Hello everyone!
Read through before you start to come to conclusions, cause I've made progress but Im going to give the whole story.
Just to set up: I've got a pc that my download speeds have been abysmal for years. I made some half hearted attempts at fixing it a few years ago, but just decided to live with it. I begrudgingly accepted it until a few days ago when I had a really painful few days involving multiple days of game updates that had to go over night.
So... Modem is Arris Surfboard 6700AC... Router is Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 R700, 300megabit service... pc is connected via external wifi adapter through USB 3.0. (2.4ghz band). The modem is a 2-in-1 modem/router combo that I just have the radio turned off to function as a standalone modem.
Download speeds from Steam cap out at 1.2megabyte/s, which is horrendous, and internet speed test gets me a pretty consistent 9Megabit/s, which works out mathematically.
I convinced myself the wifi was the issue.. between the bad speeds and I get drops fairly often, so that just reinforced it. Running ethernet through my house would be a huge pain because of the layout, but the old tenants had coax run through the whole house. So I decided to do a moca setup since the infrastructure was already there... cables ended up being very old and bad. The two I needed were testing as open circuit even with the end shorted. Replaced the line from where my router is to my pc location with brand new coax, got the moca connected up, it works.
The issue is, it was only *marginally* faster... like 5megabyte/s instead of 1.2... internet speed test shows 40megabit... so again, that works out. So... improvement over the wifi but not by much, and certainly not to what I should be getting.
So I hunted more. In my router control panel, I found that my wireless connections were shown at 600M(2.4ghz) and 1300M(5ghz) ... LAN1 where the moca line was connected was shown at 1000M, but WAN was shown at 10M... that's the connection into the router directly from the modem. I swapped that ethernet cable out and it bumped to 100M.
Now, my downloads go to 12Megabyte/s, and speed test at 89-90Megabits...which is much better, but still feels very shy of the service I pay for.
Being that the link between the modem and router looks like the bottleneck, and the modem is pretty old... and I know the 2-in-1 router/modem combo units can be pretty poor quality to begin with... Im ready to get a modem upgrade right now if it'll fix this situation. I just want some advice before I go and spend more money on this project and have it be a waste.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
Read through before you start to come to conclusions, cause I've made progress but Im going to give the whole story.
Just to set up: I've got a pc that my download speeds have been abysmal for years. I made some half hearted attempts at fixing it a few years ago, but just decided to live with it. I begrudgingly accepted it until a few days ago when I had a really painful few days involving multiple days of game updates that had to go over night.
So... Modem is Arris Surfboard 6700AC... Router is Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 R700, 300megabit service... pc is connected via external wifi adapter through USB 3.0. (2.4ghz band). The modem is a 2-in-1 modem/router combo that I just have the radio turned off to function as a standalone modem.
Download speeds from Steam cap out at 1.2megabyte/s, which is horrendous, and internet speed test gets me a pretty consistent 9Megabit/s, which works out mathematically.
I convinced myself the wifi was the issue.. between the bad speeds and I get drops fairly often, so that just reinforced it. Running ethernet through my house would be a huge pain because of the layout, but the old tenants had coax run through the whole house. So I decided to do a moca setup since the infrastructure was already there... cables ended up being very old and bad. The two I needed were testing as open circuit even with the end shorted. Replaced the line from where my router is to my pc location with brand new coax, got the moca connected up, it works.
The issue is, it was only *marginally* faster... like 5megabyte/s instead of 1.2... internet speed test shows 40megabit... so again, that works out. So... improvement over the wifi but not by much, and certainly not to what I should be getting.
So I hunted more. In my router control panel, I found that my wireless connections were shown at 600M(2.4ghz) and 1300M(5ghz) ... LAN1 where the moca line was connected was shown at 1000M, but WAN was shown at 10M... that's the connection into the router directly from the modem. I swapped that ethernet cable out and it bumped to 100M.
Now, my downloads go to 12Megabyte/s, and speed test at 89-90Megabits...which is much better, but still feels very shy of the service I pay for.
Being that the link between the modem and router looks like the bottleneck, and the modem is pretty old... and I know the 2-in-1 router/modem combo units can be pretty poor quality to begin with... Im ready to get a modem upgrade right now if it'll fix this situation. I just want some advice before I go and spend more money on this project and have it be a waste.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
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