Az Geek Talk

I havent done a bridge/repeater in so long so I am rusty on how to set them up like that lol.

 

These days it's easy. There literally is a 'bridge mode', you choose wifi or wired, it links up, done. Messing with the roaming assistant is a bit of a pain in the ass.

 

Ah, before you had to disable DCHP on the other ones and sync up the IPs that don't conflict with the main one and other shit. lol

 

Right? They made it so easy now. My cabin uses a 3 router wireless bridge. My house uses all gigabit cat6 with the 3 routers and it runs so smooth and fast. My choke points in my house are the hard drives read/write speeds.

 

Wish we had Gigabit over by us now, but still hasn't reached our area yet. Just get some SSDs

 

I still don't have gigabit. I was talking about my internal speeds. Cox said my area won't get it until 2020 most likely. I think google is scheduled around 2018. I still bank about 200 down and it seems to be more than enough for my needs.

 

Ah gotcha.

 

I know quite a few people who have gigabit and yet have found one person who could possibly max it out. I'll ask what they use and they'll say 'netflix'.....

I more want a lot of up speeds. I share my media server with some people and ever so often I max out the up speeds. I only get 20 up and I want more around the 200+ range.

 

Yeah, up speeds always are lacking and it sucks -.-

 

I stick with Linksys for my routers/switches. My modem is a Moto Surfboard SB6141, which does up to 343MBp/s.

 

Once Linksys got bought out by Cisco I ran away from them. It seemed like Cisco didn't want Linksys to take their business so they made their consumer routers garbage. Again, that was 10 or so years ago so maybe they are better now. I did have a really nice Cisco router at one point but it finally died after 10 or so years of use.

 

Linksys is owned by Belkin now. I believe Belkin gives the Linksys team more freedom over their designs than Cisco did.

 

I had the 6141 but it is only 8 channel, need the 24 channels to get this new speed.

I have loved my ASUS routers, still after reading reviews on this net gear, I ordered one. So we will see.

 

GL sir!

 

That's good to know.

Worst case, return it.

 

@Chipskip

Did you get your router stuff working? I'm curous to how it works.

 

I love my Linksys router now.

$398 EA9500 Linksys WiFi 5 Router, Tri-Band, 3000 Sq. ft Coverage, 25+ Devices, Speeds up to (AC5400) 5.4Gbps - EA9500

EA9500. It's top end though so I have no complaints.

Though, do you know of anything else I could use to make it better? Everything runs great, don't mind it at all. Just curious if there is any upgrades to it.

 

You can check for Tomato or DDWRT Firmware is available for it. Other than that I don't think there is any upgrades other than tweaking the WiFi settings.

 

This pretty much in a nutshell.

 

Also, I prefer Tomato over DDWRT. Just seems to work better with my Asus router's that I've used.