ColinTaylor
Part of the Furniture
Granddaughters do a lot of moving streaming
Wife binge watches Netflix
Ouch. Netflix uses 3Mbps for SD and 5Mbps for HD.Yep! Missed that one! fairly consistant ave 34 ping, 5mbps down and 2.5 up
Granddaughters do a lot of moving streaming
Wife binge watches Netflix
Ouch. Netflix uses 3Mbps for SD and 5Mbps for HD.Yep! Missed that one! fairly consistant ave 34 ping, 5mbps down and 2.5 up
My guess is that it's Zeecon point to point wireless so there's nothing to check his end.Is this DSL service from the ISP ?
Sure. But they said they were seeing errors from you to them. In this case "you" is their modem, is it not? While I do think you've problems with your router I remain unconvinced that they don't also have some problems.Maybe, but I don't think so because I contacted them about a month ago and they are using their system to monitor the issues. They are pretty good about taking care of issues and would have change the modem if they were concerned.
Yep! Netflix had to do a customizing of the settings in order for it to run on Zeecon which is a point to point wireless. My pickup point is about 600 yards from my house on top of a water tower. Only internet available in this area that does not have data caps. We really have no choices. I am looking at adding another Zeecon setup, one for Netflix and one for everything else. Dang rural areas are a real problem for internet.Ouch. Netflix uses 3Mbps for SD and 5Mbps for HD.
Very possible as there have been problems in the past but they usually are on top of it before we can report issues.I remain unconvinced that they don't also have some problems
Thanks to Collin I understand your Zeecon system better. So you could connect a PC directly into that long Ethernet cable that comes into your house when it all fails.have you ever failed long enough to plug directly into your ISP's device and watch it fail without any of your equipment attached?
Maybe you have (or can get) from your current company how much you're been using all these months, 8GB a day might not be an issue. I think (as you shop around for routers) Netgear will give you monthly tallies and I know Asus will (as well as daily, real time, etc.).Good to hear about the upgrade and new cable service availability. 250GB/month isn't too bad all things considered.
I did start writing about this in my previous reply but then deleted it for the sake of brevity. As you say, it's only a concern if you have multiple simultaneous data streams that collectively exceed 1Gb/s going between the first 4 ports and the last 4. That's a very specific scenario that probably doesn't apply (or can be worked around) by the OP. I think most people would be more concerned about the price differential between an 8 port router vs. a 4 port router + 4 port switch.Actually i always recommend the AC3100 over the AC88U. This is because the extra 4 ports are bottlenecked by 1Gb/s to everything else. The AC88U is the AC3100 with 4 extra ports.
There is price difference between the AC88U vs AC3100 + switch. The AC88U costs a lot more in the UK.I did start writing about this in my previous reply but then deleted it for the sake of brevity. As you say, it's only a concern if you have multiple simultaneous data streams that collectively exceed 1Gb/s going between the first 4 ports and the last 4. That's a very specific scenario that probably doesn't apply (or can be worked around) by the OP. I think most people would be more concerned about the price differential between an 8 port router vs. a 4 port router + 4 port switch.
Another thing to consider is, if he gets second internet feed, what is he going to use as a wireless router for that? I guess the cable company will supply him with one so it might be a moot point.
Did ask and no, they do not monitor the usage since they have no data caps.Maybe you have (or can get) from your current company how much you're been using
Would be with us. Netflix uses 1 to 3 gb per hour. Between the wife and grown daughters, I estimate they use about 300 gb per month.8GB a day might not be an issue
.I think most people would be more concerned about the price differential between an 8 port router vs. a 4 port router + 4 port switch
It's true that there is a bottleneck when all the traffic goes through a single link (or cable). That is what S.E.M. was referring to. Internally the AC88U has 2 separate 4 port switch chips, the link between them is 1Gb/s. So that creates a bottleneck between the first 4 ports and the second 4 ports. Of course there is no bottleneck between devices connected to the same switch chip. So you have to think whether there's going to be situation where you'll need to transfer more than 1Gb/s of data between ports 1-4 and ports 5-8.I was always led to believe that the switch vs router ports could create a bottle neck due to cable connecting the two. Is this correct?
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