About a month ago Comcast doubled its speed. We received a letter from them saying the same. There is a ton of promotion from the local phone company for half the price of Comcast. So they felt compelled to differentiate this way.The last time I checked, I was getting about 35 down and 9 up (wired) and now this. Apparently Comcast must have done something to speed up their service (and didn't bother to let me know).
To get there though, you need to throw out the consumer wifi devices and get enterprise class ones that allow you to install multiple units. I have two, one at each end of the house and have superb reliability to boot.
Sure. You want two things in your wireless access point:
1. Ability to have more than one station. With a single station, you get fast speed close to it and poor performance away. With enterprise class access points you can deploy more than one and even set their range. This means you can put them close to the place you will be using them the most. Wifi speed is highly dependent on distance.
2. Reliability. Consumer Router business is super competitive. Companies ship products quickly with little testing and as a result, you wind up with failures every few weeks if not more often. Enterprise access points and routers are tested to much higher quality and reliability since down time creates high IT costs.
Now, traditionally such products are fairly expensive and require training/expertise to install them. There is a company however called Ubiquity that is turning this market upside down. It produces near-enterprise quality products but prices it at consumer levels. Here is the product I (and my company heavily) use: http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Netw...qid=1387147198&sr=8-2&keywords=ubiquiti+unifi
As you see it is just $65 -- an incredible value at 5X that amount. Here is the problem though. The software on installation can go wrong and getting it working again can be a bit of a nightmare. If you manage to get it working, it is "set it and forget it." It will run like a swiss clock. I reboot mine maybe once a year. You would not believe how much better life is at home with this product. Make sure to get at least two of them if you go this route. Read the first two reviews on Amazon and you get a more detailed picture of what I just mentioned.
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