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Re:The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a rou... by uvw on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:30PM (#23033499)
I have a Comcast router modem combo(group contract through HOA, so free for me). My advertised is 125 Mbps and I do hit close to 125 when I use many of those speed test websites.

When I set this hardware in bridge mode and try to use my own router with dd-wrt, my speeds drop to below 50 Mbps.

I could never figure out why.

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Re:The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a rou... by BenjiWiebe on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:54PM (#23033819)
What speed did you get in bridge mode with a single PC directly connected to the modem? Perhaps your router was hitting some hardware performance limit when doing NAT and everything at full speed.
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Re:The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a rou... by uvw on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:28PM (#23034288)
No different. The speed even with ethernet never go above 50-55 mbps.
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