Anybody need a nice Netgear router with Fast Ethernet?

 It's a perfectly lovely router with dual band wireless, a main and guest network, easy to use browser based administrative interface, and 4 Ethernet ports. It works great, even penetrating the walls in my rambling old house full of plaster and brick and chicken wire.

 

Only problem is: it's an older model and the Ethernet is only 100 Mbps (so-called "fast Ethernet." Which WAS really fast back in 1995 when some marketing genius coined the term. For about 3 years, anyway, and then it was obsolete). I bought this router in late 2018, and really should have been paying more attention - it just didn't occur to me that a modern router would NOT have Gigabit Ethernet. But it doesn't. My bad.

 

I didn't really care, since it was plenty fast for the lowest tier of service from USI (50 Mbps), which is what I had. Until about a month later, when USI unexpectedly dropped the 50 Mbps service and jumped me to 300 Mbps. Now technically, this should still be fine, right? If 50 Mbps was fast enough for me before, 100 Mbps should be fast enough now. But I know I'm paying for that faster service, and I can't help wondering if my perfectly adequate streaming signal in the attic might just look a little better at 3 times the speed. So I bought a nice new Gigabit router during the year-end sales, and I'm finally thinking about deploying it. 

 

So... anybody want the old one?  Just remember that if you have Fiber to the Home from USI this router is not fast enough to take full advantage of the service. If you have Internet from any other source it's probably plenty fast for you.

 

   NETGEAR AC1200 Dual Band Smart WiFi Router, Fast Ethernet    

   Model  R6120