Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I had to hard wire to all rooms . Wireless just never worked good. I'm in Duval here in The Villages Now I get 900 to 950 mbps download speed all the time now and 40 upload speed . I fought with the cable company for years getting the speeds and speeches from customer service on the phone. Not a problem anymore. I'm still with xfinity.
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As most know, I've helped many here in the Villages get installed with Quantum fiber and once you find the location that works, it works 100% of the time on all installations. As far as wiring, sure direct ethernet is best but often these days, most have wireless computers and wireless streaming devices. The only time I'll have a room wired is when someone has a desktop computer near an ethernet jack. If anyone needs some help, please reach out to me. This seems like a hard problem to solve but it's not. |
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Either way, you will never get link speeds wirelessly unless you are very close to your wifi regardless what anyone tells you. Also, if you have an older device, it will never run at 1Gbs, so the device will also play a role in the speed you actually get. Also, I haven't see the post in this thread yet, but someone will eventually comment that you only need 100Mbs speeds anyway but that depends on how you are using your internet. |
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What I'm finding is a good Wifi7 wifi device placed on top of the kitchen cabinets works well in every Villages home, even a premier home, that I've been in. Some homes have an odd layout that may require an additional extender or node but that's about it. The reason why this works is because most are streaming and using a wireless laptop or tablet so as long as they are getting reasonable speed all over the home, it's fine. Very few are looking for or need full speed at all points in the home. |
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Using a VPN *could* affect speed. With a VPN you don't connect directly to the site you are trying to reach. Instead, you encrypt your traffic and send it to the VPN service where it is decrypted and sent to the site. A good VPN service should be very fast but if it isn't then it would show in the speedtest.
Easy enough to check - simply disable the VPN and run the speedtest to see if it makes a difference.
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Just because you have a Gig internet connection, that means nothing to your internal lan. No ISP knows how to setup an internal lan, they put 1 router somewhere in your house and leave. So much more to it. 1 router won’t cut it, I have 4 mesh routers inside my house and 1 router in my garage, most wired and a couple using the proprietary 2.5G backhaul to communicate between routers. I can go anywhere in and outside of my house and get over 800Mb on wifi.
Don’t fall for the cheap/worthless wap’s, or extenders that plug into an electrical outlet, they don’t work. Do it right, spend a few bucks and you won’t have to worry about it for a long time. If you get a mesh network, get at a minimum the 6e or 7, don’t get anything older. Also, you know how to tell when your isp or network guy doesn’t know what they are doing? How many ssid’s (wifi names) do you have? If it’s more than 1, you hired the wrong people to touch your network. I’ve had the same ssid for decades and will have it for the foreseeable future. |
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As I have written many times in answer to this statement, I have one router in my home and enjoy 250Mbps - 300Mbps throughout my house including my garage. YMMV of course and in some cases a single router may not provide the range or the speed that you desire. If you're in one of those cases then sure, spend the time and money to build a complex network and accept the maintenance cost that comes along with it. *IF* the OP's issue has to do with the wifi strength at his computer then more hardware might be necessary. However, if his PC is negotiating 1.2G and his phone is downloading at 1G then the wifi just might not be the problem.
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Except for one person, the only Villager's whom I've seen set up a network like that are people in Premier or higher-end homes where they tend to have the funds to hire a professional to install such a system. I'm sure there are may individuals who will go out and install an Orbi or TP link or Ubiquity solution but I'll bet it's a minority. As far as bandwidth is concerned and I'm sure you know this, if you have fiber you have the full bandwidth available to you both upload and download, unlike cable. But as you said, unless you have a well layed out internal network, you won't be getting full speed everywhere in your home via wifi and most here don't need or care about that. I recently had a Villager call me. She had Quantum fiber a couple of years ago and could never get it to work properly so she went back to cable. She called me because her cable bill was out of control and needed help. I signed her up, wired up the rj45 jack in the kitchen and in her office, got the Quantum tech to install the Wifi7 device over the kitchen cabinets and she has good wifi coverage all over her house and lanai, problem solved. Price locked in at $50/month, no taxes, no fees, done. Last edited by jrref; 08-30-2025 at 11:44 AM. |
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Jrref - it’s not that much money. I think I got my buddy a 5 pack of the latest mesh network routers for around $300. I used a 5 year old router in my garage to extend my wifi into the garage.
If you use just wifi to connect all your TVs, ecobee thermostats, and pretty much all your home devices, you are using the 2.4ghz band which has terrible speeds and latencies. 1 of the reasons I use this many routers is because I come out of the router rj45 ports into my TVs/dvd/streamers and all these devices are using 1G speeds, not the slow 2.4gjz band, huge difference in speed and latency. The other reason I use so many routers is I have fully automated my house and control it from anywhere in the world. I stream music to all my home stereos plus I stream to all my cars anywhere in the country. Plus, outside cameras require so much bandwidth to work right. |
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In my house, I have an Orbi 980, 3 node system with wired backhaul on one node, every RJ45 jack is wired back to the low voltage cabinet and to my main Orbi router eventhough I'm only using one line to my office and I get almost 100% speed to over 80% of my house. Way more than enough for what I'm actually using eventhough my wife and I are computer geeks. Using an internal speed test server I'm able to get almost 8GBs wired and 5Gbs wireless max speeds with this system. Never going to use that much bandwidth but I wanted to know what the system was capabile of. |
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WiFi can connect over 2.4GHz or 5GHz. Used to be those SSIDs were different names, so it was easy to know how you were connected.
Connecting to a 5GHz can give you up to around 1300Mbps while 2.4GHz max is anywhere from 100-600Mbps. 2.4 goes farther, through walls better, whereas 5 does not. With modern equipment it negotiates the best frequency to get you the best speed. As an aside, what are you all doing that you require a gigabit connectivity?
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the fastedt connection you will get is a wired connection from your pc to your router wth a cat 5 or 6 ethernet cable. only that will tell you what bandwith you are getting from your isp
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