Reliable Wireless?
Sunday 11th March, 2007 23:27 Comments: 0
I'm amazed. I'm using WPA so the encryption is pretty good. This used to make the last router die fairly often, but my new Netgear is still working fine, even after moving nearly 20GB across. It's faster too, I've been copying data and streaming a TV show at the same time without any trouble. I might try streaming HD later. It shouldn't work, but you never know, my signal is pretty good.
I used to have an ADSL modem that I'd borrowed off a friend (Chris). Then I borrowed one from work. Now I own the DG834Gv3 (like many other ADSL users in the country, I'd imagine). The SmartWizard stuff was a pain, foolishly I stuck the CD into my laptop to see what was on it, and then discovered that I couldn't get into the proper admin interface without doing a reset to the factory defaults. But I got in there, I entered all the details, I even changed the LAN IP address range so it matched the existing settings. And I connected:
Connection Speed 4544 kbps Downstream 448 kbps Upstream
Line Attenuation 28 db Downstream 7.5 db Upstream
Noise Margin 7 Downstream db 27 db Upstream
I used to have a signal to noise ratio of about 5.5-6.0 so I might just be lucky tonight, but the SNR is better and my connection is the highest I've seen it connect in a while. The speed test wasn't very good, but I know I'm getting good speeds with my torrents (as in nearly 300k/s). Might try it again later.
I used to have an ADSL modem that I'd borrowed off a friend (Chris). Then I borrowed one from work. Now I own the DG834Gv3 (like many other ADSL users in the country, I'd imagine). The SmartWizard stuff was a pain, foolishly I stuck the CD into my laptop to see what was on it, and then discovered that I couldn't get into the proper admin interface without doing a reset to the factory defaults. But I got in there, I entered all the details, I even changed the LAN IP address range so it matched the existing settings. And I connected:
Connection Speed 4544 kbps Downstream 448 kbps Upstream
Line Attenuation 28 db Downstream 7.5 db Upstream
Noise Margin 7 Downstream db 27 db Upstream
I used to have a signal to noise ratio of about 5.5-6.0 so I might just be lucky tonight, but the SNR is better and my connection is the highest I've seen it connect in a while. The speed test wasn't very good, but I know I'm getting good speeds with my torrents (as in nearly 300k/s). Might try it again later.