Subj : Re: SignalTech wifi booster -
To   : Brian Rogers
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Aug 25 2021 07:21:00

-=> Brian Rogers wrote to Nightfox <=-

 BR> Our ISP now, communistcast, supplies a router by insistance. They
 BR> throttle bandwidth by the router. You may buy a linksys or motorola
 BR> comcast modified router but it must maintain the backdoor for them to
 BR> adjust it to your account settings/bandwidth.

Around here, they're barely able to keep up with advertised speeds. They do 
keep selling their "intelligent" features of xFi, but there's no way in hell 
I want them in my network.

I'd rather bridge and have my own router in place.

I've been having stability problems with my internal network and the wifi 
drops, as well as being slower than I expected. I suspected the newer 
version of DD-WRT that I'd installed on my router.

Linksys has a neat trick on their WRT routers - it has two separate system 
images, and if it fails to boot 3 times, it switches to the other image. No 
more bricked routers.

I booted back onto the factory firmware and noticed the following:

DD-WRT:
Wired: 475 mbps
Wifi: 17 mbps

Factory:
Wired: 200 mbps
Wifi: 80 mbps

I think I'll stick with the factory firmware for now, but am in the market 
for new routers. My Linksys was free with a referral program from them and 
my Netgear Nighthawk was $5 at Goodwill.  It's about time for a change. :)




Also note that many of
 BR> the stock menus are deleted by design specs of comcast. A tech friend
 BR> of mine at Cisco confirmed this for me.

 Ni> Even if an ISP throttles speed via the customer's router, I don't see
 Ni> how a wifi repeater could override that and give you full internet
 Ni> speed.

 BR> You're absolutely correct. Perhaps lan speeds may improve but not
 lan->wan. When it comes to bandwidth, you're only as fast as your weakest
ink.


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