I use a fiber optic internet connection. The speed is 2.5 Gbps.
The speed in your case may be cut by an old wi-fi router. Or if the router is modern, it would be a good idea to upgrade it
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Are most of you wired or using wifi?
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The speed in your case may be cut by an old wi-fi router. Or if the router is modern, it would be a good idea to upgrade it
Biggest issue I see with people's wifi is too many access points that are too close together.
This has become a huge thing now that Eero and others range extender/ mesh solutions.
As a pro-network engineer, the way seamless roaming works is all the APs have the same SSID, the wifi name that shows in your list, so you computer or whatever device relies on how good or bad the signal is to determine if it should hop to another Access Point with the same name.
If you have 2 APs that are similar distance away from your computer, the computer has a difficult time choosing which one to stay connected to vs One with terrible signal to noise ratio and Two with great signal.
So just be sure if you have a larger home or a home with dense walls, don't fall down the rabbit hole of having APs all over the place, just place them at the theoretical edge of the signal of your main base station or turn down the transmit power if you need to artificially reduce the radius in order to accommodate 2+ wifi access points in your home layout.
This has become a huge thing now that Eero and others range extender/ mesh solutions.
As a pro-network engineer, the way seamless roaming works is all the APs have the same SSID, the wifi name that shows in your list, so you computer or whatever device relies on how good or bad the signal is to determine if it should hop to another Access Point with the same name.
If you have 2 APs that are similar distance away from your computer, the computer has a difficult time choosing which one to stay connected to vs One with terrible signal to noise ratio and Two with great signal.
So just be sure if you have a larger home or a home with dense walls, don't fall down the rabbit hole of having APs all over the place, just place them at the theoretical edge of the signal of your main base station or turn down the transmit power if you need to artificially reduce the radius in order to accommodate 2+ wifi access points in your home layout.
Both wired and wireless, but mostly wireless. My Mac Studio is my work machine, so it’s the one wired exception as it gets the max benefit of my fiber connection.
The only downside is that my house was originally wired for cable and not Ethernet, so there’s a MoCA 2.5 adapter that connects my mac to the main router connected to the fiber, so on average it gets about 850 up and down. Maybe one day I’ll wire for Ethernet to all rooms but at this time it’s not necessary.
The only downside is that my house was originally wired for cable and not Ethernet, so there’s a MoCA 2.5 adapter that connects my mac to the main router connected to the fiber, so on average it gets about 850 up and down. Maybe one day I’ll wire for Ethernet to all rooms but at this time it’s not necessary.
Thanks for this. I just switched over to a set of Eero 6+'s. How can you tell if they are too close together? I have one in the upstairs, two on the main floor, one in the basement & one in the garage. Not sure if I am creating issues for myself or not. (Prior to this, I just used an Airport router, but had bad reception in the kitchen, so I put a second one in there & then a third in the basement. )
Edited to add: When I set up the eeros, the app said the placement was good, but I think that had more to do with being within range of another eero, rather than optimal placement)
$89/month for 2G up and down, though only using half that due to using 1G Ethernet.