Suspecting there was something afoul with the recent DD-WRT builds for the R6700v3, I decided to abandon my decade+ of being a DD-WRT fanboy, and tried out Fresh Tomato on the R6700.įresh Tomato, besides having a silly name, was easy to setup, and worked out of the box. Adding additional virtual LANs (VLANs), or bridging VLANs and virtual wireless access points (WAPs) brought the router to a crawl, or didn’t work at all. In fact, I encountered a lot of issues on the R6700 when trying to do things a bit outside of the norm. In theory it is possible to have a second WAN under DD-WRT firmware, but in practice, I was not able to get this working on the R6700. This resulted in gigabit wired in critical locations, and respectable 600+mbit 5GHz performance everywhere that mattered.Įverywhere else had reasonably fast 2.4GHz coverage. The R6700 was the primary router, connected to the gigabit fiber WAN, and hosting the 2.4/5GHz WiFi for the majority of the house, while the Archer C7 was wired in bridge mode to the R6700’s LAN as a wireless access point in the office upstairs. Prior to the second WAN acquisition, I had a Netgear R6700v3 and a TP-Link Archer C7 both running DD-WRT firmware. What’s better is that it’s totally possible to accomplish this with consumer networking devices, without having to purchase (much) new hardware. So, do I convert the entire home network over to Comcast’s asymmetric cable network, or do I keep the symmetric gigabit fiber connection already in place and miss out on streaming?įortunately, there is a third option: connect the streaming devices to the Xfinity network, and maintain the symmetric gigabit fiber for the rest of the machines. Key here is the ability to turn many streaming devices (including a Roku) into a live and on-demand streaming platform for TV with the Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity includes a lot of streaming features, which require being on Xfinity’s network to utilize. When I ended up with a second connection to the internet (courtesy of being a Comcast employee), there was a potentially painful decision to make.
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