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Gen 3 Rogers Ignite Router

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Upgrade your internet Rogers says to the fastest internet in Canada. Turned in my Gen 1 router for Gen 3. Gen 1 Router worked fine...fast Wi-Fi throughout the house. Gen 3 Wi-Fi is slow as F. Many complaints about same issue online. Fixes? Make sure your coaxial cable is tight and reboot router. Everything new seems to be getting worse!

Any Rogers techs on here?

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
 
I have never liked bundled routers for pretty much this reason. Especially now since they could use this situation to upsell you to their mesh product ("WiFi Pods") when the problem is their hardware just sucks.

I absolutely understand why they do it. It's 10% a "value add" that they can charge you slightly more for and 90% to have a fully managed device to cut down on tech support calls from people who will never understand how to set up a home network. If you manage to really screw it up they can just reset it remotely. Performance just has to be good enough for the average shoebox apartment.

If it were me, I would bypass the home router part of their device and use my own. I don't know anything about Rogers Ignite specifically, but sometimes that can be non-trivially difficult
 
Not a fan of ISP routers either. Just as much as I hate ISP provided email address.
I have a client now who is moving from Cogeco to Bell Fibe.
They have a business email from Cogeco and now we need to transition to another email service provider.
 
2 in 1 modem/routers will never be as good as a dedicated router and rogers is notorious for having the worst hardware of the big 3. Their hardware is all Comcast junk from memory, so you may have better luck searching the internet for Comcast xfinity issues.
 
No idea about that specific router or the differences between the two you had. In general, most routers are shipping with one wifi network showing which has both 2.4 and 5 GHz channels in it and it theoretically picks the best one. In practice, I find many hold on to 5 GHz for far too long and connection goes to crap. Split the 2.4 and 5 GHz networks to two separate SSID's and that gives you more control. For data heavy locations close to the router, let them use 5. For roaming devices like phones or tablets, put them on 2.4 and see if that improves things.

Alternatively, maybe it just grabbed a bad channel that is popular in your area. An app like Fing lets you see what networks are around and what channel they are on.
 
This. It's $20 cheaper per month for the same Ignite 150, but the Gen 1 router has to be upgraded to the Gen 3. As soon as I put my Gen 1 in the mail, got a confirmation email, the Wi-Fi slowed down. I see "pods" mentioned in the fixes. So they want to sell you more hardware. The Gen 1 Router worked perfectly fine. According to the salesperson, the Gen 1 is still working through "telephony" (barely legible English from the Philippines), and the Gen 3 is on Fiber Optic. Yet it's slower by a Gixxer Brah mile!

Everything is getting worse...on purpose. Everything has an angle to ripp off the end user.

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
 
sburns said:
I would roll your own WIFI setup, and only use the rogers combo gear to access their network and turn off the WIFI, essentially making it modem only.
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Good idea!
Even better, call Tech Suport and get them to put the modem in "bridge mode".
 
Some modem/routers from Rogers can't be put into bridge mode.
I tried this a while back and they wouldn't do it. Cant remember which one it was but I think it was the CradlePoint model.
 
oioioi said:
Some modem/routers from Rogers can't be put into bridge mode.
I tried this a while back and they wouldn't do it. Cant remember which one it was but I think it was the CradlePoint model.
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While not ideal, if they won't allow bridge, you could still connect a router or AP to the modem and then connect all your devices to the device you own and control.
 
GreyGhost said:
While not ideal, if they won't allow bridge, you could still connect a router or AP to the modem and then connect all your devices to the device you own and control.
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Worst case one ends up with double NAT, while networking people will consider that a giant no-no it is unlikely the sky will fall or the house will catch fire....

The owned WiFi router may also support bridge mode to prevent this if the home gateway does not.

Getting vaccinated for COVID may also speed up the WiFi.... anti virus and all.
 
Double NAT has been an issue for access to certain security cameras and even "home clouds" from remote.
Port forwarding or a registered DNS may be ways around that.
Those are not a straightforward set up and bridge- mode will avoid that hassle
I don't understand why ISPs refuse bridge-mode.
Also what is it about giving fixed IPs, that is another "something" that is either difficult to get or if available, is another cost!

(I am no techie, I just muddle through network stuff)
 
My Rogers modem is in the basement and the wifi signal was poor, so years ago bridged it and set up 2 interconnected routers at far ends of the house.

Last time I tested internet speed my Rogers Gigabyte internet ran at 925 - 950 mbps on my desktop. The desktop is hard wired via CAT5e cable directly to the router.

On same router, my laptop was running at about 425 - 450 mbps on wifi.
 
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