that I did. One of the really useful features of this tplink is that you can easily set up and configure it via an app called tplink tether.

9.3.2020

Having had to put up with the stupid VM Hub 3.0 load of Sh*t that was supplied by Virgin Media, and having WiFi extenders and all manner of gizmo's around the house just trying to get good WiFi. My life has been transformed. Previously I would be asked by my wonderful patient wife (sarcasm filter in operation) at least once a day and more on weekends "why isn't the WiFi working in the: bedroom, conservatory, upstairs toilet, garden shed, dogs basket etc" I decided before our postcode became just another bit of data in another senseless murder to do something about it. So after spending, strike that; toiling on the relentless search to find the answer to all our problems,

25.4.2019

I have had my internet service with Virgin Media for the past 7 years. I have had every single generation of SuperHub (generation 1, 2, 2ac and 3), and every single one of them has been pretty rubbish. Originally the problem was just with the wifi, so for a while I used my original SuperHub in modem-only mode, and used an Apple AirPort as a wireless router. Then my SuperHub 2ac seemed to be more stable, so I sold my old Apple AirPort. But my latest Virgin Media SuperHub 3 cannot even provide a stable Ethernet connection - I was constantly losing internet connection on devices which were connected by Ethernet cable, while devices which were connected via wifi were working fine!

14.11.2013

I upgraded from a previous TP-Link router (the N750) as I wanted greater 5Ghz coverage, the antennae on this compared to the N750 are reversed so on the C7 the 5ghz antennae outside and the 2.4ghz inside but the N750 is the other way around assuming from this that I'd get better 5ghz coverage but that's what let me down, it's a 3 bedroom house that does seem to have 5ghz blackspots which is an unfortunate side affect of 5ghz and it's inability to penetrate solid objects easily. Unfortunately though as the 2.4ghz antennae are now inside, that signal is weaker but we're talking about speeds that are irrelevant anyway, and was still able to max out my fibre broadband with this router via WiFi.Overall,

23.4.2019

I live in a 3 storey terraced house with WiFi blackspots all over the house above the ground floor.My broadband setup consisted of the Virgin Superhub 3 on the ground floor and a Netgear WiFi extender on the first floor.I have lived with a frustrating WiFi signal for 2 years, sometimes it worked great and sometimes it didn't.It wasn't until Our Planet arrived on Netflix that I noticed how choppy the WiFi signal was to the TV in my back room. I was expecting Crisp HD from my 100mb connection and it just kept failing to maintain it.I looked online for a solution and came across this router. I saw all the reviews pointing towards it fixing their Virgin router problems and thought I would give it a go.I set my Virgin hub to modem mode,

25.6.2020

I was not sure whether to get a mesh system or bridge my ISP modem to a new router to fix a few wifi black spots in my house. My ISP supplied router is by no means a bad one in terms of signal though..I did some research on signal strength of various routers as that was the only thing I was really interested in. A router doesn't make your internet speed any faster.As reference - house is detached dormer bungalow with a footprint of 10m x 20m (30x60ft) with 260sqm (2800sq ft) living area. All concrete block walls downstairs, wooden floor and stud walls upstairs. Router placed in the centre of the house downstairs.This router didn't disappoint..No more blackspots in the house and overall a 5-10 DBM improvement,

25.7.2018

After having issues with buffering whilst streaming programmes via an Amazon Fire box, I started to look into how to resolve the issue.We are on Virgin Media 200mb broadband so we have enough speed, I tried upgrading the ethernet cables to Cat 7 and that helped,However I read that it is actually the routers that are supplied for free, they really just can't keep up with having too many devices and so I looked into a better router.The TP-Link AC1750 seemed to be the best choice, not cheap but not too expensive and so I purchased it!I put the Virgin Media Hub into router mode and connected an ethernet lead through to the TP-Link AC1750,

9.5.2020

Firstly, I've given 0 stars to tech support as I haven't had to contact them.We have sky fibre broadband which isn't the fastest at the best of times. However, it's the Wi-Fi on the equipment that they provide you with which is really bad. Our Wi-Fi keeps dropping out and only returns speeds of about 20 - 30 megabits per second so I was desperate to find a solution to the problem. sky sent me a booster to try and speed up the Wi-Fi around the house (which I had to pay for) and make it more stable, but it didn't work, in fact it made no noticeable difference. Both of my son's like to game in their bedrooms on PCs and games consoles etc. I won't let them have a wired connection in the bedrooms because of all the hassle.

10.7.2013

This is quite the 'Bad Boy'. Not only is this very good for ordinary surfing etc from your Laptop or Smartphone, but this piece of wireless tech is very good for those who Game on-line, High Definition streaming of films, or particularly large file downloads. It's also dual band (5 + 2.4GHz concurrent) , which cuts out interference from wireless phone sets and other house appliances. Capable of 1300 + 450 Mbps. Has Gigabit wired speed and 2 USB ports. Has a WPS wireless security button. You can allocate a section of the network for guests, so they are not on your network .... good idea. Supports IPv6 latest internet Protocol tech.This is IEEE 802.11ac wireless tech, which can be up to 3 times faster than IEEE 802.11n,

19.5.2020

I thought I’d jump into the WiFi 6 world as my old ‘ac’ class Netgear router was struggling with gaming ‘children’ 4K TV, and multiple smart devices - kept dropping and connection was slow = lots of household moans. So as there seems to be no integrated DSL modem-routers out there in the market, I paired this Archer AX50 with a DrayTek Vigor 130 modem. The modem did the business, passing the internet signal straight to the Archer AX50 with no configuration required. My ISP is BT and the Archer AX50 was then a breeze to set up with them via the Tether app which is very very easy to use. I’d recommend using the ‘Auto Detect’ option though when selecting the internet connection type.

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