TELUS Boost or Google Wifi

Hi Airwick

I took a different approach here.     I have been a TELUS customer for quite a while,  but making a couple changes with my home network over a year ago  has vastly improved my wifi performance.    This is what I did.

I have tried several different third party solutions  (linksys,  netgear etc,  with use of repeaters)  and really trying to move data wirelessly through the house,  and there was never a good solution that I could get to work  (wasted hours,  wasted weekends tweaking networks,  and wasted money)

What I did was have a TELUS installer come back into the house,  and we ended up installing a moca adapter where each of my five TV's  are  (since there was a coax port where the TV was),  which then connected to an Optik TV portal  and a TELUS Boost with an ethernet switch.   I also plugged a moca adapter into my office and have a switch in that room for all my wired devices in my office.

I also turned off all wifi settings on my ActionNet router,  so all the wifi is handled via the TELUS Boost nodes across the house,  and I have 5 of them  (which appears to be the max amount of boosts you can use)    

When running tests via fast.com,  my wired devices show a speed rate of 1Gb,  and my Apple mobile devices typically show a speed of at least 500mb from anywhere in the house.

TELUS wont give out those moca adaptors for free, and I find installers will not offer them as an alternative since they can be pricy.  It had a cost of about $75 per drop in my house for each of the moca adapters,  and the ActionNet router has the coax adapter right on the back of the modem.      In total,   it was well over $700  (adapters and boosts) to get myself set up with the extra hardware from TELUS,  and the beauty of it is....

1)  Optik TV has never worked better across the house (since it's all wired,  not wireless) since I do have 5 TV's

2)  I never hear complaints about the internet in the house

3)  TELUS supports all the networking hardware,  and they can troubleshoot all this remotely.   If there is a problem with it,  they will fix it 🙂

4)  I get some of my life back,  since Im not spending hours of time trying to troubleshoot a third party wireless system that just wont perform the way I want it.

Just some thoughts, 

-Joe