WiFi routers have improved a lot!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I recently bought a new WiFi router since my previous one got somewhat unstable after a firmware update and I realized it was about 8 years old at that point.

The old one was a decent model at the time and the new one was hardly high-end. We have a 3000+ square foot house with two stories, and the router is in an upstairs corner. At the opposite downstairs corner (as far and as many walls as you can get away from the router), speeds were single Mbps or failure to connect at all with the old router.

The new one gets 150Mbps in that corner, and almost everywhere else it gets the full 300Mbps that our cable downlink is, so I’d have to find a way other than fast.com to measure it (if I cared, which I don’t because for anything WiFi related 300Mbps is plenty fast for a while).

If you use WiFi and haven’t upgraded recently, it might be very worth it.

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I agree. My old modem/router combo was gradually driving me insane with wifi single digit Mbps speeds, and constant disconnects/reconnects, or disconnects that would require a reset. All this, despite great pains taken to locate it as centrally possible. Trying to watch Youtube videos ( or streaming movies ) on my smart TV was aggravating as hell, what with the freezes/stops/starts/stutters/low resolutions coming and going.

Finally asked them to send a tech over, who verified their was nothing wrong with the outside lines coming in, and swapped out my old unit with new ones ( separate modem & router ) and now I have 350 Mbps everywhere. Stuff works great now.