New adapters?

[Dougiebabe2003]

HI there,

Had this router for a while now and had no problems with it thus far:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-072-LS&groupid=46&catid=1012&subcat=

Also got these for all the wireless peoples around the house:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-058-LS&groupid=46&catid=1002&subcat=

Now the above aren't so fun but do work. I don't have any PC's with below 3 bars signal and always get around 48mb on the connection speed.

Just wondering if there is any point in getting this instead?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-067-LS&groupid=46&catid=1002&subcat=

Would I see any speed difference &/or signal increase?

If not, how does this Belkin N router compare to my one?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-078-BE&groupid=46&catid=1014&subcat=

I know the above is without a ADSL modem but can use my current router with that one to get internet...ONly thinking that the Belkin is wireless N and has gigabit ports instead of Fast Ethernet...

Cheers in advance, Doug.

 

[tolien]

You'd see some speed improvement, but no difference in range using Speedbooster adapters.
I wouldn't touch Belkin kit with a bargepole, but YMMV.

 

[benjo plz.]

Can you tomato/HyperWRT etc that router? would probably be a start, usb adapters are generally awful, may be the transmit power of them that's the problem.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

Can you tomato/HyperWRT etc that router? would probably be a start, usb adapters are generally awful, may be the transmit power of them that's the problem.

Tomato/HyperWRT?

Was thinking of using PCI wireless cards but couldn't find one that was cheap and had a removable ariel.

Like I said, The signal on the USB adapters aren't that bad and I could 'mod' the router with tin foil and cardboard which gives me 100% signal but then looks crap... I could also use my Pringles canntena if I need more signal.

Just wondering what speed increase I would be looking at with the speedbooster models?

Cheers again, Doug.

 

[tolien]

Speedbooster is just compression rather than channel bonding or anything more advanced, so it would vary with what you were shifting over the network.

Tomato and HyperWRT (Google is your friend) are open source firmware for the Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL, but because other makes and models use identical hardware it's sometimes possible to run them on other routers.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

Speedbooster is just compression rather than channel bonding or anything more advanced, so it would vary with what you were shifting over the network.

Tomato and HyperWRT (Google is your friend) are open source firmware for the Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL, but because other makes and models use identical hardware it's sometimes possible to them on other routers.

Cheers for the reply!

So 108Mbps isn't MIMO then it's just compression, learn something everyday

Normally just streaming music and videos with the occasional massive file transfer taking allll night. Latter being the reason to want to upgrade. (Also use VNC as well)

As to the tomato and HyperWRT it all sounds a bit to scary to me lol. I may have a look into it using my new friend Google

Cheers again, Doug.

 

[tolien]

108Mbps with what? Speedbooster does 125Mbps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125_High_Speed_Mode

Most 108Mbps setups do it by bonding two 802.11g (i.e. 54Mbps) channels, and using both at once. Consequently, there's no improvement in range (and a reduction in resiliance to interference because you're more or less using the entire WiFi spectrum) but you should get an improvement in speed regardless of what you transfer. That isn't MIMO either though.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

108Mbps with what? Speedbooster does 125Mbps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125_High_Speed_Mode

Most 108Mbps setups do it by bonding two 802.11g (i.e. 54Mbps) channels, and using both at once. Consequently, there's no improvement in range (and a reduction in resiliance to interference because you're more or less using the entire WiFi spectrum) but you should get an improvement in speed regardless of what you transfer. That isn't MIMO either though.

My head just exploded...

I will eventually understand it all but until then I will live my life on the wiki

So 125mbps is speedbooster and is only compression?

108mbps uses two of the 11 channels.... can I ask how that helps? How does that give a speed increase? Is it just able to send out twice as much data because their is twice the wave-length avalible?

So no speedbooster tech is MIMO? Is this only with N then?

Cheers again, Doug.

 

[tolien]

Speedbooster is compression, does 125Mbps, and doesn't do MIMO. There are MIMO routers which aren't 802.11n, but 802.11n devices have to do MIMO to be 802.11n - or pre-n/draft-n or whatever. 802.11n isn't a proper standard yet.

Only three out of the 11 channels are distinct - the channels between 1 and 6 and 6 and 11 are close enough that if two devices use two of them they'll interfere with each other.
Super G (aka 108Mbps) is like having two 54Mbps connections at once, hence they're bonded.