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I am getting Afrihost 50+(50up/50down) FTTH next month.

The are recommending that I should get the Zyxel NBG6515 Router.

I currently have a TP-Link Archer C7, will this router be fine to use?
I also saw recommendation for getting the Ubiquiti EdgeRouterX or the DrayTek Vigor2860.

Can anyone give me some advice on one of these or give me a better option?
 
itsMaddMatt said:
I am getting Afrihost 50+(50up/50down) FTTH next month.

The are recommending that I should get the Zyxel NBG6515 Router.

I currently have a TP-Link Archer C7, will this router be fine to use?
I also saw recommendation for getting the Ubiquiti EdgeRouterX or the DrayTek Vigor2860.

Can anyone give me some advice on one of these or give me a better option?
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If the TP-Link has a wan port you should be okay. I would highly recommend a pfsesnse setup, or Mikrotik as well.
 
Don't get the Zyxel SBG3300-N like I did. Absolute POS, with an awful user interface.
 
jackshiels said:
If you are on an extreme budget, this guy is great. Limited to 100Mbps but dirt cheap and the sheer amount of options available in the control panel is dizzying: https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-rb9412nd-hap-lite-soho-2ghz-wifi-router.html
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Those things are horrible.

Our wireless division has had a number of clients switch from other service providers, each time telling us how useless the service provider is. The SP in question has a standard recipe for new installs of UBNT on the roof and that thing in the house. We netinstalled the first one, set it up the way we normally do and saw this wasn't going to work. We now send those routers off to ewaste and replace them with these: https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-rb951ui2nd-hap-2ghz-wifi.html

Result is happy customers.
 
jackshiels said:
Huawei HG659 is a great router. My only problem is the lack of WDS support. Haven't been able to find it, at least.
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This is our standard recipe for Constantia FTTH:

1 x https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-hex-poe-lite-5xfe-4xpoe-out-ros-l4.html
A couple of https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-rbwap2nd-wap-2ghz-wifi-outdoor-router.html if it's a 10Mb link or
A couple of https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-wapac-2-4-5ghz-wifi-outdoor-router.html if it's a 20Mb or higher link.

Everything just works.
 
portcullis said:
Those things are horrible.

Our wireless division has had a number of clients switch from other service providers, each time telling us how useless the service provider is. The SP in question has a standard recipe for new installs of UBNT on the roof and that thing in the house. We netinstalled the first one, set it up the way we normally do and saw this wasn't going to work. We now send those routers off to ewaste and replace them with these: https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-rb951ui2nd-hap-2ghz-wifi.html

Result is happy customers.
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The HAP lite isn't bad, but there is way better. Considering the price, it's actually a decent product.
 
Genisys said:
The HAP lite isn't bad, but there is way better. Considering the price, it's actually a decent product.
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My point. The price is very, very low and in my experience it worked fine. In fact, it actually connected through the WAN when the HG659 wouldn't (back in the teething days of Constantia FTTH).

I mean, it's not like they flat out do not function. That being said, if you want a good FTTH experience you should be willing to spend more than ~R500 on your router...
 
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Genisys said:
Interesting. Very interesting. Does the user's know they can do IPv6? I have ipv6 tunnels running, but the latency makes it worthless for my use case.
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The users know.

Tracing route to www.google.com [2c0f:fb50:4002:802::2004]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2c0f:f470:2:2::1
2 6 ms 5 ms 2 ms 2c0f:f470:0:8::1
3 5 ms 7 ms 6 ms 2c0f:f470:0:4::2
4 9 ms 6 ms 6 ms e2.ccr1036-edge.ct1-dc3-a02.as37640.net [2c0f:f470::1]
5 25 ms 27 ms 28 ms 2c0f:f470:0:2::2
6 29 ms 24 ms 27 ms 2001:43f8:6d0::a
7 28 ms 29 ms 26 ms 2001:4860:0:1::18b
8 27 ms 26 ms 30 ms 2c0f:fb50:4002:802::2004

Trace complete.

Tracing route to www.mikrotik.com [2a02:610:7501:1000::2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2c0f:f470:2:2::1
2 7 ms 6 ms 4 ms 2c0f:f470:0:8::1
3 6 ms 5 ms 7 ms 2c0f:f470:0:4::2
4 12 ms 7 ms 10 ms e2.ccr1036-edge.ct1-dc3-a02.as37640.net [2c0f:f470::1]
5 27 ms 25 ms 28 ms 2c0f:f470:0:2::2
6 28 ms 38 ms 27 ms 2001:43f8:6d0::42
7 220 ms 198 ms 198 ms 10ge3-11.core1.lon2.he.net [2001:470:0:291::1]
8 233 ms 238 ms 235 ms 2001:7f8:4::3122:1
9 230 ms 233 ms 232 ms 2a02:2330:c:18::2
10 232 ms 230 ms 233 ms 2a02:610:7501:1000::1
11 229 ms 229 ms 231 ms www.mikrotik.com [2a02:610:7501:1000::2]

Trace complete.
 
portcullis said:
The users know.

Tracing route to www.google.com [2c0f:fb50:4002:802::2004]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2c0f:f470:2:2::1
2 6 ms 5 ms 2 ms 2c0f:f470:0:8::1
3 5 ms 7 ms 6 ms 2c0f:f470:0:4::2
4 9 ms 6 ms 6 ms e2.ccr1036-edge.ct1-dc3-a02.as37640.net [2c0f:f470::1]
5 25 ms 27 ms 28 ms 2c0f:f470:0:2::2
6 29 ms 24 ms 27 ms 2001:43f8:6d0::a
7 28 ms 29 ms 26 ms 2001:4860:0:1::18b
8 27 ms 26 ms 30 ms 2c0f:fb50:4002:802::2004

Trace complete.

Tracing route to www.mikrotik.com [2a02:610:7501:1000::2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 2c0f:f470:2:2::1
2 7 ms 6 ms 4 ms 2c0f:f470:0:8::1
3 6 ms 5 ms 7 ms 2c0f:f470:0:4::2
4 12 ms 7 ms 10 ms e2.ccr1036-edge.ct1-dc3-a02.as37640.net [2c0f:f470::1]
5 27 ms 25 ms 28 ms 2c0f:f470:0:2::2
6 28 ms 38 ms 27 ms 2001:43f8:6d0::42
7 220 ms 198 ms 198 ms 10ge3-11.core1.lon2.he.net [2001:470:0:291::1]
8 233 ms 238 ms 235 ms 2001:7f8:4::3122:1
9 230 ms 233 ms 232 ms 2a02:2330:c:18::2
10 232 ms 230 ms 233 ms 2a02:610:7501:1000::1
11 229 ms 229 ms 231 ms www.mikrotik.com [2a02:610:7501:1000::2]

Trace complete.
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I might end up moving to Cape Town just to get some native IPv6 addresses.
 
itsMaddMatt said:
I am getting Afrihost 50+(50up/50down) FTTH next month.

The are recommending that I should get the Zyxel NBG6515 Router.

I currently have a TP-Link Archer C7, will this router be fine to use?
I also saw recommendation for getting the Ubiquiti EdgeRouterX or the DrayTek Vigor2860.

Can anyone give me some advice on one of these or give me a better option?
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But the provider should install a router as part of the installation so no need to go out and buy one
 
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