I once bought a router to use for my internet when I moved into my new house just to find out that it “wasn’t compatible” with Verizon’s service. I still have it (because I’m terrible about returning things). Is there any point in keeping it? Is there anything fun or interesting that I could do with it?

    • poVoq
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      41 year ago

      Best is actually to connect the two with a cable, otherwise you lose a lot of bandwidth.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        11 year ago

        I hope it’s not too terrible, purely over wifi. Maybe when my son gets older and wants to play games on his own computer, I’ll pipe a line over to the other side of the house for him. I don’t think his sister is going to care enough about computers to want a direct line to the internet, but if she does then I’ll do it for her too.

            • DaGeek247
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              31 year ago

              Youtube 4k is only 20mbps - any pair of routers with better than 802.11n will do just fine. n is technically 300mbps, but try to push that through a wall or three and it drops to nothing real quick.

              • @[email protected]OP
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                11 year ago

                That sounds promising. Thanks for the numbers. I’m planning to put the second router under their rooms, so I would think that one set of flooring shouldn’t be too bad.

    • @Billy_Gnosis
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      11 year ago

      I did this with my old router and as others have said it effectively cuts throughput in half. Depending on your usage though it might not be a big deal. I only connected mine so I could get a signal in the front yard. It’s fine for surfing the web or watching YouTube

      • @[email protected]OP
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        01 year ago

        If we can at least do that (do simple web crawling and watching YouTube), that’d be enough for me. Thanks for sharing your experience.