Hi all,
I live with my brother and we both like to play online games. The problem is my brother also loves to stream/watch netflix while he is playing and this sometimes really slows down my speed while I'm playing and increases my latency. I'm sick of trying to catch him streaming and telling him to stop while I'm playing, and it's probably not fair. So, I've been thinking about how can I improve it and here are some possibilities I looked into:
1) Get a complete separate internet signal from Comcast (new modem). Based on what I read this is possible, although I would have to basically pay for 2 separate comcast bills. Also I spoke with 3 Comcast reps about this and one of them said that this is possible with no extra costs(unlikely) and the other 2 directly said it's impossible to do that. So I don't even know if this is an option. If this was possible, would it fix my problem?
2) Get a dual band wireless router, I think what we're using currently is a bit old. I'm not sure how dual band wireless routers work, but if it is going to make it so that we get signals that don't interfere with each other, I'd be totally willing to do this.
3) Get an ethernet cable and connect my pc to the wireless router directly while keeping the wireless going as well, but again, not sure if this would actually help my situation cause we're on the same network anyway, wired or not.
Sorry for the long post but I am open to any suggestions. Thanks for your time and help.
I live with my brother and we both like to play online games. The problem is my brother also loves to stream/watch netflix while he is playing and this sometimes really slows down my speed while I'm playing and increases my latency. I'm sick of trying to catch him streaming and telling him to stop while I'm playing, and it's probably not fair. So, I've been thinking about how can I improve it and here are some possibilities I looked into:
1) Get a complete separate internet signal from Comcast (new modem). Based on what I read this is possible, although I would have to basically pay for 2 separate comcast bills. Also I spoke with 3 Comcast reps about this and one of them said that this is possible with no extra costs(unlikely) and the other 2 directly said it's impossible to do that. So I don't even know if this is an option. If this was possible, would it fix my problem?
2) Get a dual band wireless router, I think what we're using currently is a bit old. I'm not sure how dual band wireless routers work, but if it is going to make it so that we get signals that don't interfere with each other, I'd be totally willing to do this.
3) Get an ethernet cable and connect my pc to the wireless router directly while keeping the wireless going as well, but again, not sure if this would actually help my situation cause we're on the same network anyway, wired or not.
Sorry for the long post but I am open to any suggestions. Thanks for your time and help.
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