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    Need help troubleshooting cable failure; also, which standard (T568A or T568B)

    Thanks, for your help. I have passed this on to our contractor. Abe18
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    Need help troubleshooting cable failure; also, which standard (T568A or T568B)

    Can you help me to troubleshoot why a recently installed CAT-6 cable doesn't work? A general building contractor was hired to fish wire through the walls from our basement router (D-Link DIR-655) to an upstairs office 70 ft. away. Previously, the upstairs laptop connected to home network...
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    Help needed to optimize speed for new DIR-655 and DWA-642

    This weekend I upgraded our home network by installing a DIR-655 to replace on old 802.11b Linksys router and added DWA-642 adapter client to our laptop. I am not a "techie," but performance is less than I would have expected and adapter client manager doesn't work on the laptop; I had to use...
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    Need help in getting iperf/jperf to test network performance

    jperf steps Thank you so much! Opening up port 5001 on both machines did the trick. It took me a while to figure out how to do that; but once done, I was able to see that my old 802.11b Linksys is transferring data at a rate of 4.04 megabits per second. Other Jperf tests showed that it takes...
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    Need help in getting iperf/jperf to test network performance

    Following Doug Reid's articles in April 2008 about measuring network performance using iperf and jperf, I have not been successful in using these applications to test my network's performance before putting installing a new DIR-655 router, gigabit nic, and wireless n client adapter. Can someone...
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    Setup sequence in upgrading from b to gigabit n

    This may be a stupid question, but I would like some advice about the sequence in transforming my setup from 802.11b to 802.11n. I will be replacing the existing router (old Linksys, new D-Link DIR-655), an adapter card for the laptop (old Dell with new D-Link DWA 642 or 652), and a pc nic...
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    CAT6 cable advice needed

    Are all CAT6 cables the same? I just purchased a D-Link DIR-655 router and an Intel PWLA8391GT PCI PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter 1 x RJ45, for which I will need a 10 foot cable. Are all CAT6 cable brands the same? If not which do you recommend. Also, this cable will be sitting amoung a dozen...
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    router upgrade recommendation for distance

    How to interpret link test results for use with throughput charts Can I use the information from my wireless client's (Dell TrueMobile 1150) link test to inform me as to what I should be looking for in terms of the data presented on the downlink throughput charts? The link test shows that the...
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    router upgrade recommendation for distance

    Ok. So "client" is nothing other than the adapter card, right? If so, I was fully aware that I needed to have a "matching" adapter card to go along with the N router. Indeed, when I bought the laptop 7 years ago, I expressly ordered one with an external pcmcia slot so I would be able to...
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    router upgrade recommendation for distance

    Thanks for your response. Is it possible to search your charts filtering for best performance at long distances? I didn't see that that is an option. What is a draft n client? If you are referring to the software that interacts with the router, wouldn't that come with the router? If it has...
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    router upgrade recommendation for distance

    I recently joined this forum and have read a number of the thorough reviews as well as the posts. However, I have not seen anyone specifically address what router would be best in the following situation: We have two home offices in our split-level home. In the basement, a desktop is connected...
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