Maximum Speed through Wireless on G2S-A1?

Hey all,

I've recently purchased the new D-Link DGL-4500 Extreme Wireless N Gaming Router in hopes of getting some of that juicey bandwidth that N claims to give, but I'm still only connecting at 54mbits.

Any suggestions? Running 64bit Ultimate, latest drivers (1.11.11.11 or whatever that is off the Asus site).

I've even checked advanced properties of the adapter itself to ensure that it was set up properly and all options are checked and correct.

Are the wireless N adapters in these notebooks just range enhanced or should i be getting up to the 150-300mbits range that Extreme N is supposed to provide me?

Thanks in advance

Zack

 

So fiddling with it a bit more, My PC seems to absolutely refuse connecting in N mode. I set the router up to only run in 'N' mode and windows told me that I couldn't connect to the network because it wasn't supported.

This is the card in our laptops: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/wireless/wireless_n/overview.htm

What am i missing here guys?

 

I'm just curious why it is you need more than 54Mbps for gaming? No game needs bandwidth near that much, so you really won't gain anything by using N, at least not in terms of game performance, maybe range or something like that, but not performance.

 

What kind of security setting do you have on the router? I have a G2S-B1 with a Netgear RangeMax router and it works with speeds up to 180. I have learned to get the boost in speed you cannot use a WEP key, you have to use WPA2-PSK, WPA-PSK.

 

I'm currently running WPA2-PSK TKIP.

No game needs that much bandwidth, however at 54mbits its not the most stable media server for TVersity to broadcast over to my PS3 in HD. With the USB stick i have it works just fine, so i might have to break down to that when I'm doing it.

As for the bandwidth question, getting over 108mbits gives you lots of headroom for running TVersity server without having to plug into the LAN. My server transcodes and upscales everything to 1080p and then shoots it to my PS3, so more bandwidth = less chance of stutters or the bitrate getting decreased by the transcoder to avoid stutters.

Also, the 360, PS3, and Wii all maintain their connections, so having a router that has an overall higher bandwidth will ensure that my actual speeds dont get hosed. (if i was on a 54g, then you'd divide 54g by 3-5 times depending on if my laptops were on. Still enough for most cases, but not for media sharing)

 

What routers are you guys successfuly connecting to at N speeds? The whole reason I spent close to 200 bones on this stupid thing was to get N and I'll put my hand on a hot stove before I keep a product that wont work the way I need it to

I really dug the OLED display. Does anyone have any thoughts on the Belkin NVision router?
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=377018

 

Did you make sure all the all the wireless settings on the laptop were set up to accept that? Mine was defaulted to WEP on the laptop. The only other thing I can think of is checking the channel of the router and the laptop. Mine only works on channel 11.

 

I use a Netgear WNR834B

 

I've been able to connect at N speeds using the D-Link DIR-655 with my G2S. It should be using the same chipset as your DGL-4500.

 

Breakthrough: I have to have my router set to WPA/WPA2 mode for compatibility with older devices, however i manually specified WPA2 AES on my laptops and I'm now at 130mbits on both laptops.

Is that my cap for this mode? Is there a way to get closer to that 300mbit prize without shutting down some of my legacy device's connectivity?

Or do I need to be in 5GHz mode to run at 300mbit?

 

Windows with the 4965AGN and my D-Link seems to always display 130 Mbps. If you want to check actual bandwidth, I would use another application.

The D-Link will drop to using a single channel, when it detects legacy networks running in one of it's channels, so your neighbors can have a working wireless network.