improving wifi in my home office
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Finally grabbed the wired equivalents as promised. VPN does slow things down but I'll live. (I only use the VPN when at home when I need journal-access-via-university-IP.)
No VPN.
w/VPN
And what service provider do you use?Finally grabbed the wired equivalents as promised. VPN does slow things down but I'll live. (I only use the VPN when at home when I need journal-access-via-university-IP.)
No VPN.
w/VPN
Centurylink, which inherited the Qwest fiber optic network, apparently. At our earlier rental house we had Centurylink DSL, and that sucked balls. Their fiber game is completely different.
More relevant to you is my network setup:
Optical network terminal -> ASUS RT-AC68U as a wireless router -> 32 port switch iirc -> cable runs to all over the house, including another RT-AC68U in access point mode and an Apple Airport Extreme, also in access point mode. I might have pulled that access point RT--AC68U--definitely pulled one after it was acting up.
Thankfully the people who renovated our house put structured cabling to most rooms in the house so I use that where possible e.g. work computer desk, computer under the TV, downstairs in the pain cave where wifi isn't as strong.
Xfinity cable > xfinity wifi/cable box which then has 4 cabled runs to various parts of the house.
Just tested speedtest and I'm getting 350Mbps down and 12Mbps up. Who is your provider in town?
Xfinity cable > xfinity wifi/cable box which then has 4 cabled runs to various parts of the house.
Just tested speedtest and I'm getting 350Mbps down and 12Mbps up. Who is your provider in town?
FWIW;
I personally haven't noticed any difference but both of the women-folk report marked improvement during the day on their various devices and with all the zoom learning/online class stuff. Anecdotal, but there you go.
I personally haven't noticed any difference but both of the women-folk report marked improvement during the day on their various devices and with all the zoom learning/online class stuff. Anecdotal, but there you go.
Figure this one out: I get 7 mpbs download if I'm lucky. Doing a W 10 feature update this morning, it kicked up to 100 mbps for about a minute. This over shitty ISDN, unless there's magic I don't know...
Bad algorithm + cached data at some point in the pipeline.
I didn't even know ISDN was still offered as a service 
Algorithm at what level, cached data where?
Very likely that the update has some de-duplication or pre-requisites built into the download process, and you already had a bunch of the files you needed, so it was checking your local files and marking them as "downloaded."
I was watching the network interface with Task Manager. Something was pumping me data very fast for something under a minute.
Would my apple TV be better if I ran a cat5 from the router to it than using WiFi that is ten feet away but through the floor?
