Winin
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Post by Winin on May 13, 2011 11:27:58 GMT -5
I've been having some intermittent connection trouble, and I don't know if it my cable ISP, cable modem, or router or what. Happens on lots of computers in the house.
My router is very old (Linksys WRT54G v2 running dd-wrt firmware), but I don't know much about routers. What is a good one these days, and/or what are good features. We have the TV connected via ethernet cable, but all other pc's, laptops, phones, and R2 units are connected wirelessly.
Oh, and I live in San Francisco, so there are lots of cordless phone, cell phone, etc signals saturating the area (in case that matters).
I don't know what bands (N or G?) my wireless card in my pc, phone, and laptops use.
Thanks!
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Post by GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth) on May 13, 2011 14:32:00 GMT -5
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Big Hoss
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Post by Big Hoss on May 13, 2011 14:56:45 GMT -5
A simple fix to try is to change the wireless channel on the router to a different band its probably on auto or in the middle you could try a low number or a higher one it should be on the list on your router. Or if your real adventuresome your could upgrade to opensource tomato firmware i think it might work with your model. I am running a WRT54GL with tomato firmware and there is a feature that lets you boost your wireless signal beyond factory presets.
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Winin
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Post by Winin on May 13, 2011 15:31:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the links. Downloading info to brain now...
dd-wrt is a 3rd party firmware that lets you do that too, Hoss. I was on channel 7, but apparently that overlaps with itself, so one guide recommended 1, 6, or 11. Default is usually 6, so I went with 11.
Also, I swapped in my netgear router. It is newer than my Linksys, but was giving trouble at one point, so I had gone back to the Linksys (with dd-wrt). So far, the netgear is doing better (I was able to play STO, pages have been loading without random hitches, etc).
In the end, I think I need to get a 5 GHz router if I can, due to all the 2.4 GHz noise here.
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