Recent content by Alex Atkin UK

I'm curious how much of a drawback upgrading older laptops to the AX210 is going to be as the antennas wont be tuned for 6Ghz. Has anyone tried that yet? Or were these tests already doing that?

Basically you need a pair of ethernet economisers, they are cheap off Amazon or eBay. Like I said, the HG612 CAN be reconfigured to send both WAN and LAN out of any of the LAN ports, if you have access to the Web UI. But your router needs to also support using its WAN port both to bridge to...

On the contrary, if you want WiFi clients to still be able to connect to the AC68U then its THAT which needs to be the WDS bridge. You would then have the DG834G connect to it in WDS Client mode. There are a lot of caveats here though that mean it may not work. 1) WDS can only really be...

I'm not entirely sure what configuration you mean but I am almost certain you can do it on OpenWRT as it gives you full access to the underlying Linux OS and network configuration. Although I have never been a fan of running a VPN client or server via a router as their CPUs can limit your...

I believe most if not all dual-band concurrent routers can have a client on one WLAN with an AP on the other, at least if they support OpenWRT. I actually do the reverse of this on my TP-Link TL-WDR3600, with the Internet (actually a connection to my main WLAN) on 2.4Ghz to get it across the...

Not necessarily and if that was the case why wouldn't you suggest an 802.11ac model instead as that allows more leeway. If they really were going to do heavy data transfer on a regular basis, there is still no substitute for good old gigabit ethernet.

I guess that does describe using all bandwidth, but I don't believe they were suggesting that was an actual use case just that 150Mbit is a restriction if that DID happen. It doesn't really alter the outcome that 300Mbit is better than 150Mbit but suggesting they upgrade their router is...

Except, the OP didn't say 6 devices concurrently trying to use ALL available bandwidth. I have an old Nokia N900 connected to my network at 802.11g speeds, but only as a VoIP phone. As its using barely any bandwidth, it doesn't make a big difference to the other devices even though...

You're overcomplicating things for no good reason. For all intents and purposes OP was correct, devices connected at 150Mbit WILL increase contention with each other (because all file transfers will take longer) compared to if they were connected at 300Mbit. That is all you need to know. The...

A couple of problems with that. a) I have returned the adapter because it was consistently bad on different OS with different drivers, including Linux which by its nature uses the stock Realtek source code. b) There are no drivers for the AC chipsets on their site anyway.

And that is with all 802.11ac class adapters which theoretically should be more efficient than 802.11n, although perhaps also less optimised drivers.

I never get as fast as you from the built-in adapter, although perhaps that is an iperf issue? If you look at my first post again you will see I already have a dual-stream 802.11n adapter which gets 119Mbit down, 96.8Mbit up. That is about double what I get (on average, my first post is all...

I mentioned all the link rates on my first post. ;) Yes I disable the internal WiFi before testing. Its highly suspect though that the drivers Edimax recommend (Windows Update) refused to work at all. Also the Linux test was done with the official open source chipset drivers patched for my...

I believe the issue is that if clients are connected at slower speeds then they will be transmitting longer for the same file size, thus there is less available network bandwidth overall. There did used to be issues with slower clients actually preventing faster clients for linking at their top...

What part of "do not have the space" did you not understand? Also, how is it unreasonable to want to use 802.11ac for what its designed for? Its not like I am doing large file transfers on a daily basis on a tablet with only 32GB storage. The point was to have the OPTION, or for when I work...