Yeah, I haven't had any issues with 4-5 switch hops. Likely not hitting any saturation on any one switch. But it drives my OCD crazy. My last house I wired to be home runs to all the rooms with multiple ports for a single star topology. And then only a few switches for things like printers, the AV cabinet, and test devices. It annoying knowing that this house's wall jacks are dependant on a switch in another room so if anything happens to one switch it can take multiple rooms down.
I never had roaming issues of weak signals and drops with my last small office design using Aruba APs with decentralized controllers. But I wouldn't spend my own money on that for my home. Luckily now that I have moved my single wifi point to the center of my house, the wifi is great everywhere including the garage.
I don't have the funds for it right now, but I would love to upgrade to the Arris S34 or Hitron CODA56 cable modem (Both support mid split for faster uploads), and the ASUS RT-BE92U or similar Wifi 7 by Asus.
Unless money is the prime concern, stay away from the Hitron modems. They use the inferior(IMO) Intel PUMA CPU and they designed the firmware to make it difficult to access the 192.168.100.1 diagnostic page. I suggest the S34. Still not sure what the difference is between the S33 and S34, but I think they might have stopped manufacturing the S33 so the question is moot.
Upload speed is tricky. I tried to make a post on the subject but none of moderators were able to answer. I think it is beyond their understanding.
Thanks. That is great information. I will focus on the S34. The only difference with the S33 and S34 is that the S34 supports the mid split function for faster upload speeds than the S33. Won't matter for the Gigablast plan, but still...
I don't think Cox does mid-split like Comcast does. For one, they don't classify any of their modems as mid-split compatible. Also, Cox offers 100Mbps upload over HFC while Comcast offers 200Mbps. Maybe any D3.1 modem will work up to 100Mbps mid-split but you need a special one for 200Mbps.
Most areas that have mid-split should have the speed tier system where your upload is 1/10th of your download. So gigabit is 100Mbps upload. You look like you are capping around 50Mbps
And there is no point saving a small amount on the S33 over the S34. Now if the S33 was half the price of the S34, I would just go with the S33 and not worry about Cox using split in the future.
I just saw this page which made is easier for me to see the specs: https://www.cox.com/aboutus/policies/speeds-and-data-plans.html
For the Gigablast "Go Super Fast" plan, max UPLOAD speeds = "35 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 940 Mbps, or 1 Gbps based on the network architecture serving your physical address [...]"
It sure would be nice to get 100 up with my Gigablast plan. I stream and upload content a lot, so that would be a huge speed up over my 35-40 that I get now. And since Down/Up combined is what is counted towards the 1280 GB per month, I wish Cox would support faster uploads for the Gigablast non-fiber plan.
