2927

I saw that I'm well within my return window. But this DrayTek router is NOT going back!My old DrayTek was doing well, but a recent outage by my broadband supplier that lasted from a Friday until Monday morning had me trying to bully my old DrayTek into taking my iPhone with a 5G connection on it. It didn't really workout that well. The old DrayTek, a Vigor2820, could take two WAN connections but one of them had to be an ADSL and the other an ethernet type connection.I wasn't able to do my work during this period of Internet outage and that justified my search for a backup broadband solution. AND a new router that would take two ethernet WAN connections and do an automatic failover so that if the primary broadband should fail, the backup broadband should work.My primary broadband comes in over the telephone line and is a fibre connection. So I wanted my secondary connection to turn up using a different method, but I didn't fancy paying the costs of a cable type connection. Remembering that I had a 'spare' 5G SIM, I decided to go for a 5G router as my backup broadband. That SIM would be relatively cheap to run in the background, and I can share extra data to it from another connection if any outage would be prolonged.So I went for the ZTE 5G CPE MC801A as my 5G router, and I'll get around to reviewing that later.This new DrayTek Vigor2927 takes on both WAN sources in a fantastic way! It was easy enough to set up, and I had initial hiccups in doing this and this was largely because in my process, I'd left the old Vigor router as still connected to the network. Those routers were having a punch up in the background but order was restored when I disconnected the old router.And now, whilst watching a video online, I'm able to test failover by manually disconnecting the primary broadband. The video kept on playing for about 30 secs. Then I got the buffering spinner thing for about 20 secs or so. And then the video continued to play! Brilliant :-)Come on the next primary broadband downtime! I'm likely not to notice it now.Another huge benefit to switching out the router is that the old router wasn't able to cope much with the faster fibre connections and so watching videos sometimes involved a bit of buffering. I imagined that the problem was at the other end. It wasn't. The new router sorted that out and buffering is more or less, a thing of the past :-)

I used this to swop out my Draytek Vigor 2925 as the older model has a throughput cap of 300mbps on its firewall over wired ethernet which was preventing full passthrough of my recently upgraded full fibre connection. As you can see from the before and after screenshots I am now getting full 900+mbps speeds at my wired ethernet sockets. I use a mix of Vigor 902, 903, and 906 access points with this wired router to broadcast the Wifi signal and I am getting 300 to 550mbps over wifi which I think is excellent!Please note this wired K model does not have built in wifi capability - I use it as the root for my network instead of the ISP provided router and the APs provide wifi. If you want built in wifi capability you will need to pick the AC (AC1300), AX (wifi 6 AX3000), or the LAC model (AC1300 with $g/LTE modem).

I have been using Draytek router for years. Till now Draytek 2925 without wireless feeding two broadband connections as load balancing to a Tp link eap wired mesh system which worked flawlessly for last few years.Recently upgraded one broadband connection to virgin media 1gb fibre and 2925 could reach about 300mb which was still good enough but not using the full potential of 1gb connection.Upgraded to latest 2927 wired model. Changed settings from load balance to failover with virgin media as active line and slower second broadband connection as failover. Separated LAN ports of router to keep wired desktop and other stuff separate from WiFi devices (can easily do this in router settings) and connected to link eap to this new router. Had old ASU’s routers (in Amish setup)which got connected to another lan port on 2927.Now I have two separate mesh systems connected to 2927. Wired connections give full 1gb speed and wireless much much faster.Best part is the failover setup. If main internet connection drops there is no lag and 2927 switches over to standby line in less than a second. Which means if you are on a teams video call or watching Netflix there is no drop in connection.With lots of IoT devices and streaming on several devices you will not notice buffering or a connection drop off.A brilliant piece of kit. Highly recommended. Not too difficult to set up even for the first time users of Draytek routers.

It's Draytek and I have a few of their products and they just go on and on.This is not a beginners product and is best described as semi professional. So if you know the difference between an MTU and a BTU then go for it. Although saying that you could just plug it in and it would be a good replacement for the rubbish that your ISP provides. This one doesn't have WiFi built in so make sure you buy the right version.