Range on my netgear DG84G

What kind of range with respect to signal strength would I get on that router?

 

I dont know the exact but a good 300ft. A 100ft radius of a decent signal. You could probaly get a very low signal 500ft away. Hope it helps

Nick

 

Whoa, 500feet...that's over 100 meters

 

Yes, on my router ive read of 750Ft. But remember, thats when the signal is just readable. Im sure at 300Ft it gets pretty low. But its always good to be by your router to have the best speeds possible.

 

Yeah, and stuff like walls and other electromagnetic devices are going to shorten this thing significantly.

 

Very true, if your router is right by a cordless phone, it rings, it could kill your signal basically anywhere when your wireless.

 

The cordless phone itself?or the base unit?

 

Im not really sure, all i know for a fact is when the phone rings, it cuts the wireless signal out. How big of area are you wanting the router to cover? But this can be solved by just putting the router at a higher channel, like channel 12. But where are you going to be using the router and how big of area?

 

The base unit communicates with the phone wirelessly, both transmit to each other, so it doesn't really matter.

I never experienced wireless signal cutoffs due to my phone (which operates at 2.4GHz), but then again I've always been running on channel 11. I do get occasional echo in the phone, which may have something to do with interference from the wireless AP to the phone, but it's not a big problem.

Of course, I don't get 100 meters range. Not even close. But there are walls everywhere, so it is expected I guess.

 

So what's the difference in the channels?
I see there are lots to swtich between.

 

Theres 1-11. All it does is just change the frequency minorly. Like 6 is 2.4GHz and 11 is 2.486GHz or something like that. All it does is just really switch the frequency minorly. But your wireless will work on all channels.