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Posted: 5/25/2016 6:58:47 PM EDT
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The router you buy will clearly label it's max speed capabilities.
Just make sure you buy 1GB. Other than that you will receive a media converter to plug your router into, then from there it's pretty much standard operating procedures from there. 1GB will be more than plenty for what you've outlined and then like 1000x more. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 7:06:31 PM EDT
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How does fiber enter the home? Is it through a phone line, cable or ??
What should I look for in a router as far as range? Is there some specification or number? Its a two story house and the router will be downstairs. Also I want one primarily for gaming if it matters. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 7:12:40 PM EDT
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How does fiber enter the home? Is it through a phone line, cable or ?? What should I look for in a router as far as range? Is there some specification or number? Its a two story house and the router will be downstairs. Also I want one primarily for gaming if it matters. Some of us stuck with satellite internet and a whopping 10 gigs of data a month at 12 Mbps are grinding our teeth in rage and envy. 
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Posted: 5/25/2016 7:34:16 PM EDT
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Some of us stuck with satellite internet and a whopping 10 gigs of data a month at 12 Mbps are grinding our teeth in rage and envy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How does fiber enter the home? Is it through a phone line, cable or ?? What should I look for in a router as far as range? Is there some specification or number? Its a two story house and the router will be downstairs. Also I want one primarily for gaming if it matters. Some of us stuck with satellite internet and a whopping 10 gigs of data a month at 12 Mbps are grinding our teeth in rage and envy. i think all executives for all big tech companies should have to live with capped bandwith for several months so they quit thinking designing everything with unlimited VERY high speed internet in mind Brian |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 7:47:28 PM EDT
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Satellite...yep...plus its prime time congestion. I can almost tolerate the 12mbps during business hours/school hours, but when the commuters get home from their day jobs, bandwidth is gone. This is my only complaint after leaving the city and moving to the country. Crazy thing is, they have fiber internet just 12 miles up the road.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 8:20:50 PM EDT
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How does fiber enter the home? Is it through a phone line, cable or ?? What should I look for in a router as far as range? Is there some specification or number? Its a two story house and the router will be downstairs. Also I want one primarily for gaming if it matters. Typically GPON is a fiber drop from an aerial line on the pole down to what is called an ONT. This ONT has the fiber connector in it, and the connectivity is broken out on to an Ethernet port. Then the edge device is usually addressed via DHCP or PPPoE. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 8:26:31 PM EDT
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my question is do you really have fiber in the house? because at&t tries to say that but it is only for new construction. older places just have fiber to the local box and from there its threw copper phone lines.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 8:37:08 PM EDT
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Typically GPON is a fiber drop from an aerial line on the pole down to what is called an ONT. This ONT has the fiber connector in it, and the connectivity is broken out on to an Ethernet port. Then the edge device is usually addressed via DHCP or PPPoE. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How does fiber enter the home? Is it through a phone line, cable or ?? What should I look for in a router as far as range? Is there some specification or number? Its a two story house and the router will be downstairs. Also I want one primarily for gaming if it matters. Typically GPON is a fiber drop from an aerial line on the pole down to what is called an ONT. This ONT has the fiber connector in it, and the connectivity is broken out on to an Ethernet port. Then the edge device is usually addressed via DHCP or PPPoE. Can cat5e be used? |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 8:38:32 PM EDT
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my question is do you really have fiber in the house? because at&t tries to say that but it is only for new construction. older places just have fiber to the local box and from there its threw copper phone lines. I dont think so. I have cat5e and tv cable in my boxes. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 8:41:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How does fiber enter the home? Is it through a phone line, cable or ?? What should I look for in a router as far as range? Is there some specification or number? Its a two story house and the router will be downstairs. Also I want one primarily for gaming if it matters. If you have money to burn AC5300 Nighthawk X8 Tri-Band WiFi Router  Edit: Any AC router with gigabit ports would be good to go. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:37:11 PM EDT
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I was looking at the nighthawk 1900 but it appears to my novice eye as a older model.
If there is something else that will suit my needs for less I'm all ears. Are dlink routers any good. By any good I mean not a fail prone pos. |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 9:44:42 PM EDT
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I was looking at the nighthawk 1900 but it appears to my novice eye as a older model. If there is something else that will suit my needs for less I'm all ears. Are dlink routers any good. By any good I mean not a fail prone pos. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320174&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo |
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Posted: 5/25/2016 10:41:26 PM EDT
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while the asus seams like a good router it seems like it doesn't have the umph to use the full gig download per this table
source : http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32239-ac1900-first-look-netgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u?start=1 |
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Posted: 5/26/2016 10:07:41 AM EDT
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I'm using an old Asus N66 with Merlin and getting ~900 Mbps WAN throughput
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Posted: 5/27/2016 10:00:28 AM EDT
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Does TP-link make a decent router?
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Posted: 5/30/2016 10:04:14 PM EDT
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while the asus seams like a good router it seems like it doesn't have the umph to use the full gig download per this table http://i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv344/bobfig/rout_zps5agpzjtt.jpg source : http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32239-ac1900-first-look-netgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u?start=1 I wouldn't worry about it. How many people are really going to notice the difference between ~800Mbps and 1000MBps? You aren't going to do any better until you spend ~$300+ for a router and event those models have various issues. AC routers are currently a crapshoot. Nothing like the Linksys wrt-54g or asus rt-n66u currently exists for that class of routers. Op, get the Asus RT-AC86U and don't worry about not getting 100% out of your internet connection. I'm fairly certain you will be satisfied. |
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Posted: 5/31/2016 10:54:40 PM EDT
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I actually ended up buying a linksys wrt1900acs. I hope it was a intelligent purchase, seems to have good range and great reviews.
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Posted: 5/31/2016 11:48:53 PM EDT
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I actually ended up buying a linksys wrt1900acs. I hope it was a intelligent purchase, seems to have good range and great reviews. To be blunt, you paid more for a worse product. While short range wireless (5Ghz) is good, longer range wireless (2.4Ghz) is rather mediocre. You did read the smallnetbuilder review of the Limksys, right? |
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Posted: 6/1/2016 10:37:16 AM EDT
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Satellite...yep...plus its prime time congestion. I can almost tolerate the 12mbps during business hours/school hours, but when the commuters get home from their day jobs, bandwidth is gone. This is my only complaint after leaving the city and moving to the country. Crazy thing is, they have fiber internet just 12 miles up the road. Comcast has a connection 2 miles from my house and ATT has U-verse 2 miles north of me. Comcast won't expand due to lower house per mile density, and AT&T's perspective on upgrading our circuit is very similar. I get the impression they'd rather drop the land line service completely in my area. Not many options in the middle of nowhere. |
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