What wireless routers you guys using though?

[alexgod]

Originally Posted by Mr718

Almost 2yrs strong and no problems.

so jealous of that speed

i have definitely looked at the time capsule/airport extreme but the price is just too steep.

 

[alexgod]

Originally Posted by Mr718

Almost 2yrs strong and no problems.

so jealous of that speed

i have definitely looked at the time capsule/airport extreme but the price is just too steep.

 

[capricdragon]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

I'm a huge stickler for home networking after moving into a new house last year.

I still stand by the classic Linksys WRT54G, it has great range. And just so you know, the 5 GHz band on these dual band routers are much faster but have a shorter range than 2.4 GHz, through walls, etc.

I just bought the Linksys E4200, which is pretty expensive for a router, to try it out because I love Linksys products. File transfer is super fast when connected on on the 5 GHz band. I use it to transfer movie files to my NAS. I keep the 2.4 Ghz band Wireless-G only for older wifi stuff. I don't notice a difference in actual internet speeds when connected on wireless-G or N, we have pretty fast internet as it is.

We have a pretty large house, recently built so the walls barely allowed any signal to come through. The best option for you, which is what I did, is to run routers as wired access points. It helped that I put LAN ports in several rooms. This is the best way to maintain maximum speed, any other option and you're sacrificing some speed. If your house isn't wired, it's not too expensive or difficult to run it yourself. Right now, I have 2 WRT54G's downstairs and an E4200 upstairs, all with the same SSID and password so computers see it as one big network and switches automatically to whatever has the strongest signal (similar to colleges). You can go anywhere inside or outside our 9000 sq. ft. house and get no less than 3 out of 4 bars of signal. I felt pretty accomplished after doing all the research and troubleshooting.

Do tell how you did this please?  I'm really NOT a big fan of having multiple SSID's (as is the case since I tried using a Hawking HWREN1 range extender).
I have a one-story house with adequate room to move around in the 'attic' to pull CAT-5 cables.

We also have multiple walls deflecting signals and 1-bar dead spots in the far bedrooms.

Even with the HWREN1, the far bedrooms would get 2-3 bars, but noticeably slower speeds.

I've considered upgrading the HWREN1 antennas from 3dBi to ANYTHING more powerful, but when I contacted Hawking customer service, they instructed I had to upgrade BOTH antennas. Upgrading 1 of the 2 antennas would have no effect.

I have a spare WRT54GSv8 and have considering flashing the firmware to make it a repeater.  Is that even worth the trouble?

My whole desire is to have a single SSID with adequate signal strength.

 

[capricdragon]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

I'm a huge stickler for home networking after moving into a new house last year.

I still stand by the classic Linksys WRT54G, it has great range. And just so you know, the 5 GHz band on these dual band routers are much faster but have a shorter range than 2.4 GHz, through walls, etc.

I just bought the Linksys E4200, which is pretty expensive for a router, to try it out because I love Linksys products. File transfer is super fast when connected on on the 5 GHz band. I use it to transfer movie files to my NAS. I keep the 2.4 Ghz band Wireless-G only for older wifi stuff. I don't notice a difference in actual internet speeds when connected on wireless-G or N, we have pretty fast internet as it is.

We have a pretty large house, recently built so the walls barely allowed any signal to come through. The best option for you, which is what I did, is to run routers as wired access points. It helped that I put LAN ports in several rooms. This is the best way to maintain maximum speed, any other option and you're sacrificing some speed. If your house isn't wired, it's not too expensive or difficult to run it yourself. Right now, I have 2 WRT54G's downstairs and an E4200 upstairs, all with the same SSID and password so computers see it as one big network and switches automatically to whatever has the strongest signal (similar to colleges). You can go anywhere inside or outside our 9000 sq. ft. house and get no less than 3 out of 4 bars of signal. I felt pretty accomplished after doing all the research and troubleshooting.

Do tell how you did this please?  I'm really NOT a big fan of having multiple SSID's (as is the case since I tried using a Hawking HWREN1 range extender).
I have a one-story house with adequate room to move around in the 'attic' to pull CAT-5 cables.

We also have multiple walls deflecting signals and 1-bar dead spots in the far bedrooms.

Even with the HWREN1, the far bedrooms would get 2-3 bars, but noticeably slower speeds.

I've considered upgrading the HWREN1 antennas from 3dBi to ANYTHING more powerful, but when I contacted Hawking customer service, they instructed I had to upgrade BOTH antennas. Upgrading 1 of the 2 antennas would have no effect.

I have a spare WRT54GSv8 and have considering flashing the firmware to make it a repeater.  Is that even worth the trouble?

My whole desire is to have a single SSID with adequate signal strength.

 

[capricdragon]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

.... (same SSID and password, different channels). Can't connect? Reboot the router and start all over again. It should work the first time. Let me know, if you need any other help.

And to the OP, Linksys router are pretty cheap. Start off at like $50 and can be had for $35 used. You just need a basic one.
ahhhhh different channels.... not Auto I assume?

 

[capricdragon]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

.... (same SSID and password, different channels). Can't connect? Reboot the router and start all over again. It should work the first time. Let me know, if you need any other help.

And to the OP, Linksys router are pretty cheap. Start off at like $50 and can be had for $35 used. You just need a basic one.
ahhhhh different channels.... not Auto I assume?

 

[capricdragon]

Originally Posted by Mr718

Almost 2yrs strong and no problems.

Who the heck is your provider?! (in New York)
I'm in CA so unsure if I'd ever get that lucky with the providers out here.

 

[capricdragon]

Originally Posted by Mr718

Almost 2yrs strong and no problems.

Who the heck is your provider?! (in New York)
I'm in CA so unsure if I'd ever get that lucky with the providers out here.

 

[mr718]

Originally Posted by capricdragon

Originally Posted by Mr718



Almost 2yrs strong and no problems.

Who the heck is your provider?! (in New York)
I'm in CA so unsure if I'd ever get that lucky with the providers out here.

Cablevision/Optimum.  Supposed to be getting up to 50Mbps

 

[mr718]

Originally Posted by capricdragon

Originally Posted by Mr718



Almost 2yrs strong and no problems.

Who the heck is your provider?! (in New York)
I'm in CA so unsure if I'd ever get that lucky with the providers out here.

Cablevision/Optimum.  Supposed to be getting up to 50Mbps

 

[kingsuperbiv]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

I'm a huge stickler for home networking after moving into a new house last year.

I still stand by the classic Linksys WRT54G, it has great range. And just so you know, the 5 GHz band on these dual band routers are much faster but have a shorter range than 2.4 GHz, through walls, etc.

I just bought the Linksys E4200, which is pretty expensive for a router, to try it out because I love Linksys products. File transfer is super fast when connected on on the 5 GHz band. I use it to transfer movie files to my NAS. I keep the 2.4 Ghz band Wireless-G only for older wifi stuff. I don't notice a difference in actual internet speeds when connected on wireless-G or N, we have pretty fast internet as it is.

We have a pretty large house, recently built so the walls barely allowed any signal to come through. The best option for you, which is what I did, is to run routers as wired access points. It helped that I put LAN ports in several rooms. This is the best way to maintain maximum speed, any other option and you're sacrificing some speed. If your house isn't wired, it's not too expensive or difficult to run it yourself. Right now, I have 2 WRT54G's downstairs and an E4200 upstairs, all with the same SSID and password so computers see it as one big network and switches automatically to whatever has the strongest signal (similar to colleges). You can go anywhere inside or outside our 9000 sq. ft. house and get no less than 3 out of 4 bars of signal. I felt pretty accomplished after doing all the research and troubleshooting.

you can mod the linksy router and make it into a $700 router with DDWRT software. i did mines like that and you can load new open source software on it and make it do 10x more things,,http://www.google.com/url...35QmeYNXqr1w&cad=rja

 

[kingsuperbiv]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

I'm a huge stickler for home networking after moving into a new house last year.

I still stand by the classic Linksys WRT54G, it has great range. And just so you know, the 5 GHz band on these dual band routers are much faster but have a shorter range than 2.4 GHz, through walls, etc.

I just bought the Linksys E4200, which is pretty expensive for a router, to try it out because I love Linksys products. File transfer is super fast when connected on on the 5 GHz band. I use it to transfer movie files to my NAS. I keep the 2.4 Ghz band Wireless-G only for older wifi stuff. I don't notice a difference in actual internet speeds when connected on wireless-G or N, we have pretty fast internet as it is.

We have a pretty large house, recently built so the walls barely allowed any signal to come through. The best option for you, which is what I did, is to run routers as wired access points. It helped that I put LAN ports in several rooms. This is the best way to maintain maximum speed, any other option and you're sacrificing some speed. If your house isn't wired, it's not too expensive or difficult to run it yourself. Right now, I have 2 WRT54G's downstairs and an E4200 upstairs, all with the same SSID and password so computers see it as one big network and switches automatically to whatever has the strongest signal (similar to colleges). You can go anywhere inside or outside our 9000 sq. ft. house and get no less than 3 out of 4 bars of signal. I felt pretty accomplished after doing all the research and troubleshooting.

you can mod the linksy router and make it into a $700 router with DDWRT software. i did mines like that and you can load new open source software on it and make it do 10x more things,,http://www.google.com/url...35QmeYNXqr1w&cad=rja

 

[kingsuperbiv]

Originally Posted by zk1MPLS

Bought myself a Linksys WRT600N dual-band router a few months ago to replace my old WRT160N. I thought there would be a significant range increase, but it's still doo-doo like my old N router.

Can't make the signal spread over the entire house (Through thick cement and re-bar).

Now trying to figure out how to make my old router a repeater... want to use CAT-5 cable to connect both so i have minimal bandwidth loss. Flashed both with DD-WRT... can't get the repeater to work.

Any ideas?

its easy to get it to work as repeater. I have mines set like it...

 

[kingsuperbiv]

Originally Posted by zk1MPLS

Bought myself a Linksys WRT600N dual-band router a few months ago to replace my old WRT160N. I thought there would be a significant range increase, but it's still doo-doo like my old N router.

Can't make the signal spread over the entire house (Through thick cement and re-bar).

Now trying to figure out how to make my old router a repeater... want to use CAT-5 cable to connect both so i have minimal bandwidth loss. Flashed both with DD-WRT... can't get the repeater to work.

Any ideas?

its easy to get it to work as repeater. I have mines set like it...

 

[angeezy]

NETGEAR WGR614v9

 

[angeezy]

NETGEAR WGR614v9

 

[afamous]

Linksys E3000.

 

[afamous]

Linksys E3000.

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

Originally Posted by zk1MPLS

Bought myself a Linksys WRT600N dual-band router a few months ago to replace my old WRT160N. I thought there would be a significant range increase, but it's still doo-doo like my old N router.

Can't make the signal spread over the entire house (Through thick cement and re-bar).



Now trying to figure out how to make my old router a repeater... want to use CAT-5 cable to connect both so i have minimal bandwidth loss. Flashed both with DD-WRT... can't get the repeater to work.

Any ideas?

You're trying to setup a wired access point, similar to what I did. Stay with me now...

If you haven't changed your original IP address, then it still should be 192.168.1.1 by default which is what I'll use to explain. And this is using the stock linksys firmware but it should work the same for DD-WRT. Actually, you might as well flash it back to linksys firmware, it's not as complicated.

1) Take the second router, plug an ethernet wire from one of the ports (not the internet one) to your computers ethernet port (turn off wifi if you're using a laptop).
2) Type 192.168.1.1 in your browser, username, pw, etc. Im sure you know this part
3) Disable DHCP server. Save settings.
4) Click on Advanced Routing. Change Gateway to Router. Save settings
Keep the wireless on default and unsecured at the moment.
5) Go back to the main page. Change the IP address of the router to 192.168.254. Save settings.

After this you'll have to type 192.168.1.254 to access the router's settings. This doesn't always work at first.

Now connect an ethernet wire from your original router to one of the second routers ports (not the internet one, it won't be used anymore). Now check to see if you get an internet connection from the default linksys wifi network coming from the second router. You're connected? Great! Type 192.168.1.254 in your browser and change the wifi settings to match the original routers (same SSID and password, different channels). Can't connect? Reboot the router and start all over again. It should work the first time. Let me know, if you need any other help.

And to the OP, Linksys router are pretty cheap. Start off at like $50 and can be had for $35 used. You just need a basic one.

I appreciate the help, sir. 

Will try it out later and flash it back to Linksys firmware when I get home.

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by djuzi05

Originally Posted by zk1MPLS

Bought myself a Linksys WRT600N dual-band router a few months ago to replace my old WRT160N. I thought there would be a significant range increase, but it's still doo-doo like my old N router.

Can't make the signal spread over the entire house (Through thick cement and re-bar).



Now trying to figure out how to make my old router a repeater... want to use CAT-5 cable to connect both so i have minimal bandwidth loss. Flashed both with DD-WRT... can't get the repeater to work.

Any ideas?

You're trying to setup a wired access point, similar to what I did. Stay with me now...

If you haven't changed your original IP address, then it still should be 192.168.1.1 by default which is what I'll use to explain. And this is using the stock linksys firmware but it should work the same for DD-WRT. Actually, you might as well flash it back to linksys firmware, it's not as complicated.

1) Take the second router, plug an ethernet wire from one of the ports (not the internet one) to your computers ethernet port (turn off wifi if you're using a laptop).
2) Type 192.168.1.1 in your browser, username, pw, etc. Im sure you know this part
3) Disable DHCP server. Save settings.
4) Click on Advanced Routing. Change Gateway to Router. Save settings
Keep the wireless on default and unsecured at the moment.
5) Go back to the main page. Change the IP address of the router to 192.168.254. Save settings.

After this you'll have to type 192.168.1.254 to access the router's settings. This doesn't always work at first.

Now connect an ethernet wire from your original router to one of the second routers ports (not the internet one, it won't be used anymore). Now check to see if you get an internet connection from the default linksys wifi network coming from the second router. You're connected? Great! Type 192.168.1.254 in your browser and change the wifi settings to match the original routers (same SSID and password, different channels). Can't connect? Reboot the router and start all over again. It should work the first time. Let me know, if you need any other help.

And to the OP, Linksys router are pretty cheap. Start off at like $50 and can be had for $35 used. You just need a basic one.

I appreciate the help, sir. 

Will try it out later and flash it back to Linksys firmware when I get home.

 

[joe billionaire]

Originally Posted by eLNiNo4530

Xfinity router/modem 

i have this now...any tips on opening up the signal? i had a old netgear on my dsl at&t speeds and i got wifi in all my rooms...now the signal on the xfinity gets 1 bar out of the room its in...it still works but 1 bar compared to getting 4-3 bars all over my house with the old netgear and slow speeds

 

[joe billionaire]

Originally Posted by eLNiNo4530

Xfinity router/modem 

i have this now...any tips on opening up the signal? i had a old netgear on my dsl at&t speeds and i got wifi in all my rooms...now the signal on the xfinity gets 1 bar out of the room its in...it still works but 1 bar compared to getting 4-3 bars all over my house with the old netgear and slow speeds

 

[wallyhopp]

I have never personally done this but I feel this could be an option if one router is just a few feet short of covering your entire house:
http://lifehacker.com/296...a-homemade-wifi-extender

 

[wallyhopp]

I have never personally done this but I feel this could be an option if one router is just a few feet short of covering your entire house:
http://lifehacker.com/296...a-homemade-wifi-extender

 

[chrispcb15]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

*shrug*