I currently have the 75/35 plan. Wired speeds are about accurate. For wirelees, I get about 18-20 both up and downstream. I spoke to a support rep earlier and he mentioned that I should change the channels and buy a 9dbi or more antenna to replace the standard ones on the router. What would your suggestion be? Would it be advisable to spend about 10 bucks on those antennas?
If it makes a difference, I live in apartment, and the Fios router is in my bedroom while my laptop is currently in the living room. My laptop is about 3 1/2 years old so I assume it has -N.
@maortega15 wrote:I currently have the 75/35 plan. Wired speeds are about accurate. For wirelees, I get about 18-20 both up and downstream. I spoke to a support rep earlier and he mentioned that I should change the channels and buy a 9dbi or more antenna to replace the standard ones on the router. What would your suggestion be? Would it be advisable to spend about 10 bucks on those antennas?
If it makes a difference, I live in apartment, and the Fios router is in my bedroom while my laptop is currently in the living room. My laptop is about 3 1/2 years old so I assume it has -N.
Make sure your router is set for Performance mode (802.11n) and that you are using WPA security.
Use channel 1, 6, or 11. Download Inssider and you can see what other channels are being used and then select the one with the least inteference. Scroll down until you see inSSIDer under other products.
http://www.metageek.net/products/
Your computer's wireless adapter may be n capable, but some older adapters will not provide 75/35 speeds.
Also, distance and walls will significantly effect wireless performance. Check the above then test your wireless speed near the router.
@walt178 wrote:
@maortega15 wrote:I currently have the 75/35 plan. Wired speeds are about accurate. For wirelees, I get about 18-20 both up and downstream. I spoke to a support rep earlier and he mentioned that I should change the channels and buy a 9dbi or more antenna to replace the standard ones on the router. What would your suggestion be? Would it be advisable to spend about 10 bucks on those antennas?
If it makes a difference, I live in apartment, and the Fios router is in my bedroom while my laptop is currently in the living room. My laptop is about 3 1/2 years old so I assume it has -N.
Make sure your router is set for Performance mode (802.11n) and that you are using WPA security.
Use channel 1, 6, or 11. Download Inssider and you can see what other channels are being used and then select the one with the least inteference. Scroll down until you see inSSIDer under other products.
http://www.metageek.net/products/
Your computer's wireless adapter may be n capable, but some older adapters will not provide 75/35 speeds.
Also, distance and walls will significantly effect wireless performance. Check the above then test your wireless speed near the router.
I just looked at inSSIDer and it seems that I have to pay to use it.
@maortega15 wrote:
@walt178 wrote:
@maortega15 wrote:I currently have the 75/35 plan. Wired speeds are about accurate. For wirelees, I get about 18-20 both up and downstream. I spoke to a support rep earlier and he mentioned that I should change the channels and buy a 9dbi or more antenna to replace the standard ones on the router. What would your suggestion be? Would it be advisable to spend about 10 bucks on those antennas?
If it makes a difference, I live in apartment, and the Fios router is in my bedroom while my laptop is currently in the living room. My laptop is about 3 1/2 years old so I assume it has -N.
Make sure your router is set for Performance mode (802.11n) and that you are using WPA security.
Use channel 1, 6, or 11. Download Inssider and you can see what other channels are being used and then select the one with the least inteference. Scroll down until you see inSSIDer under other products.
http://www.metageek.net/products/
Your computer's wireless adapter may be n capable, but some older adapters will not provide 75/35 speeds.
Also, distance and walls will significantly effect wireless performance. Check the above then test your wireless speed near the router.
I just looked at inSSIDer and it seems that I have to pay to use it.
There's paid and free versions.
Here's a direct link to download it for free. Once you open the program click on the networks tab.
http://download.cnet.com/inSSIDer/3000-18508_4-10848357.html
@maortega15 wrote:I just looked at inSSIDer and it seems that I have to pay to use it.
I was not aware of that change. It seems that with the latest update they have started charging. You can still get the older, free version from other sites. Roaddogg posted one. For typical home use vers 3 will provide all the info you need.
Here are the results from inSSIDer:
Channel - 1 Link Score - 63
Co-Channel - 3 Networks
Overlapping - 0 Networks
Signal - 42 dBm
Security - WEP
802.11 - g
Max rate - 4
Use Vistumbler as an alternative. It requires a bit more knowledge on how to analyze Wi-Fi, but it does the job.
I didn't see a mention of which version of the router you have. From the fact that it is using WEP it would appear not to be one that supports wireless-n. And so you are not ever getting to much faster than 20 as your wireless speed.
You still may see some improvement over your posted speed if you switch frowm WEP to WPA2. Probably not that much, but of course your security would go from the the broken WEP security to the hard to crack WPA2.
@tns_2 wrote:I didn't see a mention of which version of the router you have. From the fact that it is using WEP it would appear not to be one that supports wireless-n. And so you are not ever getting to much faster than 20 as your wireless speed.
You still may see some improvement over your posted speed if you switch frowm WEP to WPA2. Probably not that much, but of course your security would go from the the broken WEP security to the hard to crack WPA2.
Actually, I have the MI424WR which is the latest one but it seems that its g is what im getting rather than n.
@Smith6612 wrote:Use Vistumbler as an alternative. It requires a bit more knowledge on how to analyze Wi-Fi, but it does the job.
I'll try that. But how would it help?
Start a new topic or ask questions in the open forum.
