Originally Posted By: pandus13
Originally Posted By: alarmguy
TWC Cable, advertised 6 Mbps but I actually get 7.25 down and 1.25 up. Along with the TP link equipment posted above this post.
I am CRAZY about proper connections,
extensive use of Snap on Ferrite filters on every low and high power line in the network, Im a big believer in these and they are dirt cheap. I not only put them on the power line near the networking devices but at both ends of the line. I normally put two right next to each other in critical areas like where the power goes into the modem and router, as well as both ends of the data cable from modem to router, also large ones on the main power leads to the surge suppressor and UPS ! (I know, sounds crazy) but there is some sound reasons.
Click here for an example and good equipment properly placed.
As hard as some people might find this to believe, we have NO issues
what so ever, Hulu, Netflex etc.
Equipment in our house, 3 laptops, i pad, two desktops, 4 Roku players, Ooma phone service, normal wifi connections with our cell phones and more, I cant keep track anymore of all the wifi devices, granted its only my wife and I now, so all these devices are not on at one time, but many operate in the background, but even with my now graduated college daughter who used to be at the house, never an issue.
Thank you. Educational!
now in a typical 900SQFT condo with internal walls of 1/2" drywall and sticks, what would be a good placement/strategy for the wireless router?
tall position and kind of middle of the room/wall?
i noticed i was 10 ft from the router and my linux mint laptop was telling me 85% signal strength
Thank you (nice to learn something new)
Your thinking on placement is correct. Since you live in a condo, you will have a lot of nearby routers, if you really want to be anal about things you can down load any number of free wifi analyzer apps for an Android or Apple phone or Windows computer and look at your neighbors networks and what channels they are using, you can then, if you want go into your router settings and turn off "auto" channel selection and select a channel in your area with the least amount of signals/power from other routers on it.
Before you do, you could simply google selecting the best wifi channel.
Normally in the 2.5 ghz band meaning 1, 6, 11 since channels overlap.
If you have a dual band you can select a more quiet 5 GHZ band as well. The 5 GHZ will normally be more quiet (for now) but the higher freq. does not travel through walls as effectively as the 2.5 and those antennas on routers are normally for the 5 GHZ for that reason...Lots of reading on google which I would suggest just to get an idea, its not involved at all though. Anyway, the purpose is to cut down possible interference from nearby homes using the same channels. Select the channels that have the weakest signals on them.
I have no knowledge on Linux and may pick some brains in here someday, I have a few older (but 2 are not that old) computers I am about to get rid of but want to play around with Linux on the one or two not to old ones.
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