I purchased this to replace a Surf Soho that I’ve used for my home router for the last year and a half. The Surf Soho was good but had begun showing reduced connectivity and throughput while I’ve been working from home along with lots of video streaming activity (mainly Disney+) on the home network. The more powerful processor and high throughput on the Balance 20X let me take full advantage of the 500 mb/s down and up FTTP internet connection. Also, I was able to order a SIM card and add a line on my cell plan with Consumer Cellular for $15/mo to take advantage of the built in LTE modem on the Balance 20X. While bandwidth drops to about 20 mb/s down and 5 mb/s up on the LTE, the failover from fiber to LTE is seamless and it does provide sufficient connectivity to allow me to continue working from home. (Other streaming activity does need to be restricted while operating on LTE so as to not burn through monthly cell plan data allotment as well diminished video quality while on LTE.)
Date Added: 10/25/2020 by Calvin W. (Grapevine, TX)
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