Inexperienced router consumer in the market for a new home router, suggestions?

HobbyTrading said:
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.
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Just checked into this and my current plan is apparently at 40mbps, but my speed tests were apparently slightly above that, not sure how that works. Looks like I can upgrade to 80mbps for only $10 more a month, that's a no-brainer. Unfortunately, modem-wise, it looks like they only have one upgraded option, and as far as I can tell I have to use theirs (either $15 a month lease or $200 one-time purchase).
 
ET180 said:
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.
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My plan is for 40, but I'm somehow clocking in slightly above that. My ping is 19ms according to the CenturyLink test.
 
jmiles301 said:
Looks like I can upgrade to 80mbps for only $10 more a month, that's a no-brainer. Unfortunately, modem-wise, it looks like they only have one upgraded option, and as far as I can tell I have to use theirs (either $15 a month lease or $200 one-time purchase).
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I'm not sure whether you would need to upgrade your modem if you upgrade your plan to 80 mbps. Your current modem might be suitable for that higher speed as well. You would need to post the modem specifications to check that.
 
SunTrader said:
Geez 40 is slower than snail's pace these days.

447.4 mbps here
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I actually don't have much of an issue with it really. I trimmed down my layout from 7 monitors (in my office) to just three (laptop + two externals). Most of what I do is pretty simplistic, so I don't need the best of the best, however I will certainly be upgrading to the 80mbps here shortly since it's only an extra $10/month. I don't play games or anything like that, so for me it's only needed for signal and basic web browsing.
 
SunTrader said:
Geez 40 is slower than snail's pace these days.

447.4 mbps here
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I'm only running 30 Mbps (fiber, symmetrical 30 Mbps). Have been since 2016. Never found a reason to throw away more money without benefit. It's plenty fast enough for everything I do.
 
ET180 said:
I'm only running 30 Mbps (fiber, symmetrical 30 Mbps). Have been since 2016. Never found a reason to throw away more money without benefit. It's plenty fast enough for everything I do.
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Money in the bank AFAIAC.
 
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Wife is thrilled that I am running Cat6 over the baseboard and door frames to get to my office.
 
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