[SGVLUG] Recommendations for > 100 MBbs routers

[Dan Buthusiem]

SmallNetBuilder's review of Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter Lite sold me on it, since
it was able to hold 950 Mbps per port at a $100 price point. My Netgears
aren't supposed to be able to hold much more than about 500 Mbps per port
WAN to LAN, so I only use them as APs. It seems WiFi goes obsolete much
faster than routers and switches, which is why I keep the access points as
separate boxes from the rest of my network - having to take down my entire
network for a different wireless box is annoying.

I've got a dual WAN router I'm due to migrate off of soon, since it's
nearing its EOL. If you'd like to borrow the ErLite3, I've got a spare you
can play with for a bit. I haven't noticed anything else that beats it for
its price point. Their Unifi APs look very tempting, too.

As far as your modem question, there's nothing you should need to tune. I
would look into its statistics page to see your speed profile, negotiated
rate (the fastest speed your modem can manage to the node, based on line
conditions), and your attenuation / noise. This way, you'll be able to see
if your speed issues are due to poor line conditions or possible
oversubscription of the node.

Dan

On Aug 15, 2016 4:51 PM, "Matthew Campbell" <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I picked up a used Cisco professional router on eBay for about the
> same cost as a good Linksys runs new.  For the learning experience
> alone it was worth every penny.
>
> Matt
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The TimeWarner bundle promo ended so the rate went up so I decided to
> > give Giggle Fiber a try.  That's giggle with an I, not two O's.  They
> > bought out Champion cable in Arcadia/Monrovia so it's fiber to a node
> > somewhere in the the neighborhood then coax to your home.  With TWC I
> > was getting 80-90 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, obviously capped for what
> > I was paying but we'd get drop outs constantly and the speeds would
> > vary so much depending on time of day.  Giggle claims on their web
> > site that most users get over 300 and when I talked to them last year,
> > they said because they do not offer cable TV and had fewer subscribers
> > this meant they had plenty of capacity.
> >
> > I had the installer pull a brand new cable and run it to my wiring
> > closet because I was keeping TWC for TV programming and phone for now
> > -- will try asterisk so Paul's talk was timely.
> >
> > Using Giggle, the upload is hitting 20 Mbps up but down is less than
> > TWC at around 50-70 Mbps which is a far cry from 200 Mbps so I was
> > disappointed.  Now most of my equipment is 10/100 with cat5 home run
> > to a wiring closet where I have the routers installed (TWC and Giggle)
> > which can then connect to a switch in the closet then to various drops
> > in the house including two with switches because I have more equipment
> > at those locations.
> >
> > I did upgrade one of the switches to a TP-Link SG108E which is an
> > 8-port 10/100/1000 smart (web) switch with speed indicator LEDs
> > (10/100/1000).  It has a menu option to test the connections and it
> > will report cable lengths in meters as well as confirm connection
> > speed.  Now the newest router I have is a TP-Link WDR3600 with N600 or
> > an older Netgear WNR200 both of which I was using when I still had
> > DSL.   Both have 4 gigabit ports but no indicators lights.  Measured
> > cable distance from remote switch to closet is 18m which is about what
> > I expected.
> >
> > For testing WiFi, the only AC device we haver is my son's smartphone,
> > everything else is G or N speed.  For wired devices, the only thing
> > where we could run some kind of speed test was the Xbox One and the
> > best speed we saw was 140 Mbs down and that was when we connecting the
> > Xbox directly to the modem and cycle power so it will give up an IP.
> > Otherwise going through the WDR3600, we're getting usually slower than
> > TWC for download but upload is much better which will be good for
> > trying to backup to the cloud.
> >
> > Now when I ordered Giggle Fiber, they suggested I get at least an
> > AC1900 router, the installer pretty much said the same.  I could see
> > doing that if we had more AC devices but since most of our equipment
> > is only N speed, I was hoping that my wired computers would see a nice
> > speed increase but I'm wondering if my older router just can't push
> > the data fast enough.  Is this really the case?  The TWC rented Arris
> > router has 4 gigabit ports and is doing better than the older router.
> > I have not tried the WNR2000 yet because the specs say its only
> > capable of N300 wireless.
> >
> > So does anyone have suggestions for replacing my old router?  I may
> > need to pick up another gigabit switch for the other room if replacing
> > the router makes a difference. And the speeds has seemed to get better
> > since the first day - do modems need to be tuned?
> >
> > Claude
> >
>
>
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