The Home Ownership Thread

[brokencycle]

I also have Google Fiber and they offered me the same 2GB deal. Doesn't seem worth the extra cash. 1GB is more than enough.

Most people would be better off spending the extra money upgrading the home's Wi-Fi network. That's usually the bottleneck when you have those types of speeds being pumped into the home.

To get anything close to those posted speeds you really need 802.11ac primarily for the MIMO benefits, but that's max speed is 433Mbps (on the 2.4GHz spectrum), but you really need to go to 802.11ax to start seeing wireless benefits of 1Gb or above.

Wired is a different ball of wax.

 

[jbarwick]

That sucks. I get 500/500 consistently. We can have 3-4 streams going with no one getting buffering or anything.

Edit: The bastards have been screwing me. Over the last week my speed has only averaged 494/450.

To get anything close to those posted speeds you really need 802.11ac primarily for the MIMO benefits, but that's max speed is 433Mbps (on the 2.4GHz spectrum), but you really need to go to 802.11ax to start seeing wireless benefits of 1Gb or above.

Wired is a different ball of wax.

Based on this info, I have 802.11ac. Don't know where my hangup is. I have no experience with any of this **** so will likely accept my slow speeds as I have no clue where to start...

 

[cross22]

1gb+ is worth it if you hardwire your tv and/or have multiple people streaming on wifi at the same time which is not unusual.

 

[Jr Mouse]

Depending on the size of your house and construction, having a couple of walls between you and the Wi-Fi router can cause a huge drop in performance. Newer home Wi-Fi Mesh Network devices can go a long way towards solving this. This allows you to have access points at various spots in your home to maximize the strength of your network based on your needs.

 

[jbarwick]

Depending on the size of your house and construction, having a couple of walls between you and the Wi-Fi router can cause a huge drop in performance. Newer home Wi-Fi Mesh Network devices can go a long way towards solving this. This allows you to have access points at various spots in your home to maximize the strength of your network based on your needs.

I have this AmpliFi system and Arris modem. Our house is a little more than 4K fq ft and the ports are all in great places. There is likely some sort of setting adjustments I could make on my end but again...don't know what to do.

AmpliFi Mesh Wi-Fi System

The AmpliFi™ HD (High Density) System includes a router base station and two wireless super mesh points for maximum Wi-Fi coverage throughout your home. The HD Kit provides maximum wireless performance in an innovative and elegant design. The router includes a smart LCD screen and the mesh...

store.amplifi.com

https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-Approved-SB8200-Frustration/dp/B07DY16W2Z/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TTQ30RC5SKMYQWJQ2XZF

 

[ValidusLA]

I have this AmpliFi system and Arris modem. Our house is a little more than 4K fq ft and the ports are all in great places. There is likely some sort of setting adjustments I could make on my end but again...don't know what to do.

AmpliFi Mesh Wi-Fi System

The AmpliFi™ HD (High Density) System includes a router base station and two wireless super mesh points for maximum Wi-Fi coverage throughout your home. The HD Kit provides maximum wireless performance in an innovative and elegant design. The router includes a smart LCD screen and the mesh...

store.amplifi.com

https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-Approved-SB8200-Frustration/dp/B07DY16W2Z/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TTQ30RC5SKMYQWJQ2XZF

Have same setup and works quite well. Though my Arris is getting kinda old.

 

[brokencycle]

I have this AmpliFi system and Arris modem. Our house is a little more than 4K fq ft and the ports are all in great places. There is likely some sort of setting adjustments I could make on my end but again...don't know what to do.

AmpliFi Mesh Wi-Fi System

The AmpliFi™ HD (High Density) System includes a router base station and two wireless super mesh points for maximum Wi-Fi coverage throughout your home. The HD Kit provides maximum wireless performance in an innovative and elegant design. The router includes a smart LCD screen and the mesh...

store.amplifi.com

https://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-Approved-SB8200-Frustration/dp/B07DY16W2Z/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TTQ30RC5SKMYQWJQ2XZF

It is real easy to check where the bottleneck is. Do you have any hardwired computers? If so, go to speedtest.net and run the test. Then run it on a laptop. You can also try it in a few spots in the house. My wired connection easily gets the 500Mb all the time. My laptop gets ~100Mb.

 

[nootje]

I’d kill for symmetrical speeds. I live in a 100y old neighborhood and as such there’s only copper in the ground. So I pay for cable tv that I don’t use because it’s a package with internet, they cannot turn of the cable tv signal. And I get 900mbps down, with 50 mbps up. That’s no typo.

In the next two years I’m supposed to get fiber, which will instantly get me to 1k/1k. I’ll be glad to be rid of this provider when it happens.

 

[jbarwick]

It is real easy to check where the bottleneck is. Do you have any hardwired computers? If so, go to speedtest.net and run the test. Then run it on a laptop. You can also try it in a few spots in the house. My wired connection easily gets the 500Mb all the time. My laptop gets ~100Mb.

Nothing hard wired but getting 100Mb on laptop and slightly higher on phone from same location. Will need to get an adapter to hardwire but no real reason to currently.

 

[Piobaire]

Data drops FTW.

 

[Lizard23]

Data drops FTW.

This... i have cat 6 drops in every room of the house and have everything that can be reasonably hardwired, connected with cat 6.

I have fios 1GB and use eero mesh for wifi. Wifi speeds are typically 600Mb

 

[Van Veen]

My options:
500MB: $55/mo
1GB: $70/mo
2GB: $100/mo

All speeds are symmetric. I'm actually only at the 500MB today which I've never had a bottleneck today.

Spectrum offered me $30/mo for 400mb, 2 years no contract. I'm on AT&T's similar mid-tier plan for $45/mo. I ******* hate Spectrum with the fire of 1000 suns which is the only thing giving me pause. Google is installing a few blocks over. I'm sure that's why this is happening. Spectrum actually sent a door-to-door salesman last week.

 

[brokencycle]

Spectrum offered me $30/mo for 400mb, 2 years no contract. I'm on AT&T's similar mid-tier plan for $45/mo. I ******* hate Spectrum with the fire of 1000 suns which is the only thing giving me pause. Google is installing a few blocks over. I'm sure that's why this is happening. Spectrum actually sent a door-to-door salesman last week.

That's exactly why, but if my experience is indicative, Google is 6 months out from when they lay the cable.

 

[UnFacconable]

**** all y'all with your fiber.

I live in the tech capital of the world and either have to use Comcast or microwave. My comcast is theoretically 1 GB (what I pay for) but I get at most 450 down (and typically substantially less) and 6 up. That's on GB ethernet but I also run unifi access points for wireless devices.

The download speed doesn't really matter to me but the upload speed is annoying. A consistent 150mb down is plenty for multiple zoom calls, streaming videos (25 mbps for 4k), etc. but the upload can be a bottleneck. Unless you are regularly downloading multi GB files, the topline download speed is less of a factor than latency. The consistency/reliability of fiber is a huge selling point as well.

My other alternative is AT&T DSL which is 768 kbps. Awesome.

 

[Van Veen]

That's exactly why, but if my experience is indicative, Google is 6 months out from when they lay the cable.

I guess I'll call AT&T and see if they can match Spectrum's offer. If not, maybe I can tolerate Spectrum for a couple of years.

AT&T also kind of pisses me off because they hung their fiber optic cable so low that I have to duck under it when I mow my lawn.

God I hate telecom companies.