Need some help with my Wireless N setup

mogwai · 1 Jan 2010 at 20:45

I have recently got one of the Netgear DGND3300v2 Wireless Router with matching usb adaptors to go with it.

However I seem to getting really poor signal as soon as I go into the next Room and the room the other side of that. In a straight line the furthest Pc location is 15 paces away, in this room I get no wireless G or N reception.

In the middle room the wireless N reception gets to about 27 mbps out of 300 mbps with a signal strength of 22%.

Am I am expecting too much from wireless N?

Mike1983 · 1 Jan 2010 at 21:04

No idea what to expect but I'll let you know what I'm currently getting.

In a 4 bedroom detached house with the router upstairs (above the computer room door) and my laptop more or less directly below it in the room downstairs I'm getting 60% signal and 130Mbps.

My router is a DLink DIR-855

Mike1983 · 1 Jan 2010 at 21:16

I should point out that my figures above are using a wireless N connection at 5GHz by the way. When using a 2.4GHz N connection using thw same laptop in the same location I get 74% and 105Mbps.

RomeoS · 1 Jan 2010 at 21:53

OP, something is definitely up with that.

I get 200-180Mbps in the office/study on the 2nd floor, router is on the ground floor towards the rear of the house.

Using the Draytek Vigor 2820Vn and the laptops built in Intel WiFi Link 5300.

Change the channel you are using as your neighbours may be using the same channel causing you problems. USB Wireless adapters, in my experience, are absolutely tosh for signal.

mogwai · 1 Jan 2010 at 23:13

I have tried all the 5Ghz channel. The furthest PC is 11m away in straigh line through 2 walls. It seems to be bad support for Vista 64 bit, as with my brothers ancient celeron XP laptop gets 80 Mbps which better that vista but still crap for 11m away.

mogwai · 2 Jan 2010 at 21:24

I have sent the lot back to the place I got it from.

Has anyone got any recommendations for Wireless N stuff that supports Vista 64 bit properly? As it seems that the Netgear stuff I have sent back and the Linksys stuff both don't work very well.

Mike1983 · 2 Jan 2010 at 22:35

From direct experience my DLink DIR-615 and DIR-855 work just fine on Vista 64. The 855 is pricey though.

iraiguana · 2 Jan 2010 at 23:06

Draytek and Billion work well and are very stable from my experience, so would recommend their equipment. They are more expensive and do not currently offer dual band wireless though which is a bit of a shame!

mogwai · 3 Jan 2010 at 12:37

I have put my old Linksys WAG54GX2 back on and in the room where the netgear gave no wireless N and 20% wireless G, it gives 80% signal for Wireless G.