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Help me upgrade my NOC!

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roastchicken:
I haven't read the post fully yet, but did the ISP say "up to 150/25" anywhere? Most ISPs do that, promise speeds "up to" what they put on all their advertising. We pay for 75 down from Comcast, but get more like 50 (with Ethernet; 30 on Wi-Fi). Sure, some of the speed loss is probably due to the copper cable instead of fiber running to our house. But more than likely most of it is due to our ISP over crowding their lines. If you have a N300 router it should be able to get 150Mb/s easily, seeing as it's single band.

I, like Megiddo, have an Airport Extreme. Our grandfather recommended it. I'm not sure I like it, as you have to have an Apple product to configure it (I don't have any except for an old iPad buried away somewhere, but luckily my family members do) and it doesn't seem much better otherwise from the Linksys we had previously. But I can't complain about the speed, because I'm sure it can handle speeds much higher than what I'll get from Comcast.

I'm no expert about home networking; I just know enough to get by. But I would suggest making sure that it's actually your router which is causing the speed loss (instead of the ISP under-delivering). I don't know anything about how the frequency affects the speed, and you did mention that you got an extra 9Mb/s by overclocking it (I had no clue you could overclock routers, that's pretty cool). But I'm not sure a router is something you should try to future-proof, and I think a AC1900 router is definitely overkill for a 150/25 connection. And that's not mentioning the dubious claim of AC1900 (1300 Mb/s on 5Ghz).

JamminR:
Hi roastchicken, thanks for input.
I don't fall for marketing hype. I know those numbers have little to do with reality.
I went ahead and ordered the Netgear 1900 last Thur, got and installed it this weekend.
I'm now getting ~140mbps/24mbps.Router was definitely part of the issue.
The modem is next.
Here's the new results (another household member was streaming Netflix, hence the ~-5mbps)


I also love it's WiFi performance.
Our local area is pretty good about not being over provisioned.
It was horrible when I moved in '08. They installed a new fiber hut a few miles off and it's been gold ever since.
I researched my current SB6120 modem and found it can only do 172mbps theoretically.
So, in my mind, if that was done in a lab, real life = ~140-150.
This evening, I've gone ahead and ordered a Motorola MB8600.
I figure after that I'm hopefully good on home networking for at least another 10 years.
:)

(Oh, overclocking usually isn't possible - I use custom firmware. Was using Toastman TomatoUSB on the old router. I'm using a newer AdvancedTomato on the new one. Loving it's new GUI, yet still has same features I was using previously)

JamminR:
Today, we're updating the modem.
So.
This is before new modem (Motorola MB8600), after the new router mentioned above.



....
Will edit this post with 'after' in a few..hopefully, if self-activation all goes well. :)

EDIT
I love overprovisioning.


Though upstream is no faster, it did reach max faster.
The ISP is still limiting me to 4 upstream channels, new modem downstream connection has twenty-four Docsis 3 channels and one Docsis 3.1 connection going.

NOC equipment upgrade done for a while.
Now I just need to get off my lazy butt and reroute and re-tie cables.

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