Has anyone used their own router and wifi equipment with Quantum Fiber? If so, can you tell us about your setup and why you choose to use your own equipment?
In my home, I don't have an ethernet cable running to my home theather equipment in the living room area. None the homes here in Osceola Hills and the surrounding Villages of that time had this installed unless you requested it. I had a choice of having an electrician install the ethernet cable or use equipment like a Netgear Orbi to get reliable internet to this location. Because it's difficult to get to the data cabinet from the garage attic with my model home, I choose to get a Netgear Orbi because they have a wireless backhaul capability. What this mean is they use separate 5Ghz and 6Ghz channels just for backhaul data transmission between the main router and the satelites. So, I was able to put a satelite at my home theather equipment and hardwire all my equipment to it. I tested it up to 5Gbs, way more than enough bandwidth using a local speedtest server I set up for testing. The only problem with this arrangement is the Netgear, TP-Link, Erros Wifi7 systems that have this capability are relitively expensive right now. But over time the cost will come down and it's an investment that will future proof you for many years.
Regular wifi set up correctly works fine for my situation and is fine for most people since streaming doesn't need a lot of bandwidth. I invested in this equipment because I wanted to see if I could get "wired" speeds and reliability from this wireless backhaul technology because I often stream from my NAS (network attached storage) device. It was an interesting experiment.
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