Router Antennas

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by thenry

the manual says they are. obviously this is wrong for some versions but all of them?

Which manual?

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Originally Posted by Waldo Pepper

Which are range tested results and all turn to pants once inside someone's house.

Heh, that much we can agree on...

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Originally Posted by robson689

None in particular, I just saw one of their routers today and it looked pretty impressive, it had 6 antennas, 3 for 2.4GHz and 3 for 5GHz. I've tried to find information about it but can't find anything (don't have the model number as it was mounted on a wall).

Pfft, Netgear WNDR3700 has 8 antennas.

Cisco 2602i's have only 4, but all 4 are simultaneous dual-band and with some Cisco vector beamforming, makes for some fun results. Probably outperforms those 6 by a mile (though I haven't actually played around with ours yet, the 1142's were disappointing...)

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Originally Posted by robson689

Btw has anyone heard of the router company called H3C?

Never. Personally I'd go for Meru or Extricom myself.

[thenry]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Which manual?

UK Revision B has it stated > http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/p...nual_EN_UK.pdf

UK Revision D hasn't > http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/p...4_01_EN_UK.pdf

UK Revision H hasn't > http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/p...4_01_EN_UK.pdf

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by thenry

UK Revision B has it stated > http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/p...nual_EN_UK.pdf

A little bit of homework goes a long way when others are questioning an answer does it not.

[thenry]

Peter you call Qas a stalker all the while picking off mine and his conversation. stop causing trouble hypocrite!

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by thenry

Peter you call Qas a stalker all the while picking off mine and his conversation. stop causing trouble hypocrite!

Are you a complete fool, I think the above proves it, go back to your tinfoil hat or the noise might reappear, your post proved that I was quite correct.

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Quit it - the pair of you. I am sick to death of seeing you two arguing all the time.

Put yourselves on each others ignore list because if I see the pair of you argue again, I shall suspend your accounts. I have had enough!

[thenry]

ok Mick. this is a proper reply. electrical fraud plus cloning. i happily admitted i was wrong after having to dig deep for a pro electrician. clones were knocked off. you said there were no clones. anyway i did think 'the thieves' were messing with something more serious on the network with what was going on in other peoples homes as well, even those with no VM but ready for VM services. same old cable point ticking over. like i said i happily admitted i was wrong.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by thenry

UK Revision B has it stated > http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/p...nual_EN_UK.pdf

The Virgin Media issued ones (and practically every one in the UK) are revision D.

VM were too cheap to go for the standard build, and made D-Link cut cut out every optional component and then some, including the rubber feet, the metal shield on the ethernet ports, the external antenna connectors, and eventually even the internal antenna connectors were removed to save money (hence why D4 has them soldered straight on).

The B revision was a short run Ubicom unit that isn't supported by dd-wrt or openwrt. You'll never see one in real life. Incidentally, it's also a pile of crap.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

The Virgin Media issued ones (and practically every one in the UK) are revision D.

VM were too cheap to go for the standard build, and made D-Link cut cut out every optional component and then some, including the rubber feet, the metal shield on the ethernet ports, the external antenna connectors, and eventually even the internal antenna connectors were removed to save money (hence why D4 has them soldered straight on).

The B revision was a short run Ubicom unit that isn't supported by dd-wrt or openwrt. You'll never see one in real life. Incidentally, it's also a pile of crap.

Qasi will know from his forays into the SH. Aren't the antennae in the SH glued on or something as cheapskate? Didn't they reduce the number of antennae from the standard CG3101D? Isn't it just the sotry of the SH? Cut out good stuff to get the cost down?

[qasdfdsaq]

The Superhub has two antenna, but removable antenna connectors. That'd be hard to cut down, as they are connected to an add-in PCIe card and those practically never come with soldered on antennae.

I don't know how many antennae the CG3101D has but in order to have reduced the number VM would also had to have downgraded the wireless card itself, because it only has two connectors.

[Sephiroth]

There's your answer then. Customised even down to the PCIe card.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

There's your answer then. Customised even down to the PCIe card.

I think the word you really want is illegitimised, or words to that effect.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Peter_

I think the word you really want is illegitimised, or words to that effect.

OOps. How could I have let that slip?!!

[robson689]

VM seem to have an obsession with shiny finger print magnets :P I looked online at pictures of the normal DIR-615 and it has a matte black top like my DIR-301 does.

Does anyone know why VM like shiny things so much?? Haha :P

I'm just waiting on the "pig tails" now anyway since I got the antennas this morning.

[qasdfdsaq]

There's a matte version of the Superhub floating around somewhere...