Cord cutting
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Hooked up to the router I get about 330mbps. On wireless it's more like140, which is plenty. On Spectrum I got about 200 on wireless, but I don't notice any difference.
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Just got Fioptics installed with Cincinnati Bell. Getting about 100-150 mbps download but the upload speed is nearly as fast. With Spectrum it was about 10-20% f download speed.
The nice thing is all our TV is now wireless. We have boxes, but no cable other than the internet entering the house. This is a very good thing because our cable configuration was a real Frankenstein construction. We had internet coming in one place, TV coming in on a cable that ran all the way around the back of the house and then with repeaters and splitters and stuff that had to be kept plugged in in the basement or all TV would not work. What a mess.
So far it is running flawlessly with two TVs streaming, two laptops running, two iPhones connected and two iPads.
@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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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.
@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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@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)
@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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@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)
@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.
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@copper said in Cord cutting:
T-Mobile 5g advertising is about 100 Mbps
How do you get 490 Mbps?
Just guessing - George may be lucky.
Much harder to estimate what any individual customer may get similar to a wired connection - they probably advertise a floor rather than a ceiling for a wireless connection.
Signal strength drops off exponentially with distance from the source - so guessing George lives close to a tower.
It may make sense for them to limit the speed in the future if their backhaul gets saturated.
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@copper said in Cord cutting:
T-Mobile 5g advertising is about 100 Mbps
How do you get 490 Mbps?
Just guessing - George may be lucky.
Much harder to estimate what any individual customer may get similar to a wired connection - they probably advertise a floor rather than a ceiling for a wireless connection.
Signal strength drops off exponentially with distance from the source - so guessing George lives close to a tower.
It may make sense for them to limit the speed in the future if their backhaul gets saturated.
