Nick Mullins
New Around Here
We all fall in love with a piece of hardware. They become our favorites..... we see them every day. They are there first thing in the morning and when we go to bed at night. Such was the case with my beloved RT-N56U. For 8 years it faithfully delivered por...er... gamin...er.... educational YouTube videos. That was until lightening killed both it and my modem. I know feel hollow inside. My faithful friend.... dead. Gone. I wrapped it's now lifeless husk in th best pin-feed form paper I had and gently placed it in the recycling bin, so that the circle of life can continue.
The cable company swooped in and took care of restoring service and were kind enough to supply a ARRIS that is a modem/router combo. As a modem it seems competent. As a router...... er.... not so much. Where I had >1ms response time wired to the ASUS, my wired response time on both the Killer NIC and Intel NIC on my motherboard now ranges from 1 to 13 ms (!) to my ~inside~ IP address. It's even worse across the router fabric to the public IP. I thought maybe the lightning had damaged the patch cable. Bought a new one, same story.
For giggles, I plugged in my ASUS USB-N53 wireless adapter.... I actually got better response times! (2 to 5ms)
I have never, ever had a a response time be <1ms to the inside IP address, even when crossing old unmanaged desktop switches.
This brings me around to the ultimate question. What would be the best replacement?
Here is the setup:
Gaming PC - wired
Old tablet running on the 2.4 Ghz band for reading and watching videos and Netflix
HTC phone on the 5 Ghz band for pretty much the same thing
TCL 4K Smart TV on the 5Ghz band. (although throwing a network cable on it would be no issue)
I will never have a any form of gaming consoles, and I wouldn't be adding any high tech home management systems or alarms. I have considered an Alexa though and an updated tablet.
As you can see, my needs are pretty basic. I don't need something that looks like an NSA spy gadget with 27 antennas with 10gbs throughput. I tried a Linksys WRT32X but the performance to external websites was no better than the ISP-provided router, so I boxed it up and sent it back. (BTW, don't believe a word of the Killer NIC hype)
I am looking for something that:
a) Gives me good response times for gaming as that is my primary use for the internet (yes I know that is situational, but having your router add 15ms or more is stupid)
b) Gives me the ability to have QoS if I decide I ever need it
c) Needs to have at least 1 USB port (2 would be better)
d) Something in a reasonable price range. Say..... >$150 give or take.
e) It just works.
I have scoured, researched, prayed, made burnt offerings (don't tell my neighbor though, they might figured out what happened to their annoying cat) .... still I seem to be chasing my tail.
Need some recommendations guys.....
Harlech
The cable company swooped in and took care of restoring service and were kind enough to supply a ARRIS that is a modem/router combo. As a modem it seems competent. As a router...... er.... not so much. Where I had >1ms response time wired to the ASUS, my wired response time on both the Killer NIC and Intel NIC on my motherboard now ranges from 1 to 13 ms (!) to my ~inside~ IP address. It's even worse across the router fabric to the public IP. I thought maybe the lightning had damaged the patch cable. Bought a new one, same story.
For giggles, I plugged in my ASUS USB-N53 wireless adapter.... I actually got better response times! (2 to 5ms)
I have never, ever had a a response time be <1ms to the inside IP address, even when crossing old unmanaged desktop switches.
This brings me around to the ultimate question. What would be the best replacement?
Here is the setup:
Gaming PC - wired
Old tablet running on the 2.4 Ghz band for reading and watching videos and Netflix
HTC phone on the 5 Ghz band for pretty much the same thing
TCL 4K Smart TV on the 5Ghz band. (although throwing a network cable on it would be no issue)
I will never have a any form of gaming consoles, and I wouldn't be adding any high tech home management systems or alarms. I have considered an Alexa though and an updated tablet.
As you can see, my needs are pretty basic. I don't need something that looks like an NSA spy gadget with 27 antennas with 10gbs throughput. I tried a Linksys WRT32X but the performance to external websites was no better than the ISP-provided router, so I boxed it up and sent it back. (BTW, don't believe a word of the Killer NIC hype)
I am looking for something that:
a) Gives me good response times for gaming as that is my primary use for the internet (yes I know that is situational, but having your router add 15ms or more is stupid)
b) Gives me the ability to have QoS if I decide I ever need it
c) Needs to have at least 1 USB port (2 would be better)
d) Something in a reasonable price range. Say..... >$150 give or take.
e) It just works.
I have scoured, researched, prayed, made burnt offerings (don't tell my neighbor though, they might figured out what happened to their annoying cat) .... still I seem to be chasing my tail.
Need some recommendations guys.....
Harlech