Archer VR400

Having put up with my Sky Q router for the past year or so, I finally got sick of it and decided to switch the router. I was suffering from signal drops in nearly all my devices that connected via 5g. The signal would cut out for around 2-3 seconds and then reconnect. Streaming to my chromecast etc became unreliable but the main issue was wifi calling. We get poor signal in our house and so WiFi calling was a big plus for us. Due to the signal drops though, we found our calls were cutting out which was really frustrating. It used to be that Sky forbid customers from using non-Sky equipment with their Internet service but that changed last year. You are now able to use any router you want, it just means you can't get Sky customer support for your equipment (obviously). I suppose this does mean that should you have a problem with your line, Sky could easily blame your 3rd party router. Only time will tell with that. Having read a lot about which router to get, I decided to have a punt at this one. Not too expensive but with mostly positive reviews. I have to say that the improvement on the Sky Q router is huge. WiFi coverage is massively improved and the 5g speed to my devices went up by a 3rd. I have not experienced any of the issues other negative reviewers have reported (random reboots, weak signal, slow speeds etc). It may be that they simply received 'bad units' - factory defective units - all manufacturers produce these unfortunately. One tip I would give - the setup instructions state that the app should be used to set up the connection. I struggled with the app for about half an hour. Upon selecting Sky as my provider in the setup menu, on the app there are no fields to input your username and password. I decided to set up using my web browser and discovered that there were more options than in the app. Within 5 minutes of using the browser, I was connected. Overall great budget router and no more WiFi calling cut outs!

Initially tried setting up using the android app and renaming the SSID, setting new password etc. Kept failing to connect to internet and left me wanting to smash the unit. Then I tried setting up via the web browser method and leaving the SSID and password to the presets... setup quickly and worked perfectly fine... I suggest doing this first and leaving any tinkering with SSID names and passwords for a day when you have time and patience. Once it was all working though, it all seems fine... get 2.4ghz and 5ghz options. Speed shows slight improvement on my ISP (Plusnet) router and without any of the stability issues (so far). Also happened to buy some Devolo homeplugs at the same time (which work great)... router seems to play nicely with these too. As for the router design.... ugh! It's the cheapest, nastiest, glossy fingerprint magnet plastic you can imagine.... which is a shame, as it has to sit in our hallway and is the first thing you see when you come in our house. Still... it works (once setup) and seems to work well... which is all I really want.

Got this to replace the TalkTalk Super Router, which is anything but super: I was getting signal drop-out on the third floor of my house, where my office is. So, replaced with this for my fibre connection, and problem solved: Consistent, good signal all around the house. Also easy to set up: Just connect via wifi using the password/pin printed on the back of the router, go to the admin page (192:168:1:1, where you will be prompted to enter a new password), and select your ISP from the list. Job done. I've also set it to hide my new SSID, added MAC address filtering, and set up the guest network with a separate password and SSID, then backed up the settings. Edit June 2020: Two and a half years later, the router was resetting several times a day, as though the power had been disconnected, with all the lights going out and then a short wait for it to be up and running again. Replaced with an identical one, and all is well again. I also set up the same SSID and WPA2-PSK password, Thankfully, this meant that all the multitude of devices I use (computers, phone, tablet, printers, internet radios, smart TVs, etc) did not need to be logged back in. Phew! I'm not altering my rating, as 2.5 years of this running 24 hours a day is fine in my book. The firmware seems to have changed considerably, so the settings I previously backed up for the old router would not work with this one (both were on the latest firmware version). But set-up is still simple, although it meant typing in the MAC addresses for MAC address filtering again (now entered in pairs of hex, so copy-paste is not much help). Note that this setting is now under the Security tab (advanced settings), rather than the Wifi tab, as previously, and is now called Access Control. It also allows fewer characters for the device name, which I find slightly annoying. I'm not sure about the questions I found here on my review as I returned to it: You do not need any old TalkTalk passwords. You will need to reset the router access page password the first time you long in via 192:168:1:1, using the password printed on the back of the router, and it is advisable to set a more meaningful SSID and associated password which you will need to enter into every device you connect: I made these identical for both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks for simplicity. The Guest network is the same principle, with alternate SSID and associated password (Advanced settings again), having ticked the box to enable it. I also, as stated above, tick the box to hide my SSID, as an extra precaution. I also spliced in some extra wire to the new mains-adapter (safely, with soldering and heat-shrink tubing, being very careful to maintain correct polarity), as the router has always been mounted high on the wall in the hall: This helps to give a strong signal over three floors, with the full stated speed obtainable all around the house. Don't do this unless you are sure what you are doing however.

Preis/ Leistung stimmt. Er macht, was er soll. Schnelle Lieferung. Alkes in Ordnung, kann man weiter empfehlen.

After nearly two years of daily rebooting of our ISP provided Zhone VDSL modem router, we replaced it with this and are 100% happy. The Zhone modem/router would lock out some of our devices after a day. I chatted with the service tech at Siskiyou Tel and he recommended Tp-Link and the Archer-400. We have a lot of Wifi and ethernet devices attached to our network (IOT and monitoring and servers as software developers working from home), and need a reliable modem/router. THIS MACHINE (imported from UK as Tp-Link doesn't sell a USA specific version), ROCKS!!! super fast, 100% reliable.

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It looks different from the advertised picture but I think it is because the model has been updated to VR400 V3 from the previous VR400 V2, and also the plug is now Australian type. It was smooth to be set up and configured (within 10mins) and it works well with my TPG NBN 200MB/s plan. The 5GHz signal has satisfying speed of 200-250 MB/s and the 2.4GHz signal at around 50-100MB/s. I will have 150MB/s-200MB/s using the 5GHz wifi even I am two rooms away from the router. The router is so far so good, and far better than my old NF7 router which can finally enjoy its retired life.