On Mar 8, 2023, at 1:09 AM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I was upgraded (by my ISP) from Cable 75 (75M/10M) to Cable 100 (100M/30M). It turns out my router (Asus RT-N66U) maxes out at 85M/30M. Connecting directly to the modem, I get full 100M/30M.
So, it's time for a new router. It's been long time since I shopped for a router. Which one do you recommend?
I have a Bell 1gig fibre connection. But you get that speed only if you are connected over wire to the router. I am in an apartment, so I cannot hardwire the router to the room where I actually work from. Using an iperf3 server running on a raspberry pi wired to the Bell router, I ran several tests to see how well clients would work from my work room (same floor). Finally settled on getting this: TP-Link AX1800 WiFi Extender Internet Booster (RE605X) https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B08TLM5PRB/ I am only using it wired to a normal switch to make the switch wireless. A hardwired laptop (Mac M2) to this switch is now giving me ~500Mbps, far exceeding direct wifi connection to the Bell router from the laptop. I even tried connecting my previous Unifi Dream Machine to the router (wincing at the double NAT) and measured wifi speeds to that from clients. But even that was inferior to the Tplink wifi6 <->Bell Wifi6 router connection. Very painfully abandoned UDM as an option in this rental. - Sandip