Paul in Seattle
New Around Here
Centurylink just recently installed their 1Gbe fiber service with an actiontec c3000a router. I was seeing an average of 200 up/down on wireless and roughly 250 on wired, so decided to buy this: Netgear RAX75. The wired/wireless performance was even worse hitting roughly 150down/ but 430 up on wireless (speedtest.net).
After reading some forums I realized the chipset didn’t agree with the PPPoE credentials, and after their tech support threw in the towel and suggested I return the router, I took the advice of somebody on the forum and picked up Asus RT-AC5400. Actually worse speeds at 146 down/195 up on wireless. Currently, I’m awaiting advanced tech support to call me to walk through the settings, though I’m getting prepared to try something different.
Curious, if I were to put in a https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-10x/ to handle all wired traffic as well as PPPoE and VLAN configuration, is it safe to assume I'd see a pretty dramatic improvement in wired traffic? If I simply plugged in the current Asus AC5400, would the speed of the wireless improve?
A colleague strongly recommended the Synology RT2600AC. A user on Reddit suggests it gets pretty impressive performance with the Centurylink Fiber.
Alternatively, was considering the AmpliFi Alien Wifi 6 by Ubiquiti as the specs seem pretty badass, though not sure I need to spend that type of money.
After reading some forums I realized the chipset didn’t agree with the PPPoE credentials, and after their tech support threw in the towel and suggested I return the router, I took the advice of somebody on the forum and picked up Asus RT-AC5400. Actually worse speeds at 146 down/195 up on wireless. Currently, I’m awaiting advanced tech support to call me to walk through the settings, though I’m getting prepared to try something different.
Curious, if I were to put in a https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-10x/ to handle all wired traffic as well as PPPoE and VLAN configuration, is it safe to assume I'd see a pretty dramatic improvement in wired traffic? If I simply plugged in the current Asus AC5400, would the speed of the wireless improve?
A colleague strongly recommended the Synology RT2600AC. A user on Reddit suggests it gets pretty impressive performance with the Centurylink Fiber.
Alternatively, was considering the AmpliFi Alien Wifi 6 by Ubiquiti as the specs seem pretty badass, though not sure I need to spend that type of money.
