FloorPizza
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Yesterday, I had CenturyLink install 1 gigabit up/down fiber internet to my home. I was ecstatic, right up until I looked at the stats on the bottom of the Technicolor C2000T router they hooked up; the WiFi in this box is .n. Unbelievable that they would supply a .n box for a gig fiber connection.
I removed the C2000T and replaced it with my Netgear Nighthawk R7000 (it is setup to do the PPPoE login for the fiber connection). Searching around the web, I've found many sources saying that you will hit a cap of around 500Mbps across the WAN port with this router. I can confirm that. I am maxing out at 500 up/down with the R7000. So I'm cutting my total internet speed in half.
I'm looking to replace the R7000 with a box that can handle the full 1Gbps internet speed. I'd like good .ac WiFi performance, as well. I've looked at the RT-AC87U, but understand that it has reliability issues on the 5ghz band.
Can someone offer me some advice on what routers I should look into that can handle my internet speed and provide good .ac WiFi?
I removed the C2000T and replaced it with my Netgear Nighthawk R7000 (it is setup to do the PPPoE login for the fiber connection). Searching around the web, I've found many sources saying that you will hit a cap of around 500Mbps across the WAN port with this router. I can confirm that. I am maxing out at 500 up/down with the R7000. So I'm cutting my total internet speed in half.
I'm looking to replace the R7000 with a box that can handle the full 1Gbps internet speed. I'd like good .ac WiFi performance, as well. I've looked at the RT-AC87U, but understand that it has reliability issues on the 5ghz band.
Can someone offer me some advice on what routers I should look into that can handle my internet speed and provide good .ac WiFi?
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