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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It effectively cuts it by half.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes sense. I just hope that it's good enough for YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 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.