Carnagerover
Senior Member
Improving Linksys WRT610N Range With Expresscard
Just thought that i would update, as I received the Linksys WRT610N today, yay;
So far so good, I'm more than happy with it, I can get good connection speeds in the lounge and in my Bedroom, I can get 11MB\s in the lounge, where the router is situated, but that does vary, i also get between 6-8MB\s in the bedroom. Definitely the best I have had so far.
The only place that has trouble now is the spare room, not so great in there, but i think the culprit maybe next door as i think we both steal each others bandwidth from time to time.
When I look in my WIFI stats now I see the following;
My connection, WIFI has a signal of 100% on Channel 1 in the lounge
The next in line is my neighbours connection at 61% on Channel 6
This must be having a negative effect on my bandwidth, hence the reason i bought the dual band really in the first place.
What can i do to maximize my connection, i have made sure we are not on the same channel is there anything else i can do ?
I believe the router is running in 20Mhz mode.
Its weird as when i am in the spare room, if I am connected to the Linksys with the built in WIFI i get a steady 2-2.5MB\s, if I am connected to the Linksys with the DWA-643, I get anywhere from less than 1MB to 4MB\s, sometimes when I am first starting a transfer, it will start at 3MB\s for example and then it will kind of stall, then work its way back from nothing up to around 1-2MB\s.
I am not sure if this is a issue with the range on the DWA-643, I wouldn't have though so as it has quite a high signal in the spare room but it must be closer to the neighbours router as there connection is not that much lower.
Although the built in WIFI will have a much bigger annetna so I would imagine this helps no end with a steady stream.
This must be what is affecting me in the spare room as it works like a charm everywhere else.
Anyway thumbs up for the linksys
Just thought that i would update, as I received the Linksys WRT610N today, yay;
So far so good, I'm more than happy with it, I can get good connection speeds in the lounge and in my Bedroom, I can get 11MB\s in the lounge, where the router is situated, but that does vary, i also get between 6-8MB\s in the bedroom. Definitely the best I have had so far.
The only place that has trouble now is the spare room, not so great in there, but i think the culprit maybe next door as i think we both steal each others bandwidth from time to time.
When I look in my WIFI stats now I see the following;
My connection, WIFI has a signal of 100% on Channel 1 in the lounge
The next in line is my neighbours connection at 61% on Channel 6
This must be having a negative effect on my bandwidth, hence the reason i bought the dual band really in the first place.
What can i do to maximize my connection, i have made sure we are not on the same channel is there anything else i can do ?
I believe the router is running in 20Mhz mode.
Its weird as when i am in the spare room, if I am connected to the Linksys with the built in WIFI i get a steady 2-2.5MB\s, if I am connected to the Linksys with the DWA-643, I get anywhere from less than 1MB to 4MB\s, sometimes when I am first starting a transfer, it will start at 3MB\s for example and then it will kind of stall, then work its way back from nothing up to around 1-2MB\s.
I am not sure if this is a issue with the range on the DWA-643, I wouldn't have though so as it has quite a high signal in the spare room but it must be closer to the neighbours router as there connection is not that much lower.
Although the built in WIFI will have a much bigger annetna so I would imagine this helps no end with a steady stream.
This must be what is affecting me in the spare room as it works like a charm everywhere else.
Anyway thumbs up for the linksys
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