re: AT&T Fiber, who has is? Do you like it?

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how do you have your gateway and orbi set up? which gateway do you have?

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The BWG210-700 or whatever it is. Been on the service for 5 months.
Orbi plugged into it and local network out of 10.0.0.x to my devices on a 48port Gig switch.
My 2 satellites are hard wired to the Gig switch.

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Does that have the 1tb datacap?

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unlimited

I have had it for years and the service is reliable. Many of my coworkers have Cox and experience issues frequently. It is so bad we use to term “Coxed” to describe the experience.

Have it...Love it.

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On the laptop? I will need to check. I do think I have some kind of something inhibiting me. I log into the ATT modem and do a speedtest from their internal app, and it says I'm getting 900+ up and down.

Just did a speedtest from my work laptop, it's 1 year old and wired in so pretty current on HW, and got 20ms ping, 252.01 down and 133.80 up. No TV's or other streaming going on.

I wonder how much I lose by going from Modem>router>switch. And I wonder how much constant bandwidth my 8 cameras are using to send to the console.

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The modem speedtest shows the connection is fine. I'm guessing everything else is a matter of which server is being used to test for your laptop among other things. 20ms is a very slow ping.

I am lucky as there is an At&t speedtest.net server within KC (where I live) and my ping to that server running through speedtest.net website is typically 2ms. I will see 930+ up and down to that server.

Other servers are slower to me.

Also, this doesnt apply to you most likely but I have an older server that will only see 300Mbps up/down through a browser but when using the speedtest app in win10 it will see the full 950+ up/down throughput. The app has much less overhead and worth a try for anyone seeing questionable results.

I have it, speeds are great & consistent, service is always up.

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wonder how much I lose by going from Modem>router>switch.

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you dont have a modem. Fiber comes into the ONT with ethernet out. If ATT wasnt a bitch, they would then let you connect any router to that Ethernet and approve your mac address. But no they require their gateway with hardcoded security certificates to approve the handshake between ONT and Router.

So if you want to run your personal router, as a router and not just a AccessPoint, you need to set your gateway to ip passthrough (BGW210) or DMZPlus(5268AC). Then i would go into your gateway and confirm it is sending gig service to the ethernet port the new router is on. as shown here.

This is how i have mine setup. I also told the gateway to use the 172.16.X.X ip so i could run 192.168.1.X on my Orbi.

I idk what ATT over the past few years but i tried all this many times and could never get gig speeds. And i just did this 2 months ago after running the ORBI as an AP and got it to work. IDK if they did a hardware update or what.





Just now. Not the 9ping 998 Mbps i got a few years ago though.

I think I found what you have below, my screen looks different though.

It's Home Network | Configure. Then I have Ports 1-4 with Ethernet an MDI-X dropdown options for each of the 4. They are all currently set to auto. On the ethernet I have auto, 100Mb, 10mb, 1Gb full and half duplex options. For MDI-X I have auto, on and off.

Should I set my port to 1Gb full duplex?

I have it!! No issues!

This is while my wife is streaming 4k in the other room. I know some people hate ATT, but my experience has been nothing but great. Plus no bullshite data caps!