[Cialug] Mediacom to boost speeds

[David Champion]

I'm running DD-WRT on a netgear WNDR3700, it's pretty nice. Doesn't have
AC, but I don't need it.

Was running an Asus RT-N12, had no complaints about the speed of it either.

Most people that think they need gigabit ethernet LAN at home probably
never even get close to using that much local bandwidth.

-dc


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Justin Richeson <neomatrixjr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yep, I'm on CrashPlan too.  Have my parent's place and my place set up
> with
> > a central backup system and then cross-offsite backups to each other.
>  Any
> > time I want to play battlefield 4 I have to kill crashplan on my PC and
> my
> > server.
> >
> > And yep, VDSL2 to our house. :(  I had heard good things about the ZyXel
> > Q100, but they're almost impossible to find.  They're a basic VDSL2
> modem.
> >  No Router, no WiFi, just phone in, eth out.  On that topic...anyone know
> > why I can go to the store (or at least amazon) and find half a dozen
> cable
> > modems, but if I look for DSL I can only find...pretty much whatever CL
> is
> > offering right now...so 1, maybe 2 models?
>
> Yeah, I've searched and searched as well and found nothing.
>
> > I'm probably going to put my modem/router/ap into passthrough only as
> soon
> > as I can get my hands on a router I like.  Problem is they're all WAY out
> > of my <$100 (and the less the better) budget right now.  Then again, I'm
> > picky.  I want too much.  An 802.11ac dual-band router with a gigabit
> > switch and DD-WRT support that has a good processor and sufficient RAM
> > isn't too much to ask is it?! :)  Though I'd be willing to blow my budget
> > for one of these bad boys:
> >
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soaprouter/soap-first-smart-router-w-touch-display-powered-by
> > Too bad I missed the early buy-in prices.
>
> IMHO, either look for a Cisco router on eBay or run a Linux distro on
> a small/quiet PC.  Get a separate gig-e switch and a separate wireless
> access point.  You'll pay a little bit more for that then getting an
> all-in-one solution but you'll get so much more
> performance/flexibility.
>
> On the other hand, the Linksys WRT1900AC looks interesting, if a tad
> pricey.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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