- Jan 30, 2003
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I just realized the amount of stuff that I don't know about networking can't even fit in my 2500 square foot home. Was going to put this in networking but it's more support based I suppose. Please explain answer these questions to me like I'm a 5 year old. Thanks.
We have 50/5 with Cox here in New England and I'm just not happy with performance. At any given time, I'm sure we've got 5-7 devices on (or more) but I'm sure some have to drop off because there's no way we have enough bandwith for everything. We've got 2 firesticks, Wii, 2 Laptops, 3 tablets, and we switch our phones to wifi calling. Speed test is generally all the same: 53.97/6.9 w/ 20ms ping.
So the symptoms are we get that grainy buffering on netflix, we get "unable to connect to network" errors with the firesticks/chromebooks, we get frequent drops where we have to reconnect, we get slow speeds in general. Cox swapped out our modem a few months ago and drops were admittedly better but it's pretty bad again now.
So in no particular order:
1) How good is my current router? (Cisco Dpc 3825)
2) I don't understand enough about this. Would I benefit from a router updgrade if my speed stays the same? Like for instance if I went from a $50 router to this thing here: http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-Tri-Band-Gigabit-R8000/dp/B00KWHMR6G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446913037&sr=8-1&keywords=netgear+nighthawk+r8000
3) Should I look for a repeater or signal booster?
4) Would going up to 70mbps be worth it to me?
5) Lastly, as an aside, I'm renting my stupid router from Cox which is a mistake in itself. Is a D-Link Dir-615e3 which I have sitting here a box a comparable router or a significant backslide?
6) The netgear powerline adapters seem pretty cool, would I benefit from one of those?
Any other suggestions?!
Thanks again!
We have 50/5 with Cox here in New England and I'm just not happy with performance. At any given time, I'm sure we've got 5-7 devices on (or more) but I'm sure some have to drop off because there's no way we have enough bandwith for everything. We've got 2 firesticks, Wii, 2 Laptops, 3 tablets, and we switch our phones to wifi calling. Speed test is generally all the same: 53.97/6.9 w/ 20ms ping.
So the symptoms are we get that grainy buffering on netflix, we get "unable to connect to network" errors with the firesticks/chromebooks, we get frequent drops where we have to reconnect, we get slow speeds in general. Cox swapped out our modem a few months ago and drops were admittedly better but it's pretty bad again now.
So in no particular order:
1) How good is my current router? (Cisco Dpc 3825)
2) I don't understand enough about this. Would I benefit from a router updgrade if my speed stays the same? Like for instance if I went from a $50 router to this thing here: http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-Tri-Band-Gigabit-R8000/dp/B00KWHMR6G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446913037&sr=8-1&keywords=netgear+nighthawk+r8000
3) Should I look for a repeater or signal booster?
4) Would going up to 70mbps be worth it to me?
5) Lastly, as an aside, I'm renting my stupid router from Cox which is a mistake in itself. Is a D-Link Dir-615e3 which I have sitting here a box a comparable router or a significant backslide?
6) The netgear powerline adapters seem pretty cool, would I benefit from one of those?
Any other suggestions?!
Thanks again!