Recent content by MamaBear2017

ARghh. Talk about ambivalence. :-)

So do any of you have a preference for which of those two routers I mentioned? Linksys AC1900 Dual Band Open Source WiFi Wireless Router (WRT1900ACS) or NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band Wi-Fi Gigabit Router (R7000) with Open Source

I've done so many resets it's not funny. At this point I consider it a manufacturer-crippled router.

Yeah, ok, but the RT-N66U was working ok in my bedroom, before the firmware update, which I now regret ever making, and then it drastically reduced the power. But that aside, which of those two routers would those of you here recommend? I need to get this going today, as I cant watch streaming...

Ah, ok. Thanks. But the manufacturers are making it hard to find that data now. I searched for routers that could help with the bufferbloat issue and found this article: http://bluegadgettooth.com/best-dd-wrt-router/ So it seems that dd-wrt routers can solve this, and I'm considering ( Amazon...

That's my problem now. I got the RT-N66U in 2014 and the original firmware showed the power in mw. We have a long house and my bedroom is the furthest, and I switched everything to 5GHz about 2-1/2 years ago, to get out of the neighborhood noise ( west Denver area ). SO I was running the full...

I thought the limit here in the U.S. is 1000mw ( 1 watt )? I own the RT-N66U and it originally measured -60db on my PC on 5GHz, about 20 feet from the router. I checked and could actually see when I set the power to 200mw - the max. THEN I upgraded the cursed firmware and they appear to have...

What people seem to be missing in this thread is this: You get a 3db gain every time you double power. BUT my RT-N66U, when crippled by the recent firmware update that I just did, went from 200mw to 15 mw, I think, and is barely usable in our house in Denver now. SO 15mw doubled to 30mw would...