New Router, Same Speeds

[KnightKv]

So, I recently bought a new Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 Dual Band Router and 100 feet of Cat6 cable. My old wireless internet speeds were a blistering 450kbps (I know, fast right?), but when I connected my router and all that jazz, nothing changed. I even connected my router to my modem and connected my PC to my new router via that cat6 cable, but nothing changed either. I'm not sure if it's my ISP or the setup I've got going. I have some AT&T internet and their stock modem. Do I need to buy a new modem, upgrade my internet? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

A fellow gamer

 

[shadow23_69]

So, I recently bought a new Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 Dual Band Router and 100 feet of Cat6 cable. My old wireless internet speeds were a blistering 450kbps (I know, fast right?), but when I connected my router and all that jazz, nothing changed. I even connected my router to my modem and connected my PC to my new router via that cat6 cable, but nothing changed either. I'm not sure if it's my ISP or the setup I've got going. I have some AT&T internet and their stock modem. Do I need to buy a new modem, upgrade my internet? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

A fellow gamer

Can you give use more details about your internet with AT&T? What type modem do you have?

 

[SBMfromLA]

What about your wireless adapters? For example, if you have computers using a wireless G adapter... they will continue to use that speed. What is the speed of your ISP Plan? If you have the basic package, you won't see any speed increase. Most of the so-called speed you'll see is mostly via your Home WiFi, like streaming or wirelessly copying files from one device/computer to another.

 

[KnightKv]

Okay, my modem is a Motorola NVG510, the stock router I got a few years ago and my internet plan is probably the basic internet one. See, I'm not the one that pays for it, but I do know it's AT&T and that it's $40 a month. My wireless adapter that I was using was a Bolse 802.11n 300mbps USB WiFi adapter just something I got for cheap.

 

[boosted1g]

By stock modem do you mean a modem or modem/router? A modem has 1 input and 1 output port. A modem router has 1 (or more) input ports and usually 4 output ports as well as having built in wifi.

If you have the latter then if it is really old or defective then adding another device inline is not going to make any difference.

Also as others have stated your router will only connect to the internet at the speed of your internet connection. The top speed of the super car is irrelevent when it is driving in a 20 mph school zone.

 

[boosted1g]

Ok so the Motorola NVG510 is a dated complete and utter pile of crap.

You should tell AT&T it is flaky and request a new modem model, and you woudl prefere a modem only if possible.
You should also check out what packages are avaliable. If you have had this plan for 4+ years it is very possible that they have upgraded speeds since then but since you did not complain they were more then happy to take your $40 for the old connection speed.
You/the owner of the account should see what current speeds are for your area and renegotiate service plan price. You can almost always get them to negotiate for a good bit less then full retail price.
Would also be worth looking at what the competition has to offer as well.

If you can not get a modem only model, then since you have your nice netgear router, you should dissable wifi and put the modem into "bridged mode" which will allow it to function as a modem only and not perform any routing functions that your Nighthawk can do much faster.

 

[KnightKv]

@boosted1g (the website on PC won't let me type anything in the reply box so I'm on my phone, a heads up)

First of all, you're a riot that first little comment about my modem had me laughing.

Okay, wouldn't you recommend buying a not provided modem that's a whole order of magnitude better than the one that AT&T might provide? Also, wouldn't the proposed new modem and router setup be better considering the router can increase the range while providing the 5ghz network? And does the Ethernet cable connection to my PC over the 100 feet of cable degrade the signal?

 

[boosted1g]

Unfortunalty buying a non AT&T modem is not an option.
With Cable there is decent standardization and you can buy third party modems. With DSL at best you can buy the EXACT same model the ISP is using.

As far as new modem/router being better it is impossible to say until you get the model number.
I can tell you that your Nighthawk is going to be better range and better processing power regardless. Now whether the new modem modem/router AT&T gives you will be a big enough improvement for your needs (or have 5ghz band) i dont know.

Cat6 etherent cable is certified for 1gbps speed up to 300ft. Now always possibily you have a defective cable but in general 100ft is perfectly fine.
I can tell you that your modem/router only has 100mbps ports on it.
If you can setup a network file share on the desktop, then you can plug another computer in via ethernet and test how fast you can transfer the file (this needs to be semi large single file (many small files wont work), at least a few hundred megabytes.