donhanavan wrote:
viafax999 wrote:Yes, it may well be worse at obstacle penetration, the wireless side of all the Verizon routers appears to be somewhat pathetic.
I thought that the netgear N900 was a router not an adapter. How is your home network put together?
Apparently the n900 is also known as the wndr4700 and it can run wds the same as my wndr3700. However i was under the impression that can only be done between 2 netgear routers - I never bothered trying it as I really only use the wndr3700 for streaming to a Vizio tv.
The device that you say is slower is connected wirelessly to the n900 or via ethernet?. If it is connected wirelessly is the n900 set up wityh the same ssid? wep security? no security? both radios on or only one? How exactly is the n900 connected to the rest of the network? Sorry, I just find it confusing as I wasn't aware that you could repeat from a non-netgear base router.
Hmm. Must be worse with them then, because I don't have anything located differently than my old setup/plan.
This is the N900 wireless adapter that I have- http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wireless-adapters/ultimate-wireless-adapters/WNDA4100.aspx Maybe it and the new router don't like eachother :(
Home network is rather simple. Just have the ONT in the basement, and an Ethernet jack on the wall in a second-story bedroom, with an Ethernet cable going from that jack to the MI424WR GigE. Then this desktop with the N900 is down the hall.
When moving, wireless on both setups, from the old ActionTec + N900 (sorry, forgot it's Model Number) to the MI424WR GigE + N900, I see no speed increase, actually slightly slower even, even though the new 75/35 plan is in place (tested/verified with a wired connection test).
Ok...just something to add to the above, because there's no such thing as too much information...
For the hell of it, I took my brother's Netgear WNDR3400v2 router- http://support.netgear.com/product/WNDR3400v2 and plugged it into one of the LAN ports of the Verizon router. I don't hit this every speed test I take wirelessly on it, but, well...it's a little higher than the 25mbps I was hitting on the Verizon router's network:
Now, couple of things...First of all, websites and speed tests are skipping. Like during the speed test, the loading bar that fills up during the ping test would come to a complete stop every half a second or so, for about half a second. But the test didn't "see" this, because the ping was normal (normal for me anyways :(). Same thing happens with websites loading. They load a bit, stall, then load a bit, stall, etc. I know I had the speed problem on the Verizon router. What's causing this stuttering on the Netgear one?
Also, and this may be relevant to the above question, the light next to the little globe icon on the Verizon router signaling an Internet connection keeps blinking. Isn't it supposed to be a solid green light, not a blinking one? Same with the green light for the LAN ports I have cables plugged into, they blink sporatically as well.
Finally...this speed test was done on the 5Ghz band. The Netgear router is a dual-band router, and after plugging it into the Verizon router, I first connected to the Netgear's 2.4Ghz band and ran the speed test. I hit roughly 25mbps, same as I'm stuck with on the Verizon one. But, for the hell of it, I decided to try the 5Ghz one, and got the fast result pictured above. I don't get this speed every time, but it is usually in the mid 80's, which is an excellent wireless result for my 75/35 plan. Hell I don't mind keeping this Netgear one plugged into the Verizon one from now on, if I could just get the stuttering to stop.
Are Verizon's routers really that bad that I need a Netgear router plugged into it to get the speed I'm paying for? Well, regardless, best-case scenario: I'd love to know what's going on with every question I have. But if that's not possible, then I'd just be happy with getting the stuttering on the Netgear router to stop. If I have to leave it plugged in for whatever reason just to get the speeds I should be getting then so be it :/