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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
About that speed: the speed only applies if you hook your device (computer, or TV, or laptop, or tablet) directly to the modem. If you are hooked up to a router, and the router is the thing connected to the modem, your speed is reduced significantly since it's on a shared connection.
The more thing you have turned on, that are connected to that service, the slower the speed across each device. If you only have one device and no router, you get that 100mbps easily.
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Well, the 100 mbps is download speed (upload may be different) always measured by the modem hardware, and can be limited by home network devices or broadband useage on your network branch. Device speeds really depends on the quality of the devices in your network, and the load/size of the broad band network to which you are connected. My network design is Modem -> router -> switch -> wired devices with 1 wireless device, (wired to ceiling wireless access point) and 7 wired devices. The switch is a gigabyte switch, so that is not the bottleneck. The nat router is high speed, with two ports, with 1 port directly to streaming hard wired television, and the other to the switch for all the other devices. Wife and I worked on our laptops with streaming TV on during the day, and never have had speed problems (I push alot of data around back and forth). At night with everyone on the TV streaming, occasional buffering issues which is the broadband network branch usage with spectrum in Marsh bend.
With the current network up north, the additional of the entire city school system on video on the network, last 5 months, only 1 day did we have work connection issues, and that was on the spectrum end. . . not ours. However, talk to the neighbors on our branch, and they are always having drop issues, due to their home network design, not the broad band network.
normally, there are always issues with networks which are complex, but always best to have quality home network components, and wired wherever possible.
sportsguy