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The most reliable Cable wireless router?
Does anyone know what the most reliable wireless cable router is? I have tried two different models now, but still had no luck. I have a Netgear Range Max WPN824 router with a WPN511 adapter, and also a D-link Dir-301 router with a DWA-111 adapter. Both of them work excellent occasionally, but sometimes they don't. I'm not running both together by the way, I have tried them seperately. It's not the wireless that's the problem, I run the main pc through an ethernet cable to the router. I can't understand why they won't give a stable connection. I have downloads getting stopped occasionally. And also slow browsing speeds every couple of days. They are very temparamental.
Could you guys let me know what's considered the most reliable router?
really, it depends on the house, not the router-certain things can knock the wireless connection off (including, but not limited to, energy saving lightbulbs, microwaves, televisions, mirrors, windows, and any infra-red device-oh, and if you live in an old house, that has steel in the structure, that will do it in too)
You forgot to mention Xmas decorations and fish tanks.
How many PC's are you trying to connect and what O/S es are you running on them?
Are you sure its the routers at fault? Firstly , if you have'nt already done so connnect your main PC directly to your modem (use ethernet cable if possible)and reboot everything including (important)the modem, power it off then back on. Does the problem go away? if so then I would agree the chances are the problem lies with the router.
Have you tried changing the channels on the routers or are you running them on the default channels? If so then try changing channels. Are you using encryption on your network?could somebody be using your connection ? make sure your network is encrypted wpa psk enabled. If they're USB wireless adaptors your using it could be a USB Port/PC problem? try another PC.Try downloading the latest firmware and drivers. If none of that helps as has already been suggested its likely to be some sort of structural/interference issue. In which case its simple just move house.
You might have a close neighbour using the same WiFi channel as you.
There are 11 channels for WiFi with Ch1 using the lowest frequency. The default seems to be Ch6, so I'd try ch1 or ch11 and see if that helps.
Other than that, check what times it is poor and see if it coincides with any heating timer you may have. It may well be another electrical device in your house that's causing it.
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