Frontier Fiber wifi router expansion: I'm giving away a router

[@GamerMacOne]

Awesome Video

[@SchubertTech]

Thanks!! Appreciate the support and kind words :)

[@OutlawNix]

It's 2024 spending $40 - $50 dollars on a router that only has 100Mbps Ethernet ports is not wise at all. There is quite a few broadband providers that their basic internet plans is higher then 100Mbps. Example my provider which is Spectrum their basic internet plan is 300Mbps then they got 500Mbps and then 1Gbps which is what I have. Would be far better to spend say $80 dollars and get something like the Dynalink DL-WRX36. Which is a WI-FI 6 Router that supports WPA3 and has a 2.5Gbps WAN port and 4 Ethernet Ports at 1Gbps. Using the 1Gbps Ethernet port you will be limited to at best 940Mbps due to the overhead. As for using 5GHz you are limited to about 866Mbps due to the fact the 5GHz band on the Dynalink DL-WRX36 only allows up to 80Mhz channel bandwidth to be used. I own the Dynalink DL-WRX36 Router and must say it's not a small Router at all. lol

[@SchubertTech]

I can't argue. I also have this nagging feeling the box might be wrong. Gigabit is so common now, as mentioned, in 2024. It even says, "New for 2024". Why make a router "new for 2024" that's got features common in 2014? If no one enters the giveaway, I might break the plastic and push a gig to it and see what happens.

[@OutlawNix]

​I looked up that model of router online and every where I looked said it has 100Mbps Ethernet ports. My gut tells me that router will have at best some sort of a dual core CPU. I upgraded my broadband internet connection to 1Gbps couple days ago and had to upgrade the router to take better advantage of it. Reason being the router I was using had features that was common for routers 7 years ago. The router I was using had a dual core processor and the processor usage would go really high once you reached 600Mbps mark. At that point the there was no consistent speeds to be had it was all over the place and would not even hit 940Mbps. Even though the router I was using before was a Wi-Fi 5 router with 1Gbps WAN port & in fact had 1Gbps Ethernet ports. I believe it's down fall was it only had a dual core processor and it could not just handle the 1Gbps broadband connection. I guess 1Gbps broadband connection was not common thing for people to have at home 7 years ago.