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R6050 AC7050 power light stays amber, no wifi
My R6050 AC7050 has worked the last few years. Now when i turn it on the power light stays amber, and none of the other lights come on. There is no wifi. User manual has no siutation where power l...
bgswsi wrote:
Are there home providers that offer more than 100 mbps?
Sure are. Plenty of people turn up here with 400 Mbps services and some go up to !000 Mbps.
In many countries anyone offering less than 100 Mbps these days wouldn't stand much chance.
Just as important for some of us is local network traffic. With half a dozen NAS boxes, an Arlo camera system and various media devices, I would struggle with local traffic stuck at 100 Mbps.
I am surprised that Netgear still lets any 100BASE-Tx routers out of the building.
Who are some USA providers that offer more than 100 mbps?
bgswsi wrote:
Who are some USA providers that offer more than 100 mbps?
The US is famously bad at Internet services.
New Report States US Has World's 13th Fastest Internet | Allconnect
That report says:
Americans are currently getting around 204 Mbps of download speed and 74 Mbps of upload speed through their fixed broadband connections — good for 13th in the world and nearly double the global average
The rest of the world is ahead, especially in South East Asian. (Think Korea and Taiwan.)
A quick web search suggests that a lot of people can do a lot better than 100 Mbps.
Fastest High Speed Internet | 2021 ISP Guide | U.S. News
Xfinity – up to 2,000 Mbps
Mediacom - up to 1000 Mbps
AT&T Internet - up to 940 Mbps
Verizon Internet- up to 940 Mbps
Those speeds would leave an R6080 standing in the dust.
It would be nice of they offered the same here in the UK. Then again, I am not one of those people who thinks fast is essential. At ~65 Mbps I sense no slow downs. But even at that speed I would not want to have a router crawling along at 100 Mbps.