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Fatwah on Western Digital
I've got a nice dual band Linksys router at my office. I've got it set up to deliver 802.11g service on the 2.4GHz band and 802.11n on the 5.8GHz band. I'm using dd-wrt with it.
Since I'm the only person in my office who has an 802.11n NIC, this is all just fine.
I don't notice the difference in speed, particularly, but I seldom want to do anything more than connect to the internet and print from my laptop. When I want speed I plug in to a gigabit port.
What I do notice is the fact that I have a 5.8GHz signal that has a slightly larger radius and slightly higher strength than the G-only service that used to be present. I can blanket my whole office with both 2.4 and 5.8GHz signals from one AP, and that's excellent.
Since I'm the only person in my office who has an 802.11n NIC, this is all just fine.
I don't notice the difference in speed, particularly, but I seldom want to do anything more than connect to the internet and print from my laptop. When I want speed I plug in to a gigabit port.
What I do notice is the fact that I have a 5.8GHz signal that has a slightly larger radius and slightly higher strength than the G-only service that used to be present. I can blanket my whole office with both 2.4 and 5.8GHz signals from one AP, and that's excellent.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
About 2m from a Linksys WRT350N, I get 802.11n speeds that work out to be about 120Mbit during file copies to a PC connected to one of its gigabit ports.
At about 5m, the speed drops off to about 80Mbit. That's as far as I can get from the router without putting some cinder blocks between my notebook and the router.
In other words, it seems like you have to be pretty close to an N-router to get any real bandwidth improvement.
I've got a Netgear, a DLink and a Linksys WRVS4400N that I can also test.
At about 5m, the speed drops off to about 80Mbit. That's as far as I can get from the router without putting some cinder blocks between my notebook and the router.
In other words, it seems like you have to be pretty close to an N-router to get any real bandwidth improvement.
I've got a Netgear, a DLink and a Linksys WRVS4400N that I can also test.
That's a steeper drop-off than the continental shelf. Bah, I may go back to a wired connection. On another note, the HTPC automagically installed SP3 for XP and now my wireless is toast.
I really detest wireless technology....
I really detest wireless technology....
Jumped to conclusions. I had set the router/AccessPoint to Channel 1 when chasing other issues a long time ago. Set the channel to 13 and things are back to normal. Guess it was an interference issue, but I don't know what it could be. Black helicopters?