10 likes in 17+ years tells me a lot too.
Lol, I trade and don't waste time posting comments left and right on this site, sucks I'm not more popular.
Inexperienced router consumer in the market for a new home router, suggestions?
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Lol, I trade and don't waste time posting comments left and right on this site, sucks I'm not more popular.
Most of my posts are related to me asking for help with hardware-related issues, trying to inquire about improving my overall setup, not sure what you are implying by that statement. If I don't know something, I ask.
But, related to your statement regarding doing speed and latency tests, I have been doing those, and so far what I have been confused by is that my wifi speed has actually clocked in slightly higher than my wired in speed at times, how is that possible?
Out of curiosity: can you specify the speeds that you have measured? And for the wifi speeds: how large was the distance between the router and your laptop?
For hardware questions, there are other forums that might be able to give you better advice. You're more likely to find people more knowledgeable about hardware on a hardware-oriented forum such as tomshardware.
Regarding the wifi vs wired speeds, the wired port on your computer or router might simply be slower than the wifi. If it's an older router, it might have Wireless N supporting speeds of around 150 Mbps and your LAN ports might only have 100 Mbps ethernet.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/u.../wireless/legacy-intel-wireless-products.html
You can check your link speed and see what you're getting with both.
Added tomshardware to my bookmarks, thanks for the resource suggestion.
My modem/router is definitely a bit old, it's ISP-based and I've had it for many years (vs. the wifi on my laptop which is brand new - ASUS A17), can I replace that with any random modem/router or do certain ISPs only allow for certain types of devices? I have CenturyLink.
Speed-wise my download was at 44.5mbps and upload at 4.8mbps on the hardwired ethernet vs. 46.17 and 5.13 on the wifi. My router is relatively close by, only about 50ft away, but there are two walls directly in the line of sight from A to B.
I assume that you're paying for 50 Mbps DSL plan? With those speeds, I'd still go with wired as it will be more reliable or at least have fewer things that can go wrong. Even if you buy a new router, it will have to connect to your integrated DSL modem / router through the wired port. So if that's where the bottleneck is, buying a new router won't help. You can try a latency test:
http://ping-test.net/
I suspect you'll get similar results wired vs. wifi. For manual trading though, even latency won't matter that much.
Do you trade futures by chance, being that you are in Chicago?
Depends on the ISP. Comcast used to charge 8 bucks monthly for their router usage, but they let you buy/bring your own. (usually for $30ish, so it was a no brainer to buy one) I think the current version was bought from an approved list of Xfinity routers. You should check with your ISP, because they do upgrade their equipment, they just don't tell you about it until your equipment fails. So check their website.
Yes, but not always. Mainly trade SPY QQQ (or similar market ETF - like the ultra-weighted 3x ones) & the main mega-cap stocks (AAPL MSFT TSLA NVDA AMD NFLX GOOGL AMZN META SQ).
Hardwired should give you about 100 mbps unless your internet subscription has a lower speed. In that case is the speed limited by your ISP and no router replacement will make it go any faster. In that case you'd better contact your ISP and ask if they have a faster plan available for you to subscribe to.