<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Dan</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 15, 2016 4:51 PM, "Matthew Campbell" <<a href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I picked up a used Cisco professional router on eBay for about the<br>
same cost as a good Linksys runs new. For the learning experience<br>
alone it was worth every penny.<br>
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Matt<br>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Claude Felizardo <<a href="mailto:cafelizardo@gmail.com">cafelizardo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The TimeWarner bundle promo ended so the rate went up so I decided to<br>
> give Giggle Fiber a try. That's giggle with an I, not two O's. They<br>
> bought out Champion cable in Arcadia/Monrovia so it's fiber to a node<br>
> somewhere in the the neighborhood then coax to your home. With TWC I<br>
> was getting 80-90 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, obviously capped for what<br>
> I was paying but we'd get drop outs constantly and the speeds would<br>
> vary so much depending on time of day. Giggle claims on their web<br>
> site that most users get over 300 and when I talked to them last year,<br>
> they said because they do not offer cable TV and had fewer subscribers<br>
> this meant they had plenty of capacity.<br>
><br>
> I had the installer pull a brand new cable and run it to my wiring<br>
> closet because I was keeping TWC for TV programming and phone for now<br>
> -- will try asterisk so Paul's talk was timely.<br>
><br>
> Using Giggle, the upload is hitting 20 Mbps up but down is less than<br>
> TWC at around 50-70 Mbps which is a far cry from 200 Mbps so I was<br>
> disappointed. Now most of my equipment is 10/100 with cat5 home run<br>
> to a wiring closet where I have the routers installed (TWC and Giggle)<br>
> which can then connect to a switch in the closet then to various drops<br>
> in the house including two with switches because I have more equipment<br>
> at those locations.<br>
><br>
> I did upgrade one of the switches to a TP-Link SG108E which is an<br>
> 8-port 10/100/1000 smart (web) switch with speed indicator LEDs<br>
> (10/100/1000). It has a menu option to test the connections and it<br>
> will report cable lengths in meters as well as confirm connection<br>
> speed. Now the newest router I have is a TP-Link WDR3600 with N600 or<br>
> an older Netgear WNR200 both of which I was using when I still had<br>
> DSL. Both have 4 gigabit ports but no indicators lights. Measured<br>
> cable distance from remote switch to closet is 18m which is about what<br>
> I expected.<br>
><br>
> For testing WiFi, the only AC device we haver is my son's smartphone,<br>
> everything else is G or N speed. For wired devices, the only thing<br>
> where we could run some kind of speed test was the Xbox One and the<br>
> best speed we saw was 140 Mbs down and that was when we connecting the<br>
> Xbox directly to the modem and cycle power so it will give up an IP.<br>
> Otherwise going through the WDR3600, we're getting usually slower than<br>
> TWC for download but upload is much better which will be good for<br>
> trying to backup to the cloud.<br>
><br>
> Now when I ordered Giggle Fiber, they suggested I get at least an<br>
> AC1900 router, the installer pretty much said the same. I could see<br>
> doing that if we had more AC devices but since most of our equipment<br>
> is only N speed, I was hoping that my wired computers would see a nice<br>
> speed increase but I'm wondering if my older router just can't push<br>
> the data fast enough. Is this really the case? The TWC rented Arris<br>
> router has 4 gigabit ports and is doing better than the older router.<br>
> I have not tried the WNR2000 yet because the specs say its only<br>
> capable of N300 wireless.<br>
><br>
> So does anyone have suggestions for replacing my old router? I may<br>
> need to pick up another gigabit switch for the other room if replacing<br>
> the router makes a difference. And the speeds has seemed to get better<br>
> since the first day - do modems need to be tuned?<br>
><br>
> Claude<br>
><br>
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