TalkTalk Wi-Fi Hub

By Matt Hanson

When you sign up for broadband, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will supply you with a modem router for free, and these are usually low-spec devices that don’t have the features you can get from (more expensive) third-party companies such as Netgear and Belkin.

With the TalkTalk Wi-Fi Hub, TalkTalk is attempting to challenge the notion that for the best Wi-Fi speeds you need to use a third-party router, promising the improved Wi-Fi performance and features you usually see on more advanced routers, such as beamforming and multiple Ethernet ports.

And, while the TalkTalk Wi-Fi Hub is designed to deliver a performance boost for TalkTalk customers, it can also be bought separately and used regardless of your ISP.

Price and availability

The TalkTalk Wi-Fi Hub sells for £120 in the UK. This is a fair bit cheaper than the extremely fast and feature-packed TP-Link Archer C5400 v2, and cheaper than mesh Wi-Fi devices such as the Netgear Orbi.

Perhaps its biggest competitor is from TalkTalk’s rival ISP, BT – it offers the BT Smart Hub, which it bills as offering ‘the UK’s most powerful Wi-Fi signal compared to routers from other major broadband providers’, and which retails for £129.99.

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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac