{"id":1246,"date":"2016-05-16T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/2016\/05\/why-do-routers-suck-so-much\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:46:28","slug":"why-do-routers-suck-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/why-do-routers-suck-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do routers suck so much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a wireless network in my house since about 2001, and in these 15 years.. I&#8217;ve noticed that the quality of routers has declined a lot. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know if this is caused by my ISP, or by the routers themselves. &nbsp;When I first setup my house, I actually had a dial up modem that would be used to connect to the net.. I then switched over to a cable modem. &nbsp;Since switching to a cable modem, I&#8217;ve had the same ISP the entire time, and while speeds have increased and the number of devices I&#8217;ve had connected has also increased, the overall performance has degraded. &nbsp;I find myself at least once a week and sometimes multiple times a day, having to reboot my router, and my cable modem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone from d-link, to Apple, and now a google On-Hub router, and none of it seems to make a difference. &nbsp;The cable modem is a standard surfboard, that the cable company recommends, even though I bought my own (and have replaced it once already).<\/p>\n<p>I understand that a cable modem setup, actually puts you on a shared network with your neighbors, but that shouldn&#8217;t cause a problem if the entire network is setup correctly. &nbsp;I am wondering if there is a good site for debugging where the problem is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a wireless network in my house since about 2001, and in these 15 years.. I&#8217;ve noticed that the quality of routers has declined a lot. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know if this is caused by my ISP, or by the routers themselves. &nbsp;When I first setup my house, I actually had a dial up modem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aMa8-k6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}