March 03, 2022
Faster please....
You gotta watch it with Comcast. When your contract is up, the price on your package starts to climb. But if you're quick enough, you can sign up for a new package with improved connectivity for what you were paying, more or less.
Forex, I had a 75 mbit service that was about $75, which was better than the 50 mbit service I had previously that was costing me nearly $100, quite a few years ago. In fact, that package had officially been discontinued. So was the 75 mbit package. I signed up for a 100 mbit package that was $45. Although I never seemed to get that speed. Still seemed reasonable for a year or so, until the bill went to $48 one month, and then $58 the next.
So I went looking for a better deal. 100 MB package, with twice the upload speed (12 mbit from 6) for $50. Signed up, reset my modem, and hit speedtest. Only got about 50 down, but got the 12 up. I thought it was their problem because I DID get 75 on the 75 mbit service, at least when I checked. But I thought, maybe it's the modem.
It was the modem, it was a 4x4 channel modem, not even supported any more. So I hit Amazon, found a reasonable 16x4 cable modem for $25. I got it today, hooked it up, and BOOM, 120 mbits down, 12 mbits up.
However, once I hooked the rest of my network back up, with my WiFi router between my switches and the cable modem, speed dropped to 90 mbits. Turns out this old WiFi router only has a 100 mbit ethernet port. Which wasn't a problem on the slower packages.
So, back to Amazon. New routers seem to think that you will ONLY run WiFi... really, I only do that with my phone, and rarely a Kindle. But I do need that much connectivity. Cheapest thing I could find with gigabit ports was still twice the price of the modem. But I seem to recall that was the case last time....
For now, I'll plug the old router back in because I also remembered you can't just plug a switch directly into a cable modem. It doesn't have the smarts when they're that cheap. Next week though....
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Oh, to update. New WiFi router is huge. But Gigabit, so I'm now turning in 120/12's easily, with a 9 ms ping (11 ms on my laptop, because it has a switch or two to traverse).
Oh, and I uninstalled Samsung Magician and while I'm still bluescreening, it's somewhat less frequent. Not sure what the connection is.
Oh, and I uninstalled Samsung Magician and while I'm still bluescreening, it's somewhat less frequent. Not sure what the connection is.
Posted by: Mauser at March 11, 2022 10:56 PM (gVjvf)
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