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Finally got it to work with my Virgin media super hub - I done lots of research before on how to get things setup and it turned out to be much easier then I thought ( it was as simple as plug and play)I read about how others are setting their superhub as modem only and then using this as the actual wifi sender.. I done the same and it worked - signal is much much more powerful then the superhubI also have a wifi socket that connects to your socket line to extend the cabling ( it's a bt broadband extender flex 500 ) and I read in the instructional manuel of this router that it can be used as an access point - so I experimented and here is my final setupI now how wifi from the super hub and wifi from this routerI installed the superhub in my upstairs office ( needed the direct connection ) and ran a Ethernet cable to the BT 500 flex socketI then installed this new router downstairs using a Ethernet cable that comes out of the BT 500 flex socketThis now gives me wifi all around the house ( even in my outer building which is why I needed this in the first place )All you need to do is connect this router to your main super hub and it will automatically work as an access point meaning it will clone your super hub and allow you to connect to it giving you the same IP etcYou can still opt to set the super hub as a modem only but why do that when you can have 2 -

Bought for the 802.11ac WiFi for to enable higher quality video streaming on Chromecast Ultra and Steam Link - performs that admirably.Unfortunately the router aspect is mediocre. The interface suffers a bit from Chinglish and has a few bugs I've found so far:- Have NOT been able to connect to PPTP VPN using it. If anyone has worked out how please leave a comment!- Seems that WiFI passwords can't include spaces. That took a lot of head scratching to figure out what was going wrong.- By default the Router will automatically do a reboot every day at a specific time. Took some time to hunt that down in the menu to find out why I had no internet for a few minutes every morning like clockwork.

I hoped to be writing a good review after seeing all the 5 star plus ones on here, but no. The one star is because the company replied in minutes.The case and the antenna look good, but the insides are what bring it down with a big bump.1 The Wifi only does a handful of countries the UK not being one. Therefore I don't know if I'm broadcasting out of band.(causing interference)2 The telenet port is open and has (according to AFoundry) no access3 The UPNP has no records of who/what is actually using the service. Most do.Just as I was about to box up I did a test on GRC (google it) to test my ports. To my amazement port 139 is open to the internet.I asked AFoundry if they could fix this. Their reply was why I'm sending it back." Okay, I advise you could return it to Amazon, since it need some time for us to revise these problems and push it to markets, "I had an issue once using Draytek and they were on it in minutes.The Green are StealthBlue are closedRed are open.See the attached images. Left is the AFoundry. Right is my TPLINK TL-WDR3600 (it's on it's last legs but can still block traffic)I hate to write reviews longer than this but, there's too much to let go here.A.

Well, like a lot of things in life, they start off as one thing and then end up being another. This router is no different.Let me start by saying that I went out on a limb on this router. I always got told "you get what you pay for". "Well" I said, "this is fairly expensive. Surely this is the router to see me through the next few years". Oh, how I was wrong.Within the first few days of use I had come to realise that the firmware was thoroughly terrible. It mostly consists of poorly translated Chinese and doesn't really work. If you're enticed by the prospect of running a VPN through here, you'll be disappointed – that doesn't work either.I'm assuming the firmware has some kind of memory management issue (or something similar) as periodically I need to reset the thing as it just stops working. The lights stop blinking, the internet stops and I can't get in through the web interface. A hard reset is required. Speaking of the web interface...Let me take you back 6-12+ years. When it came to mobile phone manufacturing, it was dark times. Available to the consumer were a handful of brands available to you. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Philips or Panasonic to name a few. Each manufacturer would write their own firmware for their handsets - a slightly different version for every model. This firmware would actually be static on the device as it couldn't/wouldn't be updated by the manufacturer.Now, fast forward a couple of years and a company called Google said "Hey everyone. We've developed this new mobile operating system called Android. If you want, you can put this OS on to your devices and it's totally free to put on the devices that you're making." Look where we are today. An ever mutating, highly polished, universal operating system that runs on pretty much anything.In case you weren't aware, there is a smaller, more open source, equivalent for routers called DD-WRT and OpenWRT. Its a pretty solid bit of firmware that, with some hardware specific changes, can be installed on the device to do a whole boat-load of stuff, <Side note - If you're looking to upgrade your existing router, try taking a look at their website to see if your model is supported. You might find that you can unlock a lot of potential with your existing hardware>."So Luke, what is your point?" I hear you ask. Well, put two and two together. It shocks me that still, in this age, that manufacturers are going out, trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to firmware. They try, and fail miserably. They go about making some half-hearted attempt at writing their own stuff that never gets updated or patched. What they should be doing is taking an off-the-shelf solution, such as DD-WRT, and tailoring it to work on their products. This not only saves time, but it increases performance and reliability, as well as probably cutting a lot of development costs.But here we are.. 4 months on. I've got a router, that's ugly enough to give children nightmares, sat in the living room, that I need to hide under the coffee table because the thing is so huge and ghastly, that I need to hard reset about once a week.My recommendation? If you have an existing router, check out dd-wrt to see if your model is already supported.If not, then take a look to see what is available to buy and then to see if they're supported with the intention of changing the firmware on day one of owning the thing.Overall – disappointing.