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Spectrum doubled our Internet speed from 100Mbps to 200Mbps for free, which is great.
However, the wireless router we have now only goes up to 100Mbps download speeds for wired connection, which is not so great. I.e. if I run a speed test on my computer, which is wired into the router, I get roughly 80-90Mbps download speed. When I unhooked the computer from the router and plugged it directly into the modem itself, I got something crazy like 235Mbps (over the advertised 200Mbps, even, though granted I only did one such test so far).
Wireless speeds are much lower, of course. (I got something like 10-12Mbps download speed on my [admittedly old as fuck] Samsung Galaxy S3, and that was sitting in a chair right next to the router.)
So, basically, if I want a higher connection speed on my computer while wired into the router, I need to get a new router altogether. It probably wouldn't hurt the wireless speeds any to get a new router, too.
Current router is an ASUS RT-N12D1, which has WAN/LAN of 10/100M only (as that is apparently the bottleneck, even though the specs on that particular router otherwise claim "up to 300Mbps" which is apparently bullshit). I'll need to research this more tomorrow.
However, the wireless router we have now only goes up to 100Mbps download speeds for wired connection, which is not so great. I.e. if I run a speed test on my computer, which is wired into the router, I get roughly 80-90Mbps download speed. When I unhooked the computer from the router and plugged it directly into the modem itself, I got something crazy like 235Mbps (over the advertised 200Mbps, even, though granted I only did one such test so far).
Wireless speeds are much lower, of course. (I got something like 10-12Mbps download speed on my [admittedly old as fuck] Samsung Galaxy S3, and that was sitting in a chair right next to the router.)
So, basically, if I want a higher connection speed on my computer while wired into the router, I need to get a new router altogether. It probably wouldn't hurt the wireless speeds any to get a new router, too.
Current router is an ASUS RT-N12D1, which has WAN/LAN of 10/100M only (as that is apparently the bottleneck, even though the specs on that particular router otherwise claim "up to 300Mbps" which is apparently bullshit). I'll need to research this more tomorrow.
