Recent content by sb5533

sure, and gaming would be the area of application i would be looking at, not an issue for anything else. there is no modem, i mean, there is an ONT attached to the wall, which comes directly from the fiber line outside into the ONT, and then from there to the router. You can plug directly...

this was on hard wired..ethernet. sure, but it was strange, on the eero router, the spikes would happen, but very infrequently. On the nighthawk router, they would happen all the time. When the test was over, it would so the upload latency to be about 20 to 30ms and download latency to be...

i was just using the speed test by Ookla test. Its just an online speed testing tool. sure, i was just mentioning the options the router has.

MetroNet offers speeds up to 5GB. I dont need that much so I just opt for 1GB interesting on using the PC as a router/firewall though, ill have to explore that later. So you are saying that store bought routers cant properly handle the speed of even 1GB? or they cant properly handle speeds...

you suggest using a spare PC AS youre router? i happen to have a spare PC that i dont use. its about 10 years old, but still works just fine. you are saying i can use it as a router somehow?

thanks. any thoughts on the latency "spikes"? should i even be concerned about those "highs" of 140 to 200+? or are they just normal and not to be worried about?

hello all! have been a cable user all my life, but recently, we were lucky enough to get a fiber optic option through a company called MetroNet. I decided to have them install a 1GB fiber connection (an upgrade from the 300/30 cable connection i was using). The router they install with there...

Hello, I am running an i7 4790k, on an ASUS Z97-A motherboard with a corsair HX850 power supply. This motherboard has 3 pci-e x16 slots on it. Windows 10 64 bit. Currently i'm running an EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB video card. I have 3 32" televisions running at 1080p @ 60Hz that I use for...