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#318351 9-Jan-2025 10:52

Hi we were part of the My Republic being bought out by 2 Degrees changeover......we are now being charged $103/month- i can see a lot of seemingly better offers even from 2 Degrees themselves.

Spark seem to offer free Netflix which we are already paying for and also free Premium Spotify which would be nice for $96 for 311Mbps dl which i think is similar to what we have. Even paying for their Max Fibre at $111 would be cheaper than what we are currently paying when you take into account the free Netflix.

If we did changeover would 2 Degrees want back our router/modem (which came from My Republic)?

My other question is- Our PC has slower speeds and dropouts than other devices and elsewhere in the house (aside from the far end of the house)- despite the PC being only about 10m or so from the router. Could this be an issue with a network adapter and is it worth looking at upgrading it?

Thanks in advance..........

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#3329470 9-Jan-2025 10:55

Is PC connected via wire or wifi??

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#3329477 9-Jan-2025 11:11

It sounds like to me you don't need Gigabit either. Save some money and just go down to 300/100Mbit and I highly doubt you'll notice the difference.

But as @Spyware mentioned your PC should be connected by Ethernet, not WiFi.

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benfolds

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#3329479 9-Jan-2025 11:18

It is connected via wifi...but basically in the same room as the router. Its a pretty new PC so it's odd that it drops out so often.

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#3329481 9-Jan-2025 11:26

With Wifi, it can be interrupted by a lot of other things using/generating radio as well, so range dosent always mean much.

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#3329482 9-Jan-2025 11:28

benfolds:

It is connected via wifi...but basically in the same room as the router. Its a pretty new PC so it's odd that it drops out so often.

Are the antennas connected??

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#3329485 9-Jan-2025 11:37

And is it using 2.4 or 5GHz? Whilst 2.4 has longer range its a more congested spectrum (somewhat as a result of its longer range). I've found it far less reliable than 5GHz (where that is in range).

Could also be a driver issue - that's worth checking also.

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#3387197 26-Jun-2025 13:34

Hi there

I was with MR business until they moved up to 2D. And I just recently moved from a business to a residential acc.

They are ok with you to keep your MR router, Only issue I had was that the residential acc uses a CGNAT and that means that I had to also get a static IP for PLEX media server to access outside remotely.

The business tech support have the manuals and knowledge on the MR router if you had a problem.

cheers CD

P.S. get rid of the wifi stuff