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It’s a long shot, but have you tried contacting the previous owners? You may be able to reach them through their real estate broker.
In many cases, no. The link speed of your PC is dictated by the network interface in use. Gigabit Internet service with a gigabit Ethernet interface would be an example where they would match.
In your case, you may be using a 802.11ac connection with a 40 MHz channel.
If your router, has a setting to use 80 MHz channels, this can increase the link speed by up to 2x under ideal conditions. Actual results will depend on your environment.
Keep in mind that overall speeds will be dictated by the speed of the slowest link. Switching to an 80 MHz channel may double your PC’s link speed to, say, 800 Mbps but access to the Internet will be capped at 600 Mbps.
BTW, WiFi link speeds are much higher than the actual speed due to the high amount of overhead inherent in WiFi. A rule of thumb is to expect real world speeds to be 50% less than the link speed for WiFi. Ethernet is very different. Overhead is much lower, around 5%. So, even with an 800 Mbps link speed over WiFi, actual speeds will be around 400 Mbps, give or take.
If you only have 3 coax drops, chances are that you only have one splitter to find (and possibly replace). Start by looking outside for the coax cable coming from the street to the house. The cable will often lead to an enclosure. The splitter may be inside it.
The coax cable may also simply go into the house to an enclosure inside the house. It can be anywhere. The garage, a closet, hallway, laundry room, basement or attic.
You should be able to find it.
Those QoS settings are not useful. Since this is the Advanced - QoS section, is there a basic QoS section? There may be more settings there.
Did you check the send/receive rates on your Dad’s PC?
The only other thing I can think of is an IP address conflict. Check you and your Dad’s PC and make sure they are not using the same IP address.
I’ve heard that some satellite TV splitters are not good for MoCA due to high port-to-port isolation. That Amphenol is supposed to be a good splitter. But if you aren’t using all 4 outputs, maybe get a 2-way for lower loss.
There likely won’t be any difference. But if your ISP is using DOCSIS 3.1, then you will be helping them by not using DOCSIS 3.0.
There’s no point buying a second router. If you are thinking it will offload some work from the first router, it won’t. An Ethernet switch may be all you need if you want to connect both devices to Ethernet.
I don’t own an Asus but I have recovered routers of other brands. It’s been years since I recovered a router so I haven’t kept up to date with the latest developments.
I assume that the recovery process you tried was the Asus Rescue Mode. If not, it’s documented here.
If that doesn’t work, many routers have a serial port that can be used to assist with the recovery. I found this post that lists the steps. It’s for a different Asus router but it will probably work on yours.
As you’ll see, it’s quite involved and requires you to buy a special type of serial cable (called a TTL-level cable). The cable is readily available on Amazon from a number of places and is not that expensive. It’s certainly cheaper than buying a new router. You have to open the router to connect the cable to the serial port inside. Then follow the process to start a TFTP upload of firmware.
Take a look, then decide if it’s something you are willing to try. You probably don’t have anything to lose other than a few $ for the serial cable.
Good luck.
The destination is showing a small amount of packet loss. It could simply be overloaded.
Since you have fibre Internet, do you know where the ONT is located? Is there any other wiring located near the ONT besides the Ethernet cable leading to the useless cupboard? If there’s coax, then MoCA is a good alternative to Ethernet. You could put the router near the ONT and feed the MoCA network. Then install one or more Wi-Fi Access Points in the house to provide Wi-Fi. Dump the Powerline adapters.
Here is a prototypical MoCA setup (courtesy of gocoax.com for a fibre Internet setup). Popular MoCA brands in the US are Actiontec (Screenbeam), goCoax and Motorola.
