New wireless router - is this all I need?

[Jimmy Recard]

BT Homehub 3 looks to be failing (crashing and rebooting itself, dropping connections and several factory resets only saved it for a few hours)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessorie...

Can I just pick this up from my local PC World or is there anything else I need to know first?

[telford_mike]

It will work fine - I installed one of those a couple of years back for our neighbours. You may need a username and password to make the connection work - Google will know what they are.

[Jimmy Recard]

Thanks Telford Mike. I'll nip along to PC World at the Forge Retail Park in a bit!

[megaphone]

Personally I'd be looking for a better unit, a dual band one with 5Ghz WiFi and AC. Surely BT will replace a failed router?

[Jimmy Recard]

megaphone said:

Personally I'd be looking for a better unit, a dual band one with 5Ghz WiFi and AC. Surely BT will replace a failed router?

Will that make a big difference? It'll pretty much just do emails and Pistonheads with the occasional Youtube video

BT won't replace it outside warranty without signing a new contract. Well, they wouldn't last time this happened

[Jimmy Recard]

Hi, just bringing this up again as I didn't get round to it in the end.

If I buy the router I linked, can I just disconnect my Home Hub 3, connect that router and it should all work? Or do I need to get a modem and something else?

I'd rather get it right rather than the wrong thing and have to go back and do it all again

[Jimmy Recard]

Well, I'm glad I did that!

The first instructions I found for BT Broadband said that it didn't need a password or if it insisted, just write in [e-mail].

So I did that for ages, completely stumped. Eventually I came across another page that said the password should just be BT

That worked instantly. And the upload and download rates on the line have doubled on this router. TP Link Archer VR400 is the model I eventually chose