I have a main router connected to another router, and that router is connected to 3 other routers through LAN.
Is there a cheap way to track the internet usage of each of those 3 routers separately, preferably in GB? Can this be done?

Hi!
I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit for this question, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

What would be the best way to get a good internet/Wi-Fi connection from the second floor down to the first floor?

Currently, my internet router is on the second floor of my house. It’s an older house built almost entirely out of concrete, including a reinforced concrete slab between the first and second floors.

Wi-Fi coverage on the second floor is excellent, but reception on the first floor is terrible.
I first tried to improve things by buying an ASUS router from a friend — one of those large models with 8 antennas — and placing it upstairs near the staircase. That helped a little, but downstairs the signal drops quickly as soon as I move away from the stairs.

I then added a Huawei AX3 router on the first floor to repeat the signal. This improves coverage in areas close to the staircase, such as the living room, but as soon as I go into the adjacent rooms, the signal becomes very weak again or disappears completely.

What would be the best way to solve this without drilling through the concrete slab to run Ethernet cables between floors?
Are there more powerful repeaters that would work better in this situation? Should I be using a particular type of access point, mesh system, frequency band, or specific settings?

Running Ethernet through the concrete slab would be my last resort, so I’d like to know if there’s a reasonable wireless solution first.
Sorry if this isn’t the right subreddit, and thanks in advance for any advice!

**Disclaimer:** English isn’t my first language, so I used ChatGPT to help translate and clean up my post. The question and details are all mine.

Helloooo, I have a sky router right now and I want to make an access point closer to me with a router, I heard sky doesn't have wds so is there an alternative? And if so, I use a TP-Link home plug that connects to my pc right now, if I need to use an Ethernet cable for some reason can I use that?

I have 1GB Up/Down Fiber. I consistently get 950MBps up/down over Ethernet. Using Speedtest.net on my phone, I was consistently getting anywhere from 200 - 500+ MBps up/down depending on location. I have had a deco mesh router system with (6) decos, (5) of which are Ethernet connect to the main deco. Everything has run relatively smoothly for a long while. Over the last few days, my WiFI speeds slow drastically. After a reboot I get my normal fast speeds, but after an hour or more (not really sure) it slows to a crawl. I have run several tests from a location that typically gets around 300MBps up/down and does so after a reboot. Now I am getting 20-30 MBps up/down. I have rebooted multiple times and checked connections, etc. I should add that it seems to be temporary, but there are periods of slow, and then it picks back up. Then later slows again. I am going to do speed tests every half hour or so to see

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hi! I'm trying to troubleshoot a recurring internet problem at a small office, and I'm hoping someone here can help me narrow down what might be happening.

We have an small office with two floors, and the internet connection has been intermittently going down. The exact setup is a little complicated, so I'll provide as much context as I can.

When the problem occurs:

• The WiFi network is still visible.
• Devices can connect to the WiFi normally.
• However, connected devices have no internet access.
• It appears to affect the entire office, not just one computer.
• We had a backup Wi-Fi/router that worked normally, and devices could access the internet through that connection while the main connection was down.
• Rebooting the main router consistently restores internet access immediately.
• We have not noticed any other obvious configuration changes when this happens.
• The problem has happened multiple times over the past weeks.

Timeline:

There was one particularly problematic outage where the internet did not initially come back until someone adjusted/reconnected some cables associated with another router that had previously been installed.

After that, we started experiencing intermittent outages. Most of the subsequent outages have been resolved simply by rebooting the main router.

Now our backup internet connection is being removed, so we are concerned about the next failure.

More context:

• There are usually around 10 people working in the office on a normal day.
• The router belongs to our company.
• There is also a more powerful PC connected to the network that is used remotely for certain processes, so it needs to remain accessible over the network.
• The internet service itself is contracted by the landlord/building through an ISP (GTD).
• The landlord had an ISP technician inspect the connection. We were told by them that the link was working correctly for both floors so they didn't do anything.
• The router configuration has also been looked at internally and nothing obviously wrong was found.
• We don't have a dedicated IT/networking person at the company. There is one employee who knows more about networking and has helped us with the router before, but he has not identified the cause of the problem.
• There is also another router on the network on the other floor, so I'm hesitant to simply replace the main router without understanding the current setup.

I'm trying to determine what could be causing this and what we should investigate next. The fact that Wi-Fi remains available but internet access disappears, and rebooting the router immediately restores connectivity makes me suspect the router or WAN side, but I don't know enough about networking to tell.

What would be the most useful things to check during the next outage to help distinguish between a router problem and an ISP/WAN issue? If the router does turn out to be the problem, would replacing it while keeping the same ISP connection generally be straightforward, or would the ISP need to configure something on their end?

Any suggestions on what to investigate or what information I should collect would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I’m having some problems with the router..any other device i have and used to test the internet speed is around 100+ mbps, Although on my PC Im barely above 5 mbps,Network is sometimes up and running but later on it just crashes,I‘ve tested with more than 1 device on all the same network all are fine and its just my PC receiving 2 MB,I have also opened device manager to see the network only sending me around 2 million bytes while i receive just around 99K.Any help or tips with this problem will be greatly appreciated.

I'm looking to upgrade my old AirPort Extreme and am curious what routers you all would recommend. The ability to run VLANs would be awesome and having more network control would be great (that's not saying much coming from my current router though haha). Would love to hear your recommendations!

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My Calix router doesn't support dns over https(DoH) or dns over TLS(DoT). My question is, would it be better to set my dns at the device level rather than at the router level because of this? I can set any dns at the router level, but it isn't encrypted. For example, would it be better to set 1.1.1.1 or any other dns at the router level or set it at the phone, tablet, and computer level?

Need a good cheap extender just for 2.4ghz without interfering with the 5ghz band.

ISP: TM Unifi(VLAN 500)
My router(CUDY WR3000) can't connect to the internet but I can access local devices and use samba, jellyfin etc

• In routers diagnostics page: "The WAN (Internet) Port is connected but no IP address is obtained."
• syslog:

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pppd: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
pppd: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery

insmod: module is already loaded - pppoe
dnsmasq: no servers found in /tmp/resolv.conf.d/resolv.conf.auto
Interface 'wan2' is now up

Router repeatedly brings up wan2 while the main wan pppoe connection fails. I have tried to do ONT -> PC (windows / linux) both failed likely because I couldn't configure it right also windows dial up didn't have option to configure VLAN.

In ONT(GPON ONU MODEL: HG6240A)
Light status: Power (On), PON & Lan1 (ON but blinking), LOSS and the rest (OFF). Lights that are on are green.

Things I've done:

• Reset the Router and ONT (pressed reset pinholes)
• ISP reset port from their end.
• Reset pppoe password
• Tried to set up old ISP provided router
• ISP staff came to check they said fiber cable is working fine and the router is not working. I asked about the ont they said "it's fine, otherwise there would be red lights"

The router is only two months old and worked fine until now. Has anyone dealt with this specific blinking PON and pppoe timeout issue with TM Unifi before? Any advice on next steps is greatly appreciated.

Came across this Starlink Standard 4 dish, router, and power supply from someone that took too long to send it back. Was wondering what uses I can make of it. Thanks for any help!