2 DSL Router to give the best of both world.

Talon · 21 Oct 2010 at 16:05

Righto gents,

Question for you. I've been struggling with wireless penetration in the house for ages, ideally I would buy some Homeplugs or run some cabling to the effect area but at the moment both are out of the question (at least for a couple of months, skint).

What I do have are 2 routers, one old and one I was given recently. The newer Belkin thing gives a fantastic wireless signal (well good enough) throughout the house but the DSL sync speed is bad at about 1.8-2mbit. I do have a poor line and live about 6.5km from the exchange but it still bad even for those distances.

The old Netgear DG834N is appauling for wireless coverage but gets me closer to 4mbit DSL connection.

Is it possible to use the ADSL modem side of the netgear and the rest of the features on the Belkin ?

Any info gratefully received otherwise I'll be dusting off my CC and going the Homeplug route

Cheers.
Jon.

Beerbaron · 21 Oct 2010 at 16:12

can you make the Belkin one in to a wireless access point?

a1ex2001 · 21 Oct 2010 at 16:15

Have you checked the actual throughput in the web conection? It maywell be that the belkin is connecting slower but actuallying giving you the same real world download speed?

Other than that see above!

Talon · 21 Oct 2010 at 16:15

Beerbaron said:
can you make the Belkin one in to a wireless access point?

Thanks, I'll have to have a poke around the menu's, I'm not a fan of Belkin stuff but if it saves me money....

it one of these Belkin Play N600 its getting on for top of the range but the menu's seem to be lacking options

It is defintly running a lot slow, test sites come about at about 1.8mbit and when I downloaded I get rates of about 170-200kbps.

Beerbaron · 21 Oct 2010 at 17:00

Not sure about that model but ive seen with other Belkin routers that there are settings to enable it as a wireless access point. All it will then do is extend the wireless signal.

thingemajib · 21 Oct 2010 at 17:38

Talon said:
penetration

snigger.

actually, i have exactly the same problem. getting about 600kbits-1Mbits down on a belkin one (the 8635 on the ocuk site, but bought elsewhere about 18 months ago), but an ancient barely working phillings one will do about 2.50-3Mbits.

Now that you've mentioned this im kinda concerned because im in the process of an RMA, but now im worried that the replacement will do exactly the same :/

Ive also tried getting the two routers to play ball with each other (phillips AP, belkin wireless) without much success, but i dont know much about networking. I know the belkin needs to have dchp disabled, and that the two should be connected through the lan ports, but thats about it.

d_brennen · 21 Oct 2010 at 17:43

To make it into a access point all you have to do is disable the DHCP sever in the Belkin and ethernet them up

You should disable the wifi in the netgear too

As said above, try some real world tests to see what kind of throughput you get on each router first. The reported speed sync speed might not be accurate

Talon · 21 Oct 2010 at 18:09

A quick test on Speedtest.net using the same server each time.

Belkin:

Netgear:

Now the difference isn't as big as I thought so it looks like I also have an issue with my line too, which is an annoying coincedence.

I'll contact the help line which as usual will be a waste of time, so I'll end up writting a letter the to highup. Thanks for the idea's and replys.

Cheers guys

ps. here is a screenie from a while back I found ....