I've been running wireless N via a WRT 610N v.1 for the last 2 and a half years. It's never really performed as well as I'd have expected of a wireless N product. My home is a townhome, and the router is about 10' below, and 30' away from my office. At that distance, signal strength sticks at about 50% on 2.4 GHz, and 10% on 5 GHz, with the PC using a Linksys WMP600N wireless NIC.
About 6 months ago, a Linksys support rep was able to help me optimize the router.......so I got the best performance ever from it...file transfer speeds of about 28 MBit/s.
In any case, the internal battery seems to have gone, and since December it keeps losing its settings, every time there is a power interruption to the house, so I've been thinking of replacing it.
Reading the reviews here, I tried the Netgear WNDR3700, and found the signal to be stronger....about 70% for 2.4 GHz, but still only 10% for 5 GHz. However, when I tried setting it up, any time I try to do file transfers, the most I've been able to get is about 50-170 KB/s.....which is far less than it should be capable of. Anyone else run into problems like this before?
I'm networking two machines that each have Windows 7 64 bit, and there's also a PS3, 360, and TV that are only occasionally on.
I've talked to Netgear's service reps, who told me that 54 Mbps is "the fastest speed your router can go". Which doesn't make any sense to me.
I'm still within the exchange period, and I'm thinking the device may just be faulty, so I'm going to switch it for a fresh copy.
Are there any other units I should be looking at? Right now, my Linksys is working, but it's limping along.....since getting it up and running again, the max I've got out of it is about 13 MBit/s in file transfer speed, when only two devices are on the network....and if I try to use Vonage or Skype to place calls, I pretty much can't do anything else.
I'd be interested in hearing if there are other products I should be looking at.....or if the problem is actually the wrong choice of wireless NIC or something.
I have considered that maybe, if I can get the WNDR3700 to at least work, purchase two of them, put one in the bedroom directly above the other, and set the one on the main floor as a base station, and the one in the bedroom as a repeater, and go that way. But I can only do that if I can get the thing working properly.
Plef5204
About 6 months ago, a Linksys support rep was able to help me optimize the router.......so I got the best performance ever from it...file transfer speeds of about 28 MBit/s.
In any case, the internal battery seems to have gone, and since December it keeps losing its settings, every time there is a power interruption to the house, so I've been thinking of replacing it.
Reading the reviews here, I tried the Netgear WNDR3700, and found the signal to be stronger....about 70% for 2.4 GHz, but still only 10% for 5 GHz. However, when I tried setting it up, any time I try to do file transfers, the most I've been able to get is about 50-170 KB/s.....which is far less than it should be capable of. Anyone else run into problems like this before?
I'm networking two machines that each have Windows 7 64 bit, and there's also a PS3, 360, and TV that are only occasionally on.
I've talked to Netgear's service reps, who told me that 54 Mbps is "the fastest speed your router can go". Which doesn't make any sense to me.
I'm still within the exchange period, and I'm thinking the device may just be faulty, so I'm going to switch it for a fresh copy.
Are there any other units I should be looking at? Right now, my Linksys is working, but it's limping along.....since getting it up and running again, the max I've got out of it is about 13 MBit/s in file transfer speed, when only two devices are on the network....and if I try to use Vonage or Skype to place calls, I pretty much can't do anything else.
I'd be interested in hearing if there are other products I should be looking at.....or if the problem is actually the wrong choice of wireless NIC or something.
I have considered that maybe, if I can get the WNDR3700 to at least work, purchase two of them, put one in the bedroom directly above the other, and set the one on the main floor as a base station, and the one in the bedroom as a repeater, and go that way. But I can only do that if I can get the thing working properly.
Plef5204