Hi everybody, first let me give you a little back story. I've had performance 50/5 and was using my own Zyxel brg35503 modem with 4 channel bonding. My router died and I didn't have the money at the time for a new one so I rented a DPC3941T gateway from Comcast which is using 16 channel bonding. I also upgraded to Blast 105/10 for an extra $5 a month at the same time. I recently found out I could get a free Asus TM1900 (AC68U) router from T-Mobile so I picked one up. Since I have it now I don't need the gateway from Comcast and have reconnected my Zyxel modem and will return the gateway today.
Anyway if my understanding of channel bonding is correct the node I'm on will have a certain number of channels available that are each capable of around 40Mbps that myself and anyone else on my node shares. So during times of congestion I'm more likely to see slow downs if I'm only capable of using 4 channels as with this Zyxel than if I had a modem capable of 8 or 16 channel bonding. Is this correct?
I live in a large apartment complex so I would guess that my node would be congested, but I've tested my speeds throughout the day and night and have never seen any slow down at all. I would have expected there to be a lot of congestion after 6pm when everyone is normally home but I haven't noticed any. That being the case is there any reason I should worry about upgrading to an 8 or 16 channel modem right now?
Thanks.
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