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13388444, FiOS, I ditched the TV plan last year and stopped renting their router/modem
Posted by FLUIDJ, Thu Jun-11-20 08:21 AM
modem thing just this past fall when I discovered I could just plug my mesh router directly into the ONT (or whatever that thing is called)...
That was working decent enough, but we still had 100mb/s service as of 3 weeks ago. I got to researching and found out I could get Gigabit service for $10 more than I was paying for 100mbps so that was the move.
Once that was activated I quickly determined that the low budget mesh router I had (Tenda MW6) was a weak link...dropping signal, slow handoff between nodes, max speed was lower than gigabit, etc...
Ended up with the Velop MX5 WiFi 6 unit that amazingly covers the entire house (basement & two levels above) I'm averaging 500mbps down AND up. (mix of iPhones, Macbooks, iPads, Dell laptop, Android) The iPhones & my work Galaxy S10e are the only ones that can take full advantage of WiFi 6...
NO more dropped & freezing Zoom & MS Teams meetings....also some other network benefits that I hadn't expected...
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