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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
You are mostly right except I have 3 local ethernet connected devices (server & 2 clients) that greatly benefit from the faster gig-e speed switch in the router and I don't want to buy a switch. Also that modem in question only supports up to 10Mbps Dsl speed as I noted in my reply need vdsl2 (as you do) and get 25Mbps DSL. 10/100 4 port built in switch on the router has nothing to do with wi-fi just the hard wired ethernet connections.
Was looking at the Actiontec on eBay which was what I would go for if I have to mnake the switch to C.L. They're around $29-$39 used so I figure it's worth a shot. Just have to see how ComCrap responds to my cancellation. Hopefully it will all be moot. I'd prefer to stick with them for the 100Mbps internet speed which I now have.
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I have some video camera servers running, security system, irrigation, one Desk top, my laptop, two cell phones, magic jack, two tablets, and two rokus. The wife can be streaming a HD program at the same time I'm doing the same. Never skips a beat. It works well. I used to use a separate Netgear Router attached to a Cable Modem. Originally was setup the same way when I first switched to CenturyLink. I had Marion County Cable. While the customer service for Marion County Cable was better then CenturyLink, Marion County Cable Internet pricing was way out of line. I decided to bite the bullet and dump the Netgear router and just use the ActionTec. Surprisingly the setup of the ActionTec was extremely easy to put my cameras out on the Internet. However there is one gotcha with the ActionTec. It will not let you loop back to talk to a local device. If you want to see if your configuration is correct to allow access over the Internet, you must get on a different network to check it out. I have no idea why they did it that way. Spent several hours with the CenturyLink Trouble Shooters. They never did figure it out, I finally saw a post on the internet. Went up to our club house and sure enough, it worked just fine. Could log into all my cameras, irrigation, etc. You can do it on your network you just have to use he devices local address. Can't loop out to the internet and then back in.