I installed a Gryphon router yesterday because the ATT supplied combo gateway doesn't radiate good enough Wifi. The problem is, Ms BA has basically come out of retirement to tutor three Berkeley schoolkids as well as two of her own grandkids back in New York and needs good signal. Office is too small to use hardwire from gateway on her laptop to do all her teaching shit, which she does with two devices (laptop and phone on mount). Our house is only 1500sf so you'd think the Gateway would be good enough, too many obstacles I guess. The Gryphon is expandable for mesh booster thingamajigs though I doubt I'd ever need it. I dont need the parental controls, none of that shit that it comes with.
But to be honest, I am too old and an okay boomer. I have no idea whether I did it right, because it's so f@#cking confusing.
I followed the supplied "app" directions, as opposed to the ATT direction. The app said to use same SSID and password, whereas the ATT directions had all this stuff about disabling the gateway, using "bridge" mode blab-blabla. When I finally made it to the page where I was supposed to do all this shit, I couldn't figure it out which thing to disable and didn't even see anything about a bridge.
Everything works, but I have no idea whether my devices are reading the old gateway or the new modem but it seems via speedtest that its better. But the Gryphon does function as a new nightlight for our home office.
The devices in our home are beyond my understanding and control. It's such a sinking feeling. I have a Cat 5 cable to the gateway that the rats chewed, yet it still works and gives us about 300 whatever per whater for upload and download.. I already ran new cable to replace it but don't know how to terminate either end, especially since they installed some kind of fibre connection to my house. The asshole Uverse guy who upgraded to fibre cut the cable to my wall jack (wired by previous Uverse guy), then reterminated the wire and jammed it between my wall plate so it goes directly in Gateway. This made the coaxial jack (it's a dual jack) sit permanetly sideways. I can't figure out why he disabled the jack, whether it's necessary or what. If I knew this answer, I'd follow a Youtube video and buy the tools at Home Despot to redo it. I LIKE wall jacks. I LIKE to be able to unplug and move shit. I would rather have a set of jacks in my basement and hardwire everything tbh. I have a full open basement so it's easy to run cable up.
I think I need to go to night school to learn how to be an Internet installer so I can have freedom from ignorance or from sitting home all day from work to make sure Uverse guys don't pull shit on Ms BA when they honor their four hour window.
Gryphon seems like a nice company with a niceguy founder with a touching message. But all is illusion so who knows.
But it's a great nightlight and new source of brain-cancer causing death ray waves in our casa.
I think I am more like the average user than techy people, which is frightening.
