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Post by adaboy on Mar 6, 2019 21:30:00 GMT -5
Sorry if you are repeating any of this. Approximate sqft? Aprox 2550 Ranch house, slab concrete floor no basement. I just moved the "all in one" modem/router from the office to the pantry. Keep in mind where we "hang" and use our phones etc is down in the rec room where the stereo and main TV are. Only when using the bathrooms by the bedrooms do we use out phones much down there. Hence why I'm already super happy with the improvement already. Just moving the "all in one" modem/router made a big difference. See this post for an old drawing. For some reason uploading it skews the drawing some but it will give you the idea. It also lists my original plans for what I thought I'd use at each location, but that has changed some since. emotivalounge.proboards.com/post/883480/thread100 download speed cable (Spectrum). The next step up in my area is 300, but it's a lot more money. That's exactly the unit I will get when I upgrade. I currently have an Arris "all in one" unit rated at 300 (I forget the model number). Yep, the ASUS one Mark listed above is the one I would get if I upgrade. It will be on the top shelf in the pantry. All good stuff with the exception of locating the router in the pantry. That AC3200 has a large range, the best location would be above the cabinets over the fridge, or high up in the Family room library room. That way your entire house will have good coverage. You won't miss a beat. Just make sure it's as high as you can go. Wifi does lateral range well but not when it's low to the ground.
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Post by Priapulus on Mar 7, 2019 8:52:03 GMT -5
When I started with computers over the phone we used about 150 baud (bit per second). When we upgraded to new CAT modems, 300 baud, it was amazing. The modem was finally faster than we could type, and replied almost as fast as we could read. We figured the eventual ceiling over Bell/copper would be about 1,500 baud. But today we can be about 6 orders of magnitude faster!!!
Data speed have been increasing exponentially, pushed by the ISPs because they need bandwidth to push product. So don't build your network for now, build for the future.
Cat5 is perfectly satisfactory for now; but use cat6 for the future, which will be here tomorrow. Don't get a 100/10 switch that will probably do you; get a 1,000 switch. Always buy the fastest stuff that is economically sensible. The ISPs will soon catch up and be offering 8k movies.
Of course you can't predict the future. Someone may invent an inexpensive terabyte WiFi that obsoletes your Cat6, but build for the future.
Sincerely /b
p.s. Your switch is the bottleneck for your local network. Your ISP is the bottleneck to the WWW.
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Post by klinemj on Mar 7, 2019 14:15:11 GMT -5
When I started with computers over the phone we used about 150 baud (bit per second). When we upgraded to new CAT modems, 300 baud, it was amazing. The modem was finally faster than we could type, and replied almost as fast as we could read. We figured the eventual ceiling over Bell/copper would be about 1,500 baud. But today we can be about 6 orders of magnitude faster!!! I love the speed increases we've experience but I do miss that sound of dial-up. I wonder if anyone have developed a sound bite that could play each time you open a browser that sounds like the old dial-up sound? Mark
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Post by Bonzo on Mar 7, 2019 16:50:00 GMT -5
All good stuff with the exception of locating the router in the pantry. That AC3200 has a large range, the best location would be above the cabinets over the fridge, or high up in the Family room library room. That way your entire house will have good coverage. You won't miss a beat. Just make sure it's as high as you can go. Wifi does lateral range well but not when it's low to the ground. Yeah, I understand, but the WAF on that multi-eared thing isn't very high, hence, the pantry. That's part of the reason I haven't made up my mind about a router like that, or to use WAPs like the Ubiquiti that go on the ceiling like a smoke alarm. I could probably just get one of those and mount it on the ceiling in the kitchen area, which is almost dead center of the house. The wife would go for that look. After having one, If I decided I need more I could always add 1 or 2 more. I'll get there someday, but life has intervened again. It's going to be several weeks before I can get back at it again.
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