TL;DR questions at the bottom
Hi, we just signed up for the T-Mobile home internet and got the Gateway a week and a half ago as it’s our only real option at our new place, after some fixes we get pretty livable speeds (60 at worst 160 at best).
My family has no problems with it now because they only stream but unfortunately I’m a gamer haha, and this Gateway has a huge Bufferbloat problem making it pretty bad to play video games online, if you don’t know what I mean Bufferbloat is when Ping/Latency increase heavily while doing other tasks that require bandwidth, taking the Waveform Bufferbloat test I consistently scored C to F, the ping sometimes reaching 1000 which is terrible.
Looking stuff up it seems like an external router can and should help with this, not just ping but maybe make the speed more consistent too, but I don’t really know what works, to take care of bufferbloat specifically Waveform makes some recommendations like the IQRouterV3 which is in my price range but I want to be somewhat safe before buying anything so I came here to ask for more recommendations. I saw the Asus AC2900 and other Asus routers recommended in here as something that works but I believe these were before the Arcadyan Gateway existed which is what I have, so I guess my questions are:
-I need a router with Wi-fi 6, dual band, and good SQM or QoS to heavily reduce ping (price range is under $200,) what might work?
-Is plugging in a router even realistic/would help with the Arcadyan Gateway? The FAQ on their website says it’s possible but doesn't specify anything, I heard the wi-fi on the Arkadyan can’t be turned off which has me worried because I don’t know what that entails for this.
Thanks for reading!