Looking for wireless N router with good range

As I said, they will take forever, so be ready for the ride

 

the only place i can find it anywhere near the price of buy.com was dell but it was $20 more. was the place you bought it from competitive?

 

Don't remember exactly, but sometimes is better to pay a little bit more and get the product yesterday than to pay less and be waiting and waiting for the product

I think it was newegg.com

 

newegg has it for inflated price its $299 from newegg haha i think they messed the price up.

 

Yeah, just give them a call and tell them the price you already have from buy.com, they might match it.

 

good idea. I will have to do it tomorrow, they did change the price to $200 i see though.

 

Negotiate the price man, I do it all the time.

 

yeah i will, thanks for the heads up man. hopefully i can get it shipped tomorrow.

 

alright guys my router FINALLY shipped today. I will set it up tomorrow and let you know how it goes, and how i like it.

I might need some technical help though . ALso from what i read on the few amazon reviews is there is a firmware update. do i download that from linksys or will the router have a link when i connect to it to search for new firmwares?

 

If it's a Linksys router then I suggest you download it from their web site.

Who did you buy it from?

 

newegg wouldnt match so i just kept my buy.com order. their site shows it in stock now for $160.99

 

Fantastic, now you can setup your network. How long did it take to get it?

 

I ordered on july 6th and it shipped 5pm today and said it will arrive tomorrow. the buy.com shipping warehouse is close to where i live.

 

Let us know if works well, it should be easy to setup.

 

Well the setup so far has been easy the only thing is im not sure what i should connect to on the 5ghz range and what on the 2.4ghz. the microsoft wireless card for the 360 just cannot seem to get good connection. it seems to jump from 1 bar to 3 bars. it cant get full connect my laptop with a intel n card gets excellent full bars according to vista.

I am not sure if i need to change the channel or how i can boost the signal to get the 360 faster. any help on that would be great.

 

If you are using 5GHz then you should setup your wireless adapter to operate for automatic 20/40MHz bandwidth. Also setup for maximum transmit power.

 

i dont see those settings. and what do i want to set to 5ghz? its basically 2 seperate routers i have 1 i can choose for 5ghz called linksys-5ghz then the normal linksys-2ghz one

and i did not see where the maximum transmit power was at.

 

nevermind i found the transmit power and its set to high. here is a screen shot of the linksys wireless settings should i change any of it?

 

Check on your wireless adapter, the one in your laptop. Just right click on the network icon, select network and sharing center, select status, select properties and then look for those parameters.

 

everything on my laptop seems to be fine. Its the xbox360 that isint getting the 100% reception.

also do i want the laptop to be on 5ghz or 2.4ghz, same for the 360

 

As I said, 5GHz will allowed you to use the 40MHz bandwidth, and get over 140Mbps, perhaps 240Mbps WiFi speed.

 

hmm the 5ghz channel the quality signal is poor for some reason.

 

How far are you from the router amigo?

 

its in a room directly above mine. the 2.4ghz range is full and the 5ghz is 2 bars sometimes it will get to 3 bars. according to vista it ranges from poor to good.

When connected to the 2.4ghz i get 130mpbs according to vista with the 5ghz it either shows 54 or 86 depending on the signal. That doesnt really make sense to me.

the internet speeds dont get affected either way. But i realize im speaking more towards the home network as i have a external HDD hooked up to the router.

 

2.4GHz would not get you 300Mbps, only if you have N and working with 40MHz channel in the 5GHz band.

 

hmm well im on the 2.4ghz band right now and on wireless N and according to vista it shows 130mbps. the 2.4ghz does allow 40mhz i believe.

it seems the 5ghz has little to no range. if i am right next to the router i get full bars if i go a few rooms over on the same floor it drops a bar.

 

That's correct, 20MHz channel will deliver 144Mbps and 40MHz channel will deliver up to 300Mbps.

I thought the 40MHz channel was available only on 5GHz, but I guess you also have it on 2.4GHz.

 

awww i wonder why the 5ghz doesnt have that great of a signal i wonder if its the router or just the location.

 

path loss at 5ghz is usually more than the 2.4 ghz band - here is a link to a review of the WRT600 showing path loss for both bands:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30208/96/1/7/

 

Those graphs are weird. For the same pathloss the 2.4GHz gets a better throughput than for 5GHz. If is the same pathloss then it means they have the same RSL, then they should have exactly the same performance.

Nevertheless, for the same distance 5GHz will have a higher pathloss than for the 2.4GHz, certainly and therefore a smaller throughput.

 

hmm so is the lack of signal why the 2.4ghz range shows a higher mbps?

 

The difference in pathloss between 2.4GHz and 5GHz is 6.4dB. Notice that a 3dB of pathlosss means half power loss.

 

you just confused the crap out of me lol. should i be on the 5ghz band even with less of a signal?

ALSO what the hell are these extra things showing up on my network? when i click them i get some linksys website page that doesnt work.

 

That's _Vista "discovering" all of the different functionalities of your router and treating each as a separate device on the network. In this case, the various components of your router's QoS functionality.

 

If your nice problematic laptop that is sitting on a chair, or on a table or on your laps or your dog's back, is 10 feet from the dark color router sitting on a desk or fixed on the wall or hanging from the ceiling, then the 5GHz signal received by the laptop's wireless card antenna will be smaller by 6.4dB (or 4.3 times smaller) compared to the 2.4GHz signal, in other words, a 2.4GHz has a better coverage, are you still confused?

 

gotcha that makes sense. but with a lesser signal should i still go to the 5ghz signal or should i just go with the 2.4ghz?

 

is there a way to remove them from the list?

 

If you don't have problem with interference, I would suggest you leave it at 2.4GHz.

With regards the icons, if they don't affect the laptop operation then I would just leave them there or perhaps put them in a folder called "Router".