Cutting the Cord from Cable company

[Gman]

ARRIS & MOTOROLA

21 May 2015
Today, ARRIS is announcing that as of year’s end, we will no longer be using the Motorola brand on our retail products.

Since our acquisition of Motorola Home two years ago, we’ve anticipated this transition by accelerating our investment in making ARRIS the trusted name and global leader it is today. Now, we’re ready to usher in the next wave of industry innovation under the ARRIS brand.

When we acquired Motorola Home, we inherited a 60-year legacy of award-winning innovation—including the legendary SURFboard® line of products.

To be technical, Arris primarily makes modems/gateways for terminating a network at your location. I think the question was about routers.

Routers are primarily defined on what you plan to do with it. Are you looking for primarily amazing WiFi coverage, or do you need 8 ports for wired Ethernet connections?

If you're like most people using a lot of WiFi devices, the new 'mesh' systems are pretty slick. I recently setup my folks with a 3 node Linksys Velop mesh system since they have a complicated home layout with their office terminating their cable modem on the far side of their ranch style home. Was easy to setup using the phone app, and I can manage their network from 1500 miles away. I used a 4 port switch to interconnect the equipment in the office to the Velop node that's also connected to their cable modem. Lots of bandwidth over their entire home with lots of streaming video and no issues.

At home, my home office in the basement is fairly centrally located in the basement of our ranch style home. I bought my router before the mesh networks began to show up on the market. I went big with the Linksys EA9500 Max-Stream™ AC5400 MU-MIMO Gigabit Wi-Fi Router. I get great throughput anywhere in the house, garage, back yard, wired or wireless.

You need to figure out what's important to you and then find the solution that provides the solution that you're looking for.