Need help with wireless in home

Are you sure the router is concurrent dual band? Cuz there are two different kinds, most dual bands only are able to broadcast on one band at a time. The more expensive ones are the ones that can broadcast on both at the same time.
I think a better bet would be to run a line closer to where she is, and then terminate with a wireless access point. I dont mean running the wire through walls and such, just under the carpet or something, enough to get it closer. Then look at getting replacement antenna for the router/WAP, as well as the wireless laptop in question.
 
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Are you sure the router is concurrent dual band? Cuz there are two different kinds, most dual bands only are able to broadcast on one band at a time. The more expensive ones are the ones that can broadcast on both at the same time.
I think a better bet would be to run a line closer to where she is, and then terminate with a wireless access point. I dont mean running the wire through walls and such, just under the carpet or something, enough to get it closer. Then look at getting replacement antenna for the router/WAP, as well as the wireless laptop in question.
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When I read this... I heard it in your voice lol. Must be this whole lack of sleep lack of getting shit done.
 
RainMotorsports said:
When I read this... I heard it in your voice lol. Must be this whole lack of sleep lack of getting shit done.
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dont think its ur lack of sleep rain, when ever i read things from people i know i always hear it in there voice.
 
Are you sure the router is concurrent dual band? Cuz there are two different kinds, most dual bands only are able to broadcast on one band at a time. The more expensive ones are the ones that can broadcast on both at the same time.
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Yeah it's able to and for $160 it had better! I got the Cisco-Linksys E4200
Newegg.com - Linksys E4200 Wireless N Router Maximum Performance Dual-Band IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n

Unless I'm reading it wrong, it's features list as :Simultaneous Dual-Band N (2.4 & 5 GHz)
 
The issue with that one, is that it has no external antennae which will have an affect on the distance it can push. Also means you cant hook any antenna upgrades to it without modifying the structure of it.
 
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The issue with that one, is that it has no external antennae which will have an affect on the distance it can push. Also means you cant hook any antenna upgrades to it without modifying the structure of it.
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After researching it myself I am back and forth on that. More often then not people make the wrong antenna choices for their use anyways. Netgear started messing with metamaterial antenna's mounted to the plastic of the case possibly like you will find in this linksys (Not familiar with the new E series except for hacking them). Theyre actually quite good and some of the netgears since they still have antenna connectors on the circuit board, People bought antenna leads and put antennas on them and found the performance not to be what they where hoping for.

He will have to give it a shot to see.

He said he canceled a repeater order and im not sure what that was. What I had suggested was a 1000mW client device (basically an over usb adapter) but as i said before without matching a decent router with it, possible it wouldn't have solved anything.
 
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USB Adapters are limited to 11 mbps though.
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Hate to argue but where does that figure come from? USB 2.0 is bidirectional rated 480 Mbps meaning 30 MB/s one way and 30 MB/s the other way simultaneously. Now observed sustained transfer is a little more like 25 in a direction.

11 Mbps? thats way slower than anything Ive seen usb 2 ever do. 11 MB/s? Maybe on a bad day yeah but thats faster than 80 Mbps fiber internet.

12 Mbps was USB 1.0 maybe thats stuck in your head. Not that i was recommending the particular device either Ubiquiti makes alot of solutions but i had trouble finding them.
 
I won't be using the USB for anything so that doesn't matter to me. I am not using a router currently so we'll see what this does and I may end up using a repeater also, but so far that's just speculation. I'll keep you guys updated.
 
Well, the router was a bust since it wouldn't do what I needed. I ended up just getting a wireless range extender@ 2.4ghz. It does the job, was pretty much plug and play and upstairs has full signal now with WPA2 encryption...for what that's worth.
 
sixer9682 said:
Well, the router was a bust since it wouldn't do what I needed. I ended up just getting a wireless range extender@ 2.4ghz. It does the job, was pretty much plug and play and upstairs has full signal now with WPA2 encryption...for what that's worth.
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What exactly wouldnt it do that you needed?
 
It wouldn't separate the signals for dual band and it kept blocking access to the wife's computer. I went through all their FAQs, tech support via chat and finally got tired of if doing and not doing the same things over and over and over again. It was like being married minus the pussy so in short it was like hell.
 
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