restorick2378
New Around Here
Hello all,
First time poster here. Been a lurker for a little bit. I'm trying to get my arms around going routers or mesh. When we built the house 18 years ago, I ran Cat5 throughout. I eschewed the first few gens of wireless devices because I had a pretty solid setup with the ethernet. Downside, of course, was that everything was tethered.
Now, I have a Netgear R7300 as my primary wireless router behind the Arris cable model (Uverse). In hindsight, the R7300 seemed like a good idea as it included a dead spot device. But I never got that working correctly and it's gathering dust in the closet. The R7300 itself is a nice router, but it doesn't support options for VPN servers through firmware updates.
Wireless coverage throughout the house is pretty good, but sometimes that the TV in the far bedroom starts to pixelate and stall when we have company and a lot of wireless devices are connected. We have 4 TVs in the house, but at one time only 2 may be on.
I'm in the process of cutting the cord with Uverse and going 100% streaming. Want the best experience for it, so I've been looking at mesh (Orbi) or perhaps getting some new routers and connecting them through the ethernet backbone. Concern I have is the Cat5 is technically only good to 100mpbs, and since it's buried in the wall, I'm not too keen on pulling Cat5e or 6.
If you were in my shoes, what would you do?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Rick
First time poster here. Been a lurker for a little bit. I'm trying to get my arms around going routers or mesh. When we built the house 18 years ago, I ran Cat5 throughout. I eschewed the first few gens of wireless devices because I had a pretty solid setup with the ethernet. Downside, of course, was that everything was tethered.
Now, I have a Netgear R7300 as my primary wireless router behind the Arris cable model (Uverse). In hindsight, the R7300 seemed like a good idea as it included a dead spot device. But I never got that working correctly and it's gathering dust in the closet. The R7300 itself is a nice router, but it doesn't support options for VPN servers through firmware updates.
Wireless coverage throughout the house is pretty good, but sometimes that the TV in the far bedroom starts to pixelate and stall when we have company and a lot of wireless devices are connected. We have 4 TVs in the house, but at one time only 2 may be on.
I'm in the process of cutting the cord with Uverse and going 100% streaming. Want the best experience for it, so I've been looking at mesh (Orbi) or perhaps getting some new routers and connecting them through the ethernet backbone. Concern I have is the Cat5 is technically only good to 100mpbs, and since it's buried in the wall, I'm not too keen on pulling Cat5e or 6.
If you were in my shoes, what would you do?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Rick