COX Cable Modem Question


Unfortunately COX has a monopoly in my area. I have 250Mbps service and routinely get to almost 300 over WIFI.

My streamer and Amazon TV are hardwired into the "Panoramic" modem/router using $35 Pangea cables. I have a Blue jeans 6a cable on the way just to test.  There are only 2 CAT 5 ports.

Is there any benefit to using a dedicated router for the A/V gear (connected to the Cox box) or is what I have set up as good as it will get given the COX router that I have to use?

Any other suggestions?

(I have 4 Ring cameras, a Netgear MESH extender, 2 phones, 2 PCs, and an iPad connected over WIFI)

 

Thank you.

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Showing 1 response by ghdprentice

It is so what dependent on if you like fiddling with IT stuff or would rather not. If not… the better the streamer you own the better the sound will be. A good streamer isolates, noise wise, from your network connection and buffers the file… making the network connection relatively unimportant. My streamers work even when I can’t update a web page on my iPad. I recommend Aurender streamers.

 

Alternatively, you can fiddle with your routers, connections, regenerators, linear power supplies… etc… basically cleaning up the incoming pipelines. If you like IT and tweaking this is great fun and can bring the same benefits of getting a good streamer.

I was in IT for most of my career. I don’t want to screw around with the network. My vinyl leg sounds the same as my streaming leg and with high Rez files better than my CDs. My streamer works from a wall wart wifi extender and an Ethernet extender did not improve the sound… I have a high quality streamer.


So, either route can improve the sound greatly.