Routers & Other Networking Stuff

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Mr. K

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I started with Plume and had very uneven performance and issues if it lost power for whatever reason.

Been running the Tenda Nova 3 pack for about $130 and it's been pretty damn solid.
 
TheNozz

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Anyone know what kind of cable this is?

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Crone

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So what's the latest and greatest home wifi routers that don't look like a dang space ship?

Higgly considering going ubiquiti stuff as well, and seperate out the switch and router. Just for reliability.
 
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Crone said:
So what's the latest and greatest home wifi routers that don't look like a dang space ship?

Higgly considering going ubiquiti stuff as well, and seperate out the switch and router. Just for reliability.
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You won't regret the move, I felt it was worth every penny.
 
Mist

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Crone said:
So what's the latest and greatest home wifi routers that don't look like a dang space ship?

Higgly considering going ubiquiti stuff as well, and seperate out the switch and router. Just for reliability.
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Nothing but high praise for all my ubiquiti gear.
 
Deathwing

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Now if only these companies that make outstanding router and network gear would also make cable modems. That market seems to be all low quality chinese crap.
 
Kuriin

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What's ubiquiti's best router for speed? Comcast is slowly boosting everyone to almost gigabit speeds and there are areas in my house with deadzones. Thinking of wireless point and router.
 
Mist

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If you have deadzones you probably want more than one WAP.

Do you have a POE switch?
 
Kuriin

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Nope. Never heard of POE switch until I started looking up Ubiquiti. And yeah, I was thinking of placing more than one WAP in the upstairs and the downstairs.
 
3301

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Kuriin said:
What's ubiquiti's best router for speed? Comcast is slowly boosting everyone to almost gigabit speeds and there are areas in my house with deadzones. Thinking of wireless point and router.
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The small Unifi USG gets me full fios gigabit. They have more powerful models but not necessary.
 
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Kuriin said:
Nope. Never heard of POE switch until I started looking up Ubiquiti. And yeah, I was thinking of placing more than one WAP in the upstairs and the downstairs.
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This is my "stack" and it's not cheap but it's beyond worth it in the long run.

Amazon product ASIN B00LV8YZLK <-- this is the "router" that touches whatever modem you have. You want to just bridge their modem straight to this.
Amazon product ASIN B01DKXT4CI <-- this is the POE switch that powers up the wireless AP's and connects all of the rooms back to the router.
Amazon product ASIN B015PRO512 <-- these are the wireless access points and I have two of them, one down and one up but you don't need the pros

You can get a regular switch and the AP's come with a POE injector, that will save a lot of money. You could also buy the AP's without the POE boxes.

Amazon product ASIN B079DSW6XX
 
Kuriin

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Your images didn't work, @a_skeleton_03 . Will I need to have all of the access points connected via ethernet? If so, won't be possible for a while as I'm living in a old house. Lol.
 
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Kuriin said:
Your images didn't work, @a_skeleton_03 . Will I need to have all of the access points connected via ethernet? If so, won't be possible for a while as I'm living in a old house. Lol.
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Yeah they need to be connected via ethernet but if you go with a single one it will be in the same room as your equipment. You definitely only need/want POE if you have CAT-5 throughout the house so you can just plug it in and it works.
 
brekk

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Ubiquiti's should have the capability to do wifi range extending leap frogging off each other's wifi.
 
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