http://www.speedguide.net/broadband-view.php?hw=91
This is the router I have at the moment. I figured out we were using 2 routers in our house, one near the modem in our garage to spread out the connection through the house... and one to spread the connection to my room from another room. There isn't an ethernet socket in my room, only in the room next to my room so that's why we needed 2...
My download speed sucks and I wanted to know why and now I finally do, the router downstairs is dated as hell, now I want to know if this one is as well?
If it's not outdated for my connection (20 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload) then I think of putting this router downstairs instead of the older one and use the wireless for my laptop.
So... do we need an upgrade or is this router still fine?
Thank you!
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That router is just fine. My linksys wrt54G has the same features...most importantly..it supports 802.11g which is backwards compatible w/ b and it supports WPA2 security...it's not dated..it will get the job done.
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
The Dlink router is just fine. Your setups may not. Your second router is it connected via wireless or cat5. Should be Wired. Is the Dlink the main router or something else?
Is the second router is setup as a AP? or as a router, does not really matter except the def IP's will mess every thing up. You can not have devices with the same IP on the same lan. If your only using the second router to expand your system it needs to be setup as a AP. This will allow the DHCP server on the main router to have control. And the lan ports on the second router are usable. The second router's connection to the main router MUST be wired. You also want the wireless on different channels (1 & 11) and different SSID's.
And if you have more than 1 wireless device it will slow things down. The 54mbps (33 mbps usable) is shared across all devices.
Wireless router up to date or need upgrade?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Chimeray, Sep 10, 2008.