TalkTalk Wi-Fi Hub

While the Wi-Fi Hub’s performance is hard to fault, the feature list is a letdown. Log into the web portal and you’ll be amazed by how little there is for you to configure and customise. You can set up port forwarding and register dynamic DNS details to access to your devices from outside of the home network but that’s pretty much it.

There’s no way to set up an isolated guest network, no support for VPNs, no AP or extender functions and, since there’s no USB socket, no file-sharing or streaming capabilities either. Nor are there any sort of built-in parental controls, to restrict what your kids are doing online and when, although some of this can be achieved online through TalkTalk’s HomeSafe service.

Since the router’s so new, it’s not unreasonable to hope that future firmware updates will add in some of those absent features. As things stand, though, this is one of the least versatile routers I’ve ever come acros