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T3200 and Home Network woes
I have a very basic knowledge of networking, but by no means an expert. Located in NW Calgary. I have the Internet 75 plan, which is the highest available in my area until they can get fibre instal...
How many devices do you have in total on your network? My experience with the T3200M is that it struggles when there are more than 20 or 25 devices. That's one of the reasons I run an Asus router inside my network. I currently have anywhere from 45 to 55 devices connected at any given time. I'm also on Internet 75 and I work from home. No issues at all.
As for the speed you are getting log on to the T3200M and run the speed test from there. It's under Advanced Setup/Modem Utilities. That will eliminate any WiFi issues you have from the equation. Do it when your network is not busy to get an idea of upper limit for speed.
26 active devices on my network, and another 5 that are idle.
Ran the speed test from the embedded web server and it reports average down as 37Mbps and 9 up.
However, that does not reflect the true stability and reliability of those speeds when we are unable to watch TV, can't connect to our home security services, my laptop drops from the wireless network every 20-30 minutes, and downloading content over the Internet - whether it's over the Xbox or work file, I never get more than 5Mbps download speeds.
When I'm trying to get Gigabytes of files, it's taking hours to complete, and I'm having to watch SportsNet in 480i.
I'm going to try to get a hold of technical support again, find out what my options are, but I can never seem to get a hold of anyone and call backs are at the most inconvenient time.
Ran the speed test from the embedded web server and it reports average down as 37Mbps and 9 up.
However, that does not reflect the true stability and reliability of those speeds when we are unable to watch TV, can't connect to our home security services, my laptop drops from the wireless network every 20-30 minutes, and downloading content over the Internet - whether it's over the Xbox or work file, I never get more than 5Mbps download speeds.
When I'm trying to get Gigabytes of files, it's taking hours to complete, and I'm having to watch SportsNet in 480i.
I'm going to try to get a hold of technical support again, find out what my options are, but I can never seem to get a hold of anyone and call backs are at the most inconvenient time.
