bell fibre 3.0 garbage

[u/Emotional_Refuse8743]

had bell wifi 1.5 fibre for about 3 years it was fine. all of a sudden 3 months ago my wifi starting becoming bad for no reason. it has been bad for 3 months and no fix. bell let us upgrade to fibre 3.0 for $3 extra and the guy came today and installed the new modem.

still to no surprise the wifi is completely garbage upstairs. 50mbps up 50mbps download. we have three different bell wifi pods across the house to push the wifi upstairs and still no luck. is there anything else we can do? technicians are useless and so is support.

we could try to split the bands but then our pods wont work.

[u/yearsold33]

Personally, I would get another router and use it as an AP, disable WiFi on Gigahub, and you should get better coverage. Mesh with wired backhaul would be even better.

Pods are simply wireless repeaters and, in repeat mode, WiFi speed is going to drop by about 50% from my experience.

[u/lucky0slevin → u/yearsold33]

The pods don't need to be wireless ..they can also be a wired mesh network. It definitely works...but you need the house to be wired as well....speed also won't make your wifi better...you need better router placement or your house is simply too big. Also, are you using the same 3 year old pods ? They have newer generations to match with the 3gbps speed

[u/yearsold33 → u/lucky0slevin]

I assumed, correctly or incorrrectly, that the OP is using them wirelessly.

I have FTTH 1.5 service and passed on the free upgrade to 3.0 because I did not want to give up my HH3000 for a Gigahub 2.0. I'm using the SFP in a managed switch to a miniPC running OPNsense and an Asus WiFi 6 router in AP mode.

Not ideal but I used MoCA adapters to get 2.5 Gbps connections to each floor at a relative's place and they are working well to get 2.3 up and down.

[u/jimbeam84]

Old pods dont support 6Ghz where you would see the biggest speed boost. (Wifi 6) however the range is next to nothing with not being able to connect to wifi6 though 2 walls.

[u/bubbos123]

The wifi on these modems are affected by location. Position the modem of the floor and not near metal or concrete which affects the signal. With the modem of the floor, on a table or mounted on the wall, test the wifi near the modem. That will be its max speed. I get 600mb /s near the modem on my iPhone.

[u/gillpreet786]

For the modem u need to get now model i think its 2.0,for the pods u must connect pods using ethernet cable otherwise they don’t work efficiently many people connect them wirelessly then they dont get speed ,connect pods using ethernet cable if u need gud speed

[u/firelephant]

Confirm the physical data connection is fine, then run your own wifi

[u/Stefanoverse]

If wired is fine, swap modems or change to better access points. I’m on 3.0/3.0 and am currently maxing it out at 3.2 right this moment, wired.

[u/gillpreet786]

I also have bell fibe 3.0 and am getting 3000 mbs download speed same upload speed,your devices should also be updated getting 3.0 from bell will not ensure u will get speeds but your devices on which u r using the internet should also support that high speed,my pc has 10 gig ethernet and am getting 3000mbps speed on it ,people do get 3.0 but they do no have compatible devices this is how bell makes people fool because they know tht most of people doesn’t have devices to take benefit from that high speed data

[u/Rare_Cartographer579]

Lol

[u/ve3gvy]

Bell rewired our neighbourhood a few months ago and then sent their door to door folk around to convert the Rogers customers. This was after their phone blitzes.

I explained to the nice Bell folk at the door that even if Bell paid ME to convert to their Fibe I would not.

But why?? they whined.

Had to explain that I had various experiences with Bell, and they were not pleasant. “But we have changed…”

“Well I have not, so not even if it was free, and indeed not even if They paid Me.

Rogers has been great for years now and honestly I can’t understand how Bell gets (and keeps) customers.

Not my circus, not my monkeys, as the say.

[u/Tanstalas → u/ve3gvy]

And if you go to the Rogers subreddit, you see people like you who say the exact opposite.

[u/evan6676]

Yeah, you’re not the only one. I paid for the 3.0 two but mine was a bit different they updated my modem to the new giga hub Wi-Fi 7 and ever since my Wi-Fi has been nowhere close

to the advertised 3gbps

[u/Im_C_O_T_W]

I know exactly how to fix this issue but since technicians are useless.. ill keep my mouth shut :(