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Home Networking Router Upgrade? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

So we have a Netgear WNDR3400v3 Netgear Router at home and a Arris Surfboard SB6141 Cable Modem at home.

We are currently paying for a 200 MBPS (download) and 100 MPBS (upload) plan through Comcast Xfinity. We are not even noticing those speeds, and we would like to potentially upgrade something.

The cable modem (Arris) Seems very old... so it could be that, but I wanted some opinions on this first.

Any suggestions on what to upgrade?
Please DM me any upgrade suggestions.

If it is the cable modem, anything cheap or budget that supports our current internet speed will help.

Thanks so much,

Andrew

P.S.

is this a good modem upgrade?

on amazon: "NETGEAR Nighthawk Modem Router Combo C7000-Compatible with Cable Providers Including Xfinity by Comcast, Spectrum, Cox,Plans Up to 800Mbps | AC1900 WiFi Speed | DOCSIS 3.0"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

both units are very old. the router is a wireless N unit from 2012 that doesnt even support gigabit (needed for 200mbps speeds) and the modem is an old docsis 3.0 8x4 unit. You would be best off buying new of each if you want to actually see 200mbps or higher. Comcast is annoying and they only allow 100mbps upload on very select modems, only four to be exact, the hitron coda, hitron coda56, arris g54, and the netgear cm2050v. If you dont chose one of these, you will be limited to 10mbps upload. All are very expensive, except the coda, which can be found for 90 dollars on amazon. It would depend on your budget on what router you can get, but I would pick the tp link ax3000 which is 99 dollars on walmart.