Router Upgrade or Skip?

[gtr22]

Right now, using a Fios older router, it's good, no problems. Internet speed 30/30. The contract is almost over so I'm looking at their options. 50/50 is $20 more a month, includes a better router. Or I could purchase the best router(AC1750) for $150.00 and skip the speed upgrade. At 30/30 to 50/50
for gaming will I really see any big difference? Same with the router upgrade.

 

[Shreyasforrescue]

Routers are not a big deal if you get the speed what the ISP provides compared to the maximum speed. Instead but that money in some games !

 

[bill001g]

Games use very little bandwidth. The game company wants to be able to sell to the users how can only get a 1mbit dls connection. The vast majority use less than 500kbit up and down.

The place a faster internet helps on games is the initial download on those games that are 60gbytes or more. Still you can just save your money and let them download at night while you sleep.

 

[Solandri]

Verzion FIOS (though I guess now in some places it's Frontier FIOS) uses some wacky modem/routers with confusing and inscrutable user interfaces. In addition, if you have Verizon cable boxes, sometimes they communicate with the router over the cable. So you cannot just get rid of it or replace it with a different cable modem. If you upgrade to one of their newer routers, you have money invested in a router which will only work with their service, and cannot be re-used if you move to a different area and get a different cable Internet company.

If you wish to upgrade routers (perhaps to add 802.11ac WiFi capability), I would recommend buying your own WiFi router.

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  ■Login to the Verizon router.
  ■Turn its WiFi off. On some older FIOS routers there's no way to disable it. Just change its password to random gibberish, so that nobody ever connects to it.
  ■Write down it's LAN IP address (usually 192.168.1.1) and subnet mask.
  ■Turn on DMZ and point it at the next IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.2 if the router's IP is 192.168.1.1).

Then

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  ■Login to your new router.
  ■Set its WAN IP address to static, using the IP address in the last step above (e.g. 192.168.1.2).
  ■Use the main router's IP (192.168.1.1) as its gateway.
  ■Use the subnet mask you wrote down.
  ■Set up its LAN IP address range to a different subnet (e.g. 192.168.100.x). This should happen automatically, but I've seen a few cases where it doesn't.

Plug your new personal router's WAN port into one of the FIOS router's LAN ports. Unplug all other devices from the FIOS router's LAN ports, and move them to your personal router's LAN ports.

The only device plugged into your FIOS router's LAN ports should be your personal router's WAN port. The DMZ function you activated means the FIOS router works in pass-through mode. All traffic it receives is sent to the DMZ IP address, which you've programmed as the WAN port of your new router. So your new router will act like it's directly connected to the Internet, transparently sending traffic through the FIOS router. If you need to do any port forwarding, you only need to do it on your new router. DMZ handles it on the FIOS router. All WiFi devices should connect to your new router.

 

[gtr22]

Thanks for the response. I'll just stick to what I have then. I was looking at the Fios router for sale, the AC 1750.