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th31
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More of a rave than a rant.

My Dad was having some trouble with a game disconnecting on the PS4 and he read somewhere that it might be a problem with our home router. I didn't think it would be, as every other game works fine. But there was no talking him out of it. And to be fair the current router WAS kind of old.

So I have a look at the one he's decided to buy and it's some massive triple-antenna beast for well over a hundred pounds. I felt like such a weapon might be overkill for 2 people in a house, but did say that it would definitely help with connection issues in some rooms and I kind of wanted to play with it.

So he got it and oh am I glad he did. It has so many fun toys, including a built in VPN. Right now I live abroad so there's a few services I used at home that I can't access, I was literally just considering buying a vpn the other day. I found this while setting up port-fortwarding for my Raspberry Pi to run a discord bot I'm building. I had condisered putting a VPN server on the Pi but this works too!

It also has built in DDNS from ASUS, which IS cool, but our IP hasn't changed in years so I'm not sure we'll need it. I set it up anyway just in case though!

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    Our old router was from 2010 or so. Needless to say, it was so shitty it restricted the speeds we were getting. It was so bad, we were getting less than half of what we paid for.

    I thoroughly enjoyed the new speeds lol
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    @jhh2450 I think this was was probably about the same, maybe older. It was also the one supplied by the ISP so probably sucked even more. The speeds weren't TOO bad but they weren't consistent either with multiple people using it.

    To be honest I hadn't even really thought about the speed upgrade, got distracted by all the toys xD
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    @th31 I was severely disappointed in myself. I typically remind my parents to update their technology, do monthly like virus scans, and so on. How did I forget to upgrade the router (and modem at that. Our ISP had been involved in a merge, so it rendered our modem useless) for so long? 😬😭🤦
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    @jhh2450 Haha yeah it's easily done. I think a lot of people don't realise how underpowered it could be and let it become a bottleneck.
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