Thinking about treating myself to a decent router

[Phil2008]

I might change it back to the old AP as I think it might give better wifi coverage as its got 3 antenna's, but the small AP has only 1, but I can place that higher up. I'll see how it goes.. The next thing I am going todo is extract the proper username/password from the sky box or try to anyway, then I'll be set up for fibre when it comes available. But I still don't know about the MER thing, has sky scrapped it or not?

 

[BigT]

I don't know how to make this any clearer but neither your Access Point nor your router is the issue here. You can swap and change all you like but the Wireless G on your laptop is going to be the limiting factor period.

 

[Phil2008]

I don't know how to make this any clearer but neither your Access Point nor your router is the issue here. You can swap and change all you like but the Wireless G on your laptop is going to be the limiting factor period.

I not bothered about the wifi side personally as I hardly use it anyway, its the rest of the family that uses it for phones,ipads, laptops.. ah yeah my laptop is the oldest laptop, but I only do a bit of net browsing with it... Other then that I use my desktop pc and thats wired in the router.

 

[bledd]

OK, but plug that into a gigabit switch and transfers around your internal network will be at gigabit speeds. It's only when traffic goes out to the internet it'll go via your router and be limited by the 100Mb connetion, but your internet isn't going to be that fast anyway. That port won't be a bottleneck.

It will for LAN traffic.

 

[BigT]

It will for LAN traffic.

I thought switches remembered MAC addresses and so if all your LAN devices were gigabit and plugged into a gigabit switch then even if your router was plugged into it via a 100Mb port it wouldn't slow LAN to LAN transfers that didn't need to go via the router? The only traffic going to his router is the internet which is sub 100Mbit.

 

[bledd]

I thought switches remembered MAC addresses and so if all your LAN devices were gigabit and plugged into a gigabit switch then even if your router was plugged into it via a 100Mb port it wouldn't slow LAN to LAN transfers that didn't need to go via the router? The only traffic going to his router is the internet which is sub 100Mbit.

I was replying to your 'it's ok to put the WIFI point on 100Mb port' comment. this will limit the WIFI-LAN traffic to 100Mb.

 

[BigT]

I was replying to your 'it's ok to put the WIFI point on 100Mb port' comment. this will limit the WIFI-LAN traffic to 100Mb.

I think you mis interpreted my post. When I said plug "that" into your 100Mbit port I meant a Gigabit switch not the AP. The AP would also go into the switch.

 

[bledd]

^My bad, skim read the thread

 

[ChrisD.]

There's nothing I can see in what you posted or what you linked to that says they've stopped using MER.

There's information there that suggests that you no longer have to extract the Sky username and password and can use generic credentials instead. That's not the same as them removing the requirement for MER and accepting vanilla PPPoE connections instead.

I hope I'm wrong as it would make life easier for many people.

If such a change had happened I would have expected more Internet chatter on the subject and I can't see anything significant.

Sorry what I meant was that it appears you don't have to faff around with wireshark anymore, which was the thing that took the most time (in my case anyway).