Recent content by balforth

Thanks for the reply -- I did look at bandwidth utilization when the problem was occurring and all of the levels were pretty low... nothing very noteworthy.

I've had this router for over 2 months now and it's been amazing. First thing I did was flash Shibby's tomato firmware and everything was great. The past couple of days I noticed a lot of lag, so I ran a test at speedtest.net and noticed my pings were like 750ms and bandwidth was complete...

I flashed the latest tomato on my new 66u and it kicks the crap out of my old Cisco e4200v1. My throughput has over doubled transferring files between computers inside my network, and signal strength is amazing.

I thought mixed mode yielded worse performance -- that if possible, you should try to run a single mode on one radio?

I left it at G because all of my N capable devices are 5ghz, but 3 of my devices (ps3, old ipod touch, and ip cam) are only G. So having the 5ghz N and 2.4ghz G works perfect for me.

Sorry, should have read the sticky before I posted.

So I just got the ASUS RT-N66U and I'm loving it. I currently have the 5GHz radio a dedicated N network and the 2.4ghz radio a dedicated G network. I have a stack of old routers (Cisco E4200v1, Buffalo high power 802.11g, asus something or other...). Would I get any better performance by...

Turns out I had to adjust what channels the Trendnet wireless adapter was looking for the 5ghz network on in the advanced properties. I went ahead and got the RT-N66U and immediately flashed Tomato firmware. There's already a huge difference. In the far corners of my house I used to only...

I actually have several, but unfortunately I've never really ran any metrics on them. When the router starts misbehaving, the whole family notices it, however. BF3 on my gaming laptop becomes unplayable. But again, the main effect is on internet speeds. Power-cycling doesn't fix the issue...

The factory reset comes mainly because of internet speeds. Not sure if I would have related the problem streaming from my NAS to my HTPC on my internal network without it.... Sparing the details, I was getting fractional speeds to my router even after power cycling, but full speeds to a...

I have a netgear NAS with a couple TBs of music, tv shows, and movies, some HD, som SD. Sometimes I have one laptop and my HTPC streaming video, and another laptop streaming music simultaneously. I currently have the Cisco e4200v1 and the old trendnet 5ghz usb gaming adapter hooked up to my...

It's unbelievably simple to do it with other firmwares... Tomato has been great for me. There is a drop down box that lets you select what wireless mode you want: Too bad the manufacturers don't support it though. It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult to implement...

Thanks again guys.... I've decided to hang on to the E4200. I'll run both channels on N only. I just ordered a Trendnet USB adapter to connect to my HTPC which I believe is the only 450Mbps adapter I'll have. The 2.4Ghz will be for the multitude of other laptops I have in my house...

Ugh. I guess I've taken for granted all these years that I run a client bridge with my Buffalo and Asus routers running Tomato firmware. I was actually hoping to stick with the manufacturer's firmware on whatever piece of hardware I end up with this time as everybody reports they're typically...

Thank you sir for the info... sorry about the link (or lack thereof). So I guess I might as well go ahead an grab the Netgear router to form my bridge... Is there any reason why the routers should be matched, or should I be fine using the E4200 as my main router/wap and the netgear as the...