Router recommendations for Airtel 1 Gbps plan?

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Just got an Airtel 1 Gbps plan, luckily the team was in the same building setting up another connection. So all the wiring and hardware was all set in 2 hours. The activation is supposed to happen by tomorrow.

I am on Youbroadband 200 mbps right now and Dir 825 ac 1200 router works great, but for a 1 Gbps speed, I had to spend a lot of time today looking up a router that will actually come close to delivering 1 Gbps over wifi, heck anything over 800 mbps and I will be happy.

Which router do you guys use for a 1 gbps connection? What's your experience been like?
 
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Yeah tried that, results similar to Dir 825, For most Airtel user plans, the max people buy is a 300 mbps connection. So they never realize that the Nokia they are given will max out at 500-600 mbps.
 
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DIR 825 is good enough for wired connection but even the most fanciest 5ghz wireless setups will have hard time delivering 800mbps speeds consistently as it depends on a lot of factors your distance, the device you're using etc..
WiFi 6 would be good for this but you need devices that support it


Unless you're downloading stuff 24x7 which you probably won't be considering airtels 3.3TB limit you really won't notice much other than the first few days or weeks of speedtests that you'll be doing.

I have a Netgear R6800 with ideal conditions I get speeds up top 450mbps but I usually don't care about speeds on wifi unless I'm pulling some big file of my NAS which rarely happens on a wireless device
(Hoping to upgrade to 10gig on local network soon so don't have to be limited by gigabit speed )

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This one is right next to the router

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and this with a wall + just 15feet distance and me in between the router and phone
 
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Well the onus should be on Airtel to provide you with a router which can support the service you are paying for.

NAT without hardware acceleration is tough for the router. I have a supermicro C2758 based pfsense router, and it can reach gigabit speeds.
 
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@The_PC_Guy true, on a wired connection it should work great, I think you should be getting more than 450 mbps on Netgear R6800, I imagine in your case your laptop/device is limited by an older 5ghz version.

I agree wifi 6 would be the ideal solution.

I have the latest macbook pro 16 inch, so hopefully the fastest 5ghz support on the device combined with a router supporting 1733 mbps on 5ghz should work since I will be sitting pretty close to it.

My highest use case for data will be backing up the whole disk on Amazon S3.
 
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rajil.s said:
Well the onus should be on Airtel to provide you with a router which can support the service you are paying for.

NAT without hardware acceleration is tough for the router. I have a supermicro C2758 based pfsense router, and it can reach gigabit speeds.
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Yeah it's silly that Airtel uses the same ONT's for all their plans.
 

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@The_PC_Guy I was very tempted by the TP-Link Wifi 6 router, but I don't imagine getting any Wifi 6 devices anytime soon, also looked at the reviews on that router, it's an entry level Wifi 6 router and some people were having issues with AC speeds. So my reasoning was getting the best AC router for now and leave the Wifi 6 for future when I have devices that have Wifi 6.
 
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@The_PC_Guy Check this review for Wifi 6 Router, so basically it's just like a regular AC 1200 router, so no use really for a gigabit speed support.

4. 5 GHz band is as usual have short range. The 5 GHz AC can connect to any device with a maximum of 1200 Mbps link speed, even if supported WiFi adapter maximum speed is higher to 1200mbps. If only AX mode is selected, router can connect to AX device to maximum of 2400 Mbps but it will not run AC mode. With mix mode with AC and AX, the maximum connection speed reduces to 1200 Mbps even for AX devices. So, this router is called AX router with 2400 Mbps for 5GHz or a AX router with 1200 Mbps that can connect to AC devices too, so it is misleading on part of TP-Link. I shared the same on their forum but no response from their representative.
 
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