Router question?

[Fred Claus]

I'm not sure this is a router issue, but I will ask anyway. My internet speed is 100/10. Wifi speed we get is between 75 and 90 normally. From time to time the wifi will go down. Everything that is connected hardwired will work, but what's connected wireless goes down. If I unplug and reconnect the power to the modem/router it comes back for a couple days then goes out again.

We have 5 mobile phones, 2 tablets, 2 Roku's, 1 Xbox, and 2 computers wireless connecting to the router. We have a third computer that is hardwired.

Right now I'm using a Linksys CG7500 modem/router combo that is about a year old.

I do notice that when my son is downloading some of his games the speed is lower but that's because he's pulling a lot of bandwidth.

Now for my questions.

1. I own the modem, is it still possible that the cable company is throttling my wifi because I don't pay the rental fee to own their crap?
2. Is this issue something that I'm going to have because I have a slow internet with multiple devices and a gamer son using it or is the issue the equipment?

I was looking at something like the TP-Link Archer A9 or the Netgear Nighthawk routers. Both are around 100.00 but I'm not sure if that will solve the issues we have or not.

Thoughts?

 

[Sky-Knight]

1.) No.
2.) Again No.

What you're experiencing is what I consider normal for home grade garbage network gear. You can try to replace it with more garbage, and you might have better luck. But for me? I turned off the wireless entirely, and used a Unifi WAP and never looked back.

All of this seems a little end userish to me... You having an off day?

 

[glennd]

What you're experiencing is what I consider normal for home grade garbage network gear. You can try to replace it with more garbage, and you might have better luck. But for me? I turned off the wireless entirely, and used a Unifi WAP and never looked back.

I did the same thing. Totally gave up on router wifi.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

A single person....nor several people...should not saturate a 100 meg connection. Gaming is mostly about moving a lot of small packets fast...low latency. It's not large volumes of data....not tons of bandwidth.

For gaming you want a good more powerful router that has a good amount of memory for the state table, as well as good QoS.

I'd see a good pure bridged modem, and a more powerful router. When my son still lived home, he was huge into gaming, as was I. He also loved to torrent a lot of stuff. I had a PFSense router..which is one of the best firewalls for traffic shaping/QoS. No matter what he did, never affected my online gaming.