If at all possible, purchase your own modem/router

[harshness]

Harshness, I can be a few feet away and get the same results on 5Ghz. I really don’t have neighbors so I don’t think there are other networks interfering with it. I do have 5 wireless Arlo cameras in use and one cordless home phone (I can’t get cell service).

The Arlo cameras have their own WAP as I understand it so unless that WAP is somehow connected via Wi-fi to your router, it should represent a negligible impact. If you don't have a wired WAP, you're leaning on your Wi-fi pretty hard with up to five HD streams. Because Wi-fi bandwidth is shared amongst all active devices, the more devices, the more overhead there is in addition to the A/V streams themselves.

A modern cordless phone shouldn't be a problem as they operate around 5.8GHz. Somewhat older phones live in the 2.4GHz band.

 

[seaofblue]

Harshness, would a wireless Genie client affect it any? I wouldn’t think so but who knows. Ill play around with it this weekend when I have time. Thank you for all your help.

 

[harshness]

Harshness, would a wireless Genie client affect it any?

Not if you're located more than 100 meters from all of your neighbors. The WVB should pick a frequency not used by an existing Wi-fi enabled router or WAP. The mini will then look for the WVB wherever it happened to land.

The point of the WVB is to set up a DIRECTV-only Wi-fi network as video is a relatively intensive use of wireless.

If downloading at more than 20MBps to your iPhone is of dire importance, you might check to see if your router has some Quality of Service (QoS) settings capping the speed of any one client.

 

[seaofblue]

Harshness, it’s not of dire importance. I just like messing around with the technology and trying to learn as I go. Thank you for all the input. If I figure out what is slowing it down I’ll let you know. Thanks again

 

[andy_horton]

This is good advice in general but it doesn't completely apply to Charter Spectrum customers anymore. A while back they used to charge a modem rental fee but a few years ago they scrapped that and started charging $65 per month whether you purchased your own modem or use theirs. My parents are still on a modem I bought for them under the old fee structure but it is an old model that maxes out at 30Mbps even though Charter gives us 100Mbps internet now. Charter would provide them a free modem to get full speed service but the 30Mbps is fast enough for their needs so they haven't bothered yet.

When I bought my house about 5 years ago I took the Charter provided modem instead of buying my own because there was no cost advantage to doing so. They gave me a pretty standard looking Motorola Surfboard. At our office they gave us an SMC branded modem/router because they mistakenly signed us up for their WiFi rental fee. We said we didn't want that so the installer put it in bridge mode and let our existing router take over. They also took the WiFi fee off our bill. I was skeptical about this SMC box since I have never heard of this brand and we didn't want their crappy router but speed tests show that we are getting about 110Mbps on our 100Mbps plan.

I do agree that Charter customers should let them know that you don't want their WiFi service even if you take their free modem though. I think it's only $5 per month but you can get a higher quality router that isn't locked down instead and you will still come out ahead on cost after a year or two.

Not being familiar with Charter, if I'm wrong in what I'm understanding let me know but are you ssting they are/were charging extra to use the Wi-Fi portion of the internet service if you didn't provide your own router? As an XFINITY customer and if that's true, I would be thouroughly ticked if charged for using Wi-Fi. Granted we have a 1TB cap and last time I checked Charter didn't due to the TWC merger..Again, it's late so forgive me if I'm mistaken in what I read about the Wi-Fi costing extra.

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[EarDemon]

Not being familiar with Charter, if I'm wrong in what I'm understanding let me know but are you ssting they are/were charging extra to use the Wi-Fi portion of the internet service if you didn't provide your own router? As an XFINITY customer and if that's true, I would be thouroughly ticked if charged for using Wi-Fi. Granted we have a 1TB cap and last time I checked Charter didn't due to the TWC merger..Again, it's late so forgive me if I'm mistaken in what I read about the Wi-Fi costing extra.

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With Charter, on SPP they are moving towards three speed tiers

Internet - 200 x 10 for $65 (most areas still on 100 x 10)
Internet Ultra - 400 x 20 for $90 (some areas still on 120 x 10 or 300 x 20)
Internet Gig - 940 x 35 for $125

These are the a la carte rates, there is a $10 bundling discount if you have TV service. There is no modem rental fee.

In areas where D3.1 is live, generally the modems given out for all speed tiers are Spectrum branded EMTA voice modems, that DO NOT include wireless routing functionality and it doesn't matter if you have voice service or not. There are three models that look identical, but are sourced from different OEMs. The only other D3.1 modem is the Technicolor 4400 that was initially given out when the first Gig markets were launched at the end of 2017, that was a modem only and I'm not sure if they are even handing them out anymore. As you can see from the spec sheet these modems are pretty nice and future proof with 32 x 8 channel QAM bonding and can bond up to 2 x 2 on the OFDM side.

E31H2V1 - Manufactured by Hitron
E31T2V1 - Manufactured by Technicolor
E31U2V1 - Manufactured by Ubee

https://www.timewarnercable.com/con...manuals/E31_2V1 Data Sheet Charter 1-page.pdf


If you want a Charter provided wireless router, one is provided at no charge for Ultra and Gig subscribers. If you have standard internet, it's $5 a month extra. The routers given out are also Spectrum branded and are 802.11AC Wave 2 with 4 GigE LAN ports. The routers use the same nomenclature as the modems. At this time there are no Charter issued all in one modem/router/gateways for D3.1 and these are the routers you get if you have one of the modems above. These actually aren't bad, and if I wasn't adamant on having a separate wired router and wireless access point and if I didn't need the advanced functionality like VPN tunnels and dual WAN failover, I just might opt for a Charter router.

RAC2V1A - Manufactured by Arris
RAC2V1K - Manufactured by Askey
RAC2V1S - Manufactured by Sagecom

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