Cord cutting
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@mik said in Cord cutting:
The nice thing is all our TV is now wireless.
I hear that.
My TV's and media units look nice and tidy. Not a wire out of place in the house. I got 3 of those mesh routers in my house - full wifi coverage.
I'm only getting 30% of my max speed in most places in the house - but my max speed is so high that it makes zero practical difference to me.
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I get 3-5 Mbps.
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2 ½ months out, it remains pretty good. Download speeds are almost always >350. This morning, I was up to 500. In the 2 ½ months, I had a few (<7) days with slow speeds. Probably slow enough to affect streaming, but fast enough for routine browsing.
I've had to restart the gateway once because of a dropped connection.
Otherwise, it's been fast, robust and cheap.
My only criticism is that the gateway has only one ethernet "out" port. If you have several things that need your network (like a Phillips Hue hub), you're gonna need a router - which I have.
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@george-k said in Cord cutting:
My only criticism is that the gateway has only one ethernet "out" port. If you have several things that need your network (like a Phillips Hue hub), you're gonna need a router - which I have.
George, you need one of these:
It turns a single ethernet port into multiple ports (think of it like an extension bar for ethernet)
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@xenon thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep that in mind for the future should I need it.
I had a router with my other service, so I just repurposed that.
But...what you linked to is basically, just like a USB hub?
(I've wondered about "ethernet switches" for a while)
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@george-k said in Cord cutting:
But...what you linked to is basically, just like a USB hub?
Yes, essentially.
You feed the ethernet from your wireless gateway into one of the ports on the switch, then all of the other ports become ethernet jacks for the same network. No software or hooking it up to a computer.
