Asus RT-N66 wifi range

[itrocks4u]

Hi,

I hope I have posted this in the right forums. I have had the Asus RT-N66 for about 6 months now and it has been working great. Although in one corner of the house I was still able to get a good signal in another corner of the house. However, recently, I've noticed the range has significantly declined. Like the areas where my iphone would previously catch 2 bars easily on the wifi, now goes straight to 3G. I just don't understand how that is possible. I tried the usual restart, keep it off for a bit etc etc. but no luck.

To further explain my setup, the north end of my house is where N66 is. The south-end, all connected through ethernet, I have WNR3500 setup to repeat signal (it's just extending the N66 signal towards the south end where you turn off the DHCP server etc etc). It was all great, excellent signal throughout. But now the west end is where I've completely lost signal. I'm not sure how to fix it.

Firmware: 3.0.0.4.266.23 (Merlin build)

 

[wouterv]

Did earth rotate maybe, and swapped east and west? ;-)
Did you get new neighbors, or did the neighbors discover the wireless world and set up their own router which now disturbs your signal?
Did things move in the house? New walls, new steel structures, anything that can reflect or block radio signals?
Use a program called inSSIDer to analyse the radio spectrum in all corners of your house and see if there are other, stronger, signals than just yours. Set your router to the least occupied channel, set 2.4 GHz to a bandwidth of 20 MHz.

 

[Pericynthion]

As per wouterv mentions this is highly circumstantial (interference, rotation of the earth etc) but I'm finding with the latest firmware - if I drop my TX power from 80mw down to 50mw it pretty much doubles my range.

 

[LHF]

As per wouterv mentions this is highly circumstantial (interference, rotation of the earth etc) but I'm finding with the latest firmware - if I drop my TX power from 80mw down to 50mw it pretty much doubles my range.

Me too ... I drop to 30mv. The range and speed increased pretty much. By the way, does anybody know the reason ? My fw is 3.0.0.4.276.

Tks !

 

[Pericynthion]

No idea - all I know is that it works (at least for now)