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Champion - but don't be stuck. Say the word and one will be in the post quick-smart.

 

I too was a Netgear owner in the past, as well as having DLink kit also - - however, my recent overhaul has almost exclusively been with TP-Link, and I have to say their kit seems to be the mutts nuts so far; Uber-easy to set up (their quick setup guides are actually readable!), and put bluntly they work and work well.

I have the Archer C2 AC750 which is for cable connections - - - I am working on the basis that you will have ADSL/VDSL type connections on the island (I very much doubt that you will have cable), in which case I would be inclined to look at something like this wee fellow

That is the ADSL equivalent of mine, and I am like a man lying on a railway track (chuffed to bits ) with mine. The dual band is handy, because you can if you wish get dual band dongles for selected kit (around £20 each) which not only makes them that bit faster, but it also gives you two networks in one which reduces congestion

 

To be fair @Sheal, even their cheaper single band models will be pretty good - I just know how much of a hammering I have given my new router with multiple devices as well as with access restrictions and parental controls and it hasn't as much as coughed. Three year warranty on most (if not all) of TP-Link kit seals the deal for me - - - they seem to genuinely believe in their product

 

Champion news @Sheal - especially the free bit

Now't wrong with a Netgear router either - one of the top three brands as far as I am concerned, and nice kit.

Some of the internal components in routers often run quite hot due to the switching speeds etc, so they are not unknown for turning their toes to the sky.

If you need any more help, just holler

 

The perfect test - loads of throughput in both directions. I have a feeling that you will be fine now

 

And there is even more information in that post than you might even know - - points right back to DNS lookup, as I first guessed. I reckon, when the server has been moved, your DNS lookup has been looking at the old address first and then been being redirected (flaky as hell for want of a better way of putting it) - by clearing your favourites, the address is being looked up 'from scratch' and is now connecting directly with GC at its new home and not going via the old address first.