Ahh ok didnt realize that about the ATV...its the ATV4 and has always been hard wired in.

My problem is I pay for 150down...on my phone, macs or any device that is on the wifi network I never get anything close to 150 at any point in time regardless if I am standing next to it or not. Id say max ever has been in the 80s. The only time I see over 100 is hard wired with a laptop on coxs website. So what this does is as I move away from the router it naturally gets weaker. To the point that if I am in my back yard next to my pond (right off the back porch) I get about 2-5mb down. So I am trying to tweak it becasue to me it seems im not getting what im paying for.

I have the one router on one side of the house and a unifi AP on the other. I am only just starting to try to go through and see if I can improve it.

I also have a Luxul ABR-4400 Router that is not acting as the router that I am probably going to switch too away from the cox all in one unit. But I want to do one thing at a time.

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Posted by Korkstand

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 5/2/16 at 4:11 pm to NOLAGT

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My problem is I pay for 150down...on my phone, macs or any device that is on the wifi network I never get anything close to 150 at any point in time regardless if I am standing next to it or not. Id say max ever has been in the 80s. The only time I see over 100 is hard wired with a laptop on coxs website.

I think you're getting very close to what you pay for. Also, the speeds that are advertised crucially say "up to" somewhere in the fine print.

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So what this does is as I move away from the router it naturally gets weaker. To the point that if I am in my back yard next to my pond (right off the back porch) I get about 2-5mb down.

Well Cox can't do anything about your wireless performance. And the thing about wifi is speeds can drop dramatically with distance, interference, and line-of-sight obstacles. Speeds can also be erratic if multiple devices are connected (or even if just one device is connected).

I think if you just get a nice wireless router like a Nighthawk you will see much improvement in your wifi speeds. And make sure your devices are using wireless-n or -ac rather than -g.

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Posted by SG_Geaux