Recent content by Plef5204

Thanks for this. Now, if I may ask, my understanding for years has been that extenders and/or repeaters are limited because they automatically cut your speed in half, because they can't be both sending and receiving at the same time. My understanding of mesh systems is that they have an extra...

There's no problem regarding fessing up. I'm just trying to think of every factor that might be contributing to the problem. Are the wall warts individually replaceable?

I recognize that the middle of the house, unsurrounded by stuff is the best place to put a router. Unfortunately, this house was built in the mid 2000's, and wasn't designed in a way that makes it easy. The whole middle of the house is either the kitchen and our island, or the hallway to the...

Hmmmm..... So, from the beginning, the solution worked for some things, and not others. For web browsing, or streaming video, for instance, computers connected to the router, the extender, or the bridge, could all work effectively. However, in my office, I have a Windows 10 machine with...

I moved to a new home two summers back, and it's significantly bigger than my last residence. I have been trying to get WiFi to work well in the new place, but I'm finding difficulty trying to have it be reliable. The house is two floors, about 2500 square feet, plus a finished basement. My...

I tried setting my 2.4 band to 20 instead of 40, and the speed of my iPhone and Transformer doubled. So, looks like that was the ticket. Now, both of our Windows laptops only connect to 2.4 N, rather than the 5 GHz band.....previously, I could move files from a laptop in place spot of the...

I've run across a really weird issue with my Linksys E4200. Ordinarily, this thing is a rock star.....with my current setup, it's moving files at up to 10 Mbps between computers in my house.....it'll move a gig of files in about a minute. I'm *very* happy with that performance. However...

Depends on what your situation is. Whether it's the construction of my home or whatever, I consistently find issues with weak signal strength result in poor connectivity and slower speeds....even with routers that *should* be able to work better than they do. I've tried the WRT610N v.1...

I have a relatively small townhome, about 1800 square feet in size. I had the WRT610N v.1 for 2 years, until I started having issues with it, following a power surge, when I had it connected, unprotected to a power outlet, when I was reconfiguring my network. That router had a relatively...

I can't tell you about new DLink DAP-1522's, because I bought mine about 18 months ago, but mine *is* dual-band. Maybe they've just removed two frequencies from the newer ones? I haven't updated my firmware in a year or so, so maybe I'd lose those frequencies if I did? Updating firmware...

I've started having a really weird networking problem in the last month and a half. I've got a Netgear WNDR3700 router that I purchased in January, and am using it with several devices in the home: Win7 64-bit laptop with wireless N Win7 64-bit desktop connected by wireless N DLink...

I just moved from a Linksys WRT610N v.1 to a Netgear WNDR3700. Originally I was using a DWA-552 from DLink, which had weak reception.....and I found it less reliable when I moved from WinXP to Win7....so I picked up a Linksys WMP600N. Some people have told me it's important to match your...

Ah, that makes sense. That number, that Windows reports as "speed" changes all the time. With my current setup, I've seen it range anywhere from 5 Mbps to 300 Mbps. At the moment, it's sitting at 40.5 Mbps. Overall signal strength has been fluctuating to a much higher degree today than...

One other question.....I downloaded the latest firmware for the WNDR3700, and ran the install wizard. Do I either need to turn the router off for 30 seconds and then turn it back on OR do a hard reset by pushing that tiny little button on the bottom with a pencil and holding that for 30...

If I can ask, what is link-rate switching? I haven't heard that term before. With the speeds I'm getting, do you think there would be a benefit to buying a second WNDR3700, and setting it up on the 2nd floor, immediately above the first one, and turning it into a repeater, so that it's now...