Once you price those out ($300 or so and up) you can decide whether getting that small bump in numbers on your speed test page is really worth it. Of course you also need to have all your devices in the same room as the single access point to enjoy the best performance. If you have any 802.11G stuff on your network, performance of everything will drop to match that older gear. 802.11AX(WiFi6) equipment will provide better performance *if* you have the multi-radio/multi-antenna equipment that is required for multi-stream connections. You can get excellent performance from a single wireless access point *if* your access point and client devices are ALL upgraded/replaced with the latest WiFi type stuff. ![]() If you really want to squeeze every bit of performance out of WiFi you need to get enterprise/business WiFi access points that either have a centralized controller or mesh design. Unless you have 10 people in your house using that service all day or you use it for some kind of money making activity, you're wasting your money on service you can never actually use. You should probably cut your service with Centurylink down as well, as you say you can only really peak around 600 Megabit even when using a wired connection and most real services (not a speed test server hosted at Centurylink) will give you more like 300 Megabit. What was wrong with the Centurylink router? 300 Mbit on wifi is excellent. Would that help? Is there some way around the PPPoE problem, so I could take the Centurylink router out of the system? Or should I just return the Eero devices? ![]() I have not put either Eero or the Centurylink router into bridge mode. When on the Eero network, I get wifi speeds significantly slower than when on the Centurylink network, even in a room far away from the Centurylink router but right next to an Eero repeater. I can't connect the Eero router directly to the modem because it requires PPPoE, and so I have followed Eero's recommendations and have it "double NATed"-essentially running a second Eero network in addition to the Centurylink router's network (although they have different IDs). So I thought upgrading to the well-reviewed Eero mesh system would be an improvement.īut it's not. But with wifi, even in the same room as the router, I seldom get above 300Mb/s, and often in other rooms get less than 100Mb/s. ![]() 600Mb/s, as measured by browser tests like and Ookla. With an ethernet cable, I get a speeds ca. I have fiber from Centurylink at my home, with a Centurylink-provided wifi router.
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