Feedback welcome on network upgrades.

[blpcsolutions]

Hey! Thanks for the detailed breakdown — sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into your setup. Given your small apartment, mostly wired high-demand devices, and mostly low-data wireless devices, sticking with a 2x2 router instead of 4x4 makes total sense. The 4x4 routers really shine in bigger spaces with many simultaneous high-bandwidth wireless devices, which doesn’t seem to be your case.

Also, since your main speed bottleneck was the 1Gbps Ethernet limit and you upgraded to 2.5Gbps ports, that’s probably the best bang for your buck right now. Waiting on 10G or WiFi 7 isn’t urgent unless your devices or internet plan demand it.

In short — your current setup sounds well optimized for your needs. No need to overpay for extra features you won’t fully use!

 

[MacinMan]

Hey! Thanks for the detailed breakdown — sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into your setup. Given your small apartment, mostly wired high-demand devices, and mostly low-data wireless devices, sticking with a 2x2 router instead of 4x4 makes total sense. The 4x4 routers really shine in bigger spaces with many simultaneous high-bandwidth wireless devices, which doesn’t seem to be your case.

Also, since your main speed bottleneck was the 1Gbps Ethernet limit and you upgraded to 2.5Gbps ports, that’s probably the best bang for your buck right now. Waiting on 10G or WiFi 7 isn’t urgent unless your devices or internet plan demand it.

In short — your current setup sounds well optimized for your needs. No need to overpay for extra features you won’t fully use!

Thanks, those were my main thoughts as well, and like I mentioned, I have WiFi 7 when I'm ready for it now. I could have gotten a WiFi 6E router for the 2.5G upgrade, and since my current iPhone supports 6E, but 7 just made more sense, since my next phone will have it, and then I won't have to buy again for a while. The only reason this time around I had to spend more then intended was because the first two modems I tried didn't work as they needed to, and the problems showed up after it was too late to return, and the Asus WiFi 7 (BE92U) turned out to be a bad model with lots of issues that I eventually just got rid of.

Now the TPLink BE9300 + Arris S33 v3 have been rock solid out of the box.

EDIT: If the TP-Link ever has issues, I still have my Asus RT-AX86U to fall back upon, as it's stable. I'll lose multi 2.5G ports, but I'll still get up to the 940 Mbps rated gig speeds for my plan, and it's a WiFi 6 router, so still current.