Good Routers for Xbox One

Dynamic Sausage · Mar 24, 2014

It does indeed pay to complain. Does the supper hub 2 let you allocate bandwidth between devices because the one I have doesn't? That's definitely something worth phoning them about.

SILKYJJ · Mar 24, 2014

I use the ASUS RT-AC66U which has been the most amazing router I have ever used.

catigerman72 · Mar 24, 2014

I can vouch for Netgear as well. I have a N900 as my main router, and use a N600 hanging off of it to extend my hard wire ports downstairs.

Dynamic Sausage · Mar 24, 2014

I have used nothing buy Netgear too before getting this crappy standard ISP 'Super' Hub. Nothing but good things from day one to the last day.

Hellfire IRL · Mar 24, 2014

To be frank the only difference between public branded routers is their UI and wireless range, the hardware routes signals, it's like asking which type of wireless receiver is best - some last longer or are easier to set up but they're all the same. To
that effect NetGear is the most user friendly. You also need good upload for XBL, call your ISP and ask for a gaming configuration then speed test it - at the very minimum you're looking for +1.5Mbps down +500Kbps up & ping -100ms

Zero Divided · Mar 24, 2014

i have a Netgear WNDR3700 flashed with dd-wrt firmware, works great. and personally, i wouldn't touch anything Linksys since Belkin acquired them, Belkin (IMO) has always had sub-par networking equipment.

on a side note, i was playing Titanfall the other night and was watching my bandwidth while in a match and the download was only using an avg. of 270kbps and about 100kbps on the upload, honestly lower than i thought it would be.

mgzin66 · Mar 24, 2014

NETGEAR N750 Dual Band Wi-Fi Gigabit Router (WNDR4300)...It's a great router.

Merlin4421 · Mar 24, 2014

I love my netgear r7000 nighthawk

Rottie UK · Oct 31, 2018

Netgear Nighthawk R7000 here.

Absolute beast of a router and Netgear have absolutely nailed it with their implementation of QoS.

I used to have a Netgear WNR3500L on my BT Infinity 2 (FTTC) connection, with speeds of 74.3Mb DL/17.3Mb UL with average latency of 5ms to sites like google.co.uk and bbc.co.uk and although the speeds have remained the same (which I expected), the Nighthawk's
QoS blows the WNR3500L out of the water.

catigerman72

I can vouch for Netgear as well. I have a N900 as my main router, and use a N600 hanging off of it to extend my hard wire ports downstairs.

Dynamic Sausage

It does indeed pay to complain. Does the supper hub 2 let you allocate bandwidth between devices because the one I have doesn't? That's definitely something worth phoning them about.

RippenHarra

Any Netgear router has been great for me.

Dynamic Sausage

1mps is barely enough to be playing on Xbox Live to be fair. Although less than ideal, you should definitely consider speaking with your ISP about an upgrade or moving to a new ISP. I also live in a reasonably small town (it's far from big but by no means
a village) and my area is compatible with up to 152mb Fibre Optic, currently I get 50mb and pay a very low price. This is 2014 and you're getting pre-2005 speeds.

A router may help with your issues, you will most likely even be able to fix your NAT issues with the one you have but if you were to move ISP, they'd probably give you a new one that is more than capable of supplying you with a strong gaming connection.

Merlin4421

I love my netgear r7000 nighthawk

Good Routers for Xbox One