NETGEAR wireless router help!!

[Zman]

Also can disable mixed mode (b+g) unless you still have an old "b" device. This has some choke.

the interference of channels is a big probability. Do a survey of your house and see if your channel is being used by the neighbors. Pick the one w/ least signal strength from others.

Use only channels 1,6&11 on 2.4GHz. If one of your neighbors is being a channel hog, go turn off their house main breaker .

These are the initial ideas that come up. There are more down in the weeds tricks to try.

Z

[00tec]

My next step would be flashing ddwrt or tomato and cranking up the tx power. I have to on mine, being so close to so many networks. I can pick up 19 ssids from my living room.

[fly boy]

Also can disable mixed mode (b+g) unless you still have an old "b" device. This has some choke.

the interference of channels is a big probability. Do a survey of your house and see if your channel is being used by the neighbors. Pick the one w/ least signal strength from others.

Use only channels 1,6&11 on 2.4GHz. If one of your neighbors is being a channel hog, go turn off their house main breaker .

These are the initial ideas that come up. There are more down in the weeds tricks to try.

Z

Already shutdown to just 802.11g, I will switch to one of the channels now! - there is only 1 other network around that I can pull 2 green bars. everything else is just showing up and disappearing.

My next step would be flashing ddwrt or tomato and cranking up the tx power. I have to on mine, being so close to so many networks. I can pick up 19 ssids from my living room.

o.0 -- HUH? HA, sorry. I am only a basic computer person. I will be googleing WTF that is here in a moment

[00tec]

Tomato and ddwrt are custom firmware options. They allow much more than the stock stuff. For example: increasing the radio power in the router.

[TFOGGER]

Tomato and ddwrt are custom firmware options. They allow much more than the stock stuff. For example: increasing the radio power in the router.

Theoretically, of course. Our friends at the FCC might frown on that.

[fly boy]

switched to channel 11 and I am pulling 17mb download.

getting closer to my 30!

[fly boy]

.49mb yes, point 49 mb

[00tec]

Theoretically, of course. Our friends at the FCC might frown on that.

I need to get some not so stateside wireless cards so I can use chan 13... Hehe.

[Zman]

Some of the Netgear routers wont work w/ DDWRT. I put it on 3 of my old Linksys ones, and it is awesome. I actually dropped transmission power at one installation because it was just too much power (did I just say that outloud?). . Another thing to check is location of the router and antenna orientation.

Do you have another wireless device to try ?

Oh yea, are you using G mode, or N.

Z

[trlcavscout]

switched to channel 11 and I am pulling 17mb download.

getting closer to my 30!

What options do you have? 1 6 and 11 are the default auto switching channels. If you can try 3 or 8, they overlap into the auto channels but I generally have good luck in areas with high traffic. I would also get a new AC router if possible, it will support way higher speed then you have now and it has superior antenna technology. I would get the netgear nighthawk for my house if they weren't so dang expensive!

Have be you tried moving the router around in the area it sits? Moving it a foot can make a drastic difference in the broadcast.