I currently use Airtrel Extreme Fiber broadband and on the 300 Mbps plan. Works fine on the router provided by them - Sercomm AOT-4221SR. Wifi speeds don’t matter to me, since my main PC runs ethernet. I plan on upgrading to the 1 Gbps plan and wanted to know if over ethernet, that router will handle a throughput of at least 80% of that speed. I can’t find any speed specifications on that router. I don’t want to go through the hassle of buying a new router and setting up bridge mode, by going back and forth with Airtel’s CS. Just want to use the one router.
Since your current 300 Mbps plan is working fine over ethernet, your router ethernet ports should be Gigabit ports and hence 1 Gbps plan should work well over ethernet.
Could you tell which is the router they provide for the 1gbps plan please, and do we get to keep them or return when closing connection? Guessing might be one of the higher end TPLink routers.
Nah, Airtel doesn’t splurge on the good stuff like ACT. This is the one they give you - AOT-5221ZY
It’s a WiFi 6-enabled router. WLAN coverage is excellent. I get full signal in all corners of my apartment. It’s a shitty router for wireless high-speed downloading, at anything more than 2m away from it (as the speed drops otherwise), even though signal strength is 100%. For me, my main gaming/heavy downloads are over ethernet, which is giving me full Gigabit speeds, so doesn’t bother me. Only my TVs + laptops + phones are connected to WLAN.
In 2009 I closed my Airtel Internet Connection and returned their router also by going to their Head Office and got an acknowledge receipt in return but they kept on sending me Bills for an year and later on in 2010, they threatened me with court case. Then my father along with his classmate who was a High Court lawyer attended the court and put forward the cancellation request, router acknowledgement receipt and all bills they sent me. The District Sessions Court of Hyderabad told Airtel to pay us compensation for the mental torture but they said that they will withdraw their complaint and told the court that I dont need to pay anything.
Yes same router. Have 300mbps plan. I had GX router with which I was getting 300mbps 4ms ping on ethernet but due to an issue I had to replace it. I got this AOT 4221SR in replacement and now I get only 100mbps with pathetic pings (>100) on ethernet.
See the max bit rate in this. Not sure why it’s 100 because I have a cat6 cable and on the same cable I was getting 300mbps on a different router.
Do you know if there’s any settings to enable the ports as gigabit port?
What about over Wifi? Have you tried different ports on the router? Each port will be configured as Gigabit, by default. Because I was getting near 850 Mbps+ on this router, easily before upgrading to a WiFi 6 one.
It could be a router defect/settings issue somewhere.
Make sure you have the lan cable in the lan port 1 of the router
Many routers only have a single 1gbps port, usually yhe first ones. Others are limited to 100 mbps
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