Posted: 4/17/2014 6:14:31 AM EDT
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I'm paying 70 dollars a month for second fastest internet that time warner is supposed to have. I believe the shit router they gave me is the cause for my slow streaming on a smart TV.
I need a recommendation on a good wireless router that will fully utilize the speed I'm paying for. |
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I'm paying 70 dollars a month for second fastest internet that time warner is supposed to have. I believe the shit router they gave me is the cause for my slow streaming on a smart TV. I need a recommendation on a good wireless router that will fully utilize the speed I'm paying for. You want a recommendation get rid of Time Warner they suck. |
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I'm paying 70 dollars a month for second fastest internet that time warner is supposed to have. I believe the shit router they gave me is the cause for my slow streaming on a smart TV. I need a recommendation on a good wireless router that will fully utilize the speed I'm paying for. You want a recommendation get rid of Time Warner they suck. I've had absolutely no problems with them, other than this router. |
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I'm paying 70 dollars a month for second fastest internet that time warner is supposed to have. I believe the shit router they gave me is the cause for my slow streaming on a smart TV. I need a recommendation on a good wireless router that will fully utilize the speed I'm paying for. You want a recommendation get rid of Time Warner they suck. I've had absolutely no problems with them, other than this router. I've had nothing but problems with them for years. Now I have verizon it's the best. |
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I'm paying 70 dollars a month for second fastest internet that time warner is supposed to have. I believe the shit router they gave me is the cause for my slow streaming on a smart TV. I need a recommendation on a good wireless router that will fully utilize the speed I'm paying for. I'm having similar problems...........waiting for the computer guys to chime in....... |
| I bought a Medialink router off of Amazon for about $50 to replace a Netgear that was getting wonky. It's cheap, works great, and easy to set up. No issues streaming Netflix, Amazon, etc. After you buy it, the Medialink customer service people email you twice to make sure everything is working ok with the router. |
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just keep in mind that the REAL speed of wireless isn't what you see in the marketing material. The more wireless hosts you have associated to a single AP the lower the wireless transmission rate. Wired is always better performance than wireless.
If you have a big, bad, expensive pipe sitting out there and you're limited to 26Mbps access rate because of your wireless signal, you're effectively rate limiting yourself. I wired my whole house with Cat5e drops, 2 per room minimum and I have 3 Wireless access points inside. I follow the rule, if wired available, wired first, then if wireless, spread the load out as much as possible among the 3 APs. If you search the internet you'll find a lot of sites with the same kind of info: Wireless Speeds EDIT: Sorry, I have a Cisco ASA 5505 with the Security Plus license as my Internet Firewall, a Cisco 871 router acting only as an 802.11g access point, a Cisco 1200 AP, and a cheap Cisco LinkSys 802.11a/b/g AP. |
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I use dual band Netgear routers at home. And of course Cisco WAPs at work.
I have had good luck with the Netgear WNDR4300 If you have the money, go with the Asus RT-AC66U or similar. Edit - the client has to be capable of the N or AC technology to achieve the higher speed. I don't know what your TV wireless card would support. Also, your wifi may be capable of running 450Mbps but that is internal traffic only (example, computer to computer file transfer) and not going to help your internet connection speeds. |
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I use dual band Netgear routers at home. And of course Cisco WAPs at work. I have had good luck with the Netgear WNDR4300 If you have the money, go with the Asus RT-AC66U or similar. Edit - the client has to be capable of the N or AC technology to achieve the higher speed. I don't know what your TV wireless card would support. Also, your wifi may be capable of running 450Mbps but that is internal traffic only (example, computer to computer file transfer) and not going to help your internet connection speeds. I think it's more of signal strength issue. Because it seems to drop the signal a lot. My laptop never has this problem, just the smart tv. It's a samsung 55 inch |
| If you don't mind the price tag... Linksys just released a new WRT1900AC that is supposed to be the new hotness. |
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What router did they give you? and how far is the router from the TV? Quoted:
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I think it's more of signal strength issue. Because it seems to drop the signal a lot. My laptop never has this problem, just the smart tv. It's a samsung 55 inch What router did they give you? and how far is the router from the TV? I'm not home, and I don't remember what router it is, I'm pretty sure it's an Arris of some kind. And the router is probably 20 feet away from the tv. |
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Have you checked signal to noise ratio? You may be dropping packets and it won't be readily visible to you. I had bad phone lines and I also had a router that was limiting bandwidth. Could be multiple issues.
My latest Cisco router has been flawless. Do some speed tests and make them provide the service you are paying for. |
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Yeah, run some speedtests from your laptop (run it a few times, maybe even at different times over a couple of days) and average the results. Compare with what you are paying for from TW. I use Speedtest.net
If you have a smart phone, there are wifi analyzer apps. This is the one I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer There are also some available for install on a laptop. However, if the TV is only like 20-30 feet away, it should not be a signal issue unless going through something concrete walls...and you should have issues with the laptop as well. |
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I'm not home, and I don't remember what router it is, I'm pretty sure it's an Arris of some kind. And the router is probably 20 feet away from the tv. If it's only 20 ft it shouldn't be a signal strength issue. When you get home go to 192.168.100.1 on your laptop. There is probably a signal or diagnostics tab that will give you info about your connection. Signal to Noise Ratio and stuff like that. Then let us know what it says. That is just to make sure you are getting a good connection from Time Warner to your modem. Then we can check the router to TV. ETA: as said above run http://www.pingtest.net/ a few times. |
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Are you running wireless to your TV?
GET CABLED UP. Wireless and TV is not a good combination at all. No reason not to have it wired up directly via network cable. You can have the best wireless router for consumers and it's still going to suck ass, especially if you have several TV's. TV's aren't exactly high quality when it comes to wireless throughput. |
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Have you checked signal to noise ratio? You may be dropping packets and it won't be readily visible to you. I had bad phone lines and I also had a router that was limiting bandwidth. Could be multiple issues. My latest Cisco router has been flawless. Do some speed tests and make them provide the service you are paying for. Yeah, most of my problems when I was wired were due to infrastructure. Charter ran a new wire from the street (I have a long run). I also had two splitters involved, now I'm down to one. Every now and then I'd have to either disconnect the splitter I could access (other one was under the house) or get a new one. I finally had them run another connection into the house separate from the two TVs. Then my Ethernet card crapped out so I hooked up a Netgear N300 wireless router and got a Netgear USB wireless gizmo. I've run Cat5 under the house but I've not gotten another board. The wireless is running good (former cisco router wouldn't reach to my computer). And the TV service, for the most part, isn't crapping out from time to time. 20 feet from the TV to router, you have other issues. |
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Grab an Asus RTN-66U and install the Tomato firmware on it... still about the best consumer grade router you can get. Please note that if you do the above, be sure to by the 66U version as some other versions use chip sets that aren't compatible with Tomato. You might want to check to see if Tomato has an SSL fix for your router. I just installed the fixed firmware last night. |
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I'm paying 70 dollars a month for second fastest internet that time warner is supposed to have. I believe the shit router they gave me is the cause for my slow streaming on a smart TV. I need a recommendation on a good wireless router that will fully utilize the speed I'm paying for. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320091 |