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Arris SB6183 supports up to 686 Mbps. $69 on Amazon. If budget is a concern you could go that route.
I am looking at it this way. When the modem comes in and I hook it up and still have problems. Then why waste money on a router. I will test the new modem without the router hooked up!
Good plan. Get the modem working first. Then upgrade your router if your speeds degrade with your current router. Asus AX1800 is a solid choice.
I hate trying to talk to people at Spectrum. Did you ever see the South Park show where they where talking about the cable companies.
VPN will drop speeds and packet drops will make gaming a bad experience on cable internet. Our Spectrum dropped so many packets it would reboot the modem we purchased. Once we went ATT fiber no issues with packet loss/drops. We use enterprise Ubiquiti POE managed switch and AP. No Best Buy crap. Note check all your cables one bad crimp and it will haunt you.
Thank you. Did read everything? I am only getting 23.5 Mbps download and 2.4 M bps up load. And that is with out a vpn.
This is a great idea! I'm kicking myself for not coming up with this. They should have no issue upgrading you to 300 Mbps since you would be using their equipment. You will likely end up paying the same price for higher speeds and a modem that's their problem if it stops working.
Free is a good thing. Xfinity charges $14 for a modem. You can always purchase your own modem later.
You must be subscribed to a low cost 25 Mbps plan. Call Spectrum again and ask them to check your current speed tier. They should be able to update your account for higher speeds over the phone.
When I talked to the person at Spectrum. They look into it and said I should be getting 300 Mbps. I ask several time about my plan and if I was grandfather in, he said that I should be getting 300 mbps. And that they gave everyone another 100 Mbps. The bottom package was 200 Mbps. He could not explain why this was happening. And that he send a tech out check the line. I told him they just replaced the line. That he hope the tech he was sending knew what he was doing.
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That's an insane price for that--I can usually find that for $25-30 shipped used.
That 'future proof' line was touted when the 8200 was released because it would someday supposedly be able to do 2Gbs. Well, that never happened, and and now that the 2.5Gbs modems are here, it never will. Future proofing is a myth--get what you need today and upgrade to what you need tommorrow, tomorrow--the tech changes too fast to worry about futureproofing anymore.
Yep, expecially nuts when that same money invested into a small business/enterprise setup would run circles around it.
This is a good way to get them to properly service you too. Get their equipment, show the problem still exists and they have no choice but to fix it. Once that's done, swap back over to your own equipment. PITA, but less of a pita than dealing with bad service or switching providers.
If it's spectrum and modem only, you really can't go wrong. I've got 2 different sites that are on spectrum (one business and one consumer) and we use their modems and then have our own equipment behind it. Works very well and when it doesn't, there's no finger pointing.
This is my thinking--seen it before with another isp. They also blamed the modem even though it was theirs. Their 'upgrade' didn't help so I got the old ones because they had better blinkenlights.
Have them re-provision your modem and verify you're receiving the proper config file for 300 Mbps service. It that still doesn't work, escalate the problem to a Supervisor. This usually gets people moving. They should be able to fix this easily. This is simple stuff.
Yep. I'd move to their modem and then call it in versus checking anything. Let them mess with it all, and you simply wait until they fix it before swapping back to your own modem again. Oh, and be sure to ask for credits for the months of service where you weren't getting your speeds once they fix it.
Thank you. I called them they did it. All fixed 300 Mbps.. Thing is I had ask them before if it was my plan and they said no.
So now you can try your old modem and I bet it will work too and you can return the new one.
They will all spike like that for about 5 seconds (my 800 spikes to nearly 1Gb). Check using dslreports.com/speedtest and you'll see it settle down.
Usually some sort of anti-virus or OS interfereance. Just boot up a linux live os and test there.
It's been a while since I used it and just tried it on 3x different browsers and 2x different OS's with an error that it can't reach the server. Seems like they broke it somehow. The other one I use is fast.com, but it's not always right, even though it almost always 'just works'.
Check your laptops wifi standard and the new router's supported ones and configured ones. My guess is that they are mismatched--hence why they can't see each other.
