Just picked up a D-Link DR-615 N router on Black Friday for 20 bucks, going to use it primarily for streaming to my Blu-ray player. So here's my question, will leaving my Linksys WRT54G up and running nearby interfere with my new N router at all? They're both in the 2.4ghz frequency band, but my assumption is they'll pick different channels and not effect each others bandwidth. My plan was to leave my wife and daughter on the G router since their needs are low.
No they won't interfere with each other if they are totally disconnected from each other. Or are you connecting them together?
Yeah, I was planning on chaining the new one to the old. So DSL modem -> Linksys WRT54G -> D-Link DR-615.
They should use different channels. If you go with an aftermarket firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato you can force the channel. That's what I'm doing for my two wifi networks at home (public and private).
Just got everything up and running and so far no issues. Just my laptop and the BD player on the new network, and speeds are normal on both G and N.
What kind of speeds are you seeing out of N? With G i can only get like 2.1MB/s which is painful to transfer files that are in the 5GB range. I'm just wondering if it's worth the upgrade to N hardware.
I'll check tonight when I get home. Actually had some trouble with it last night, with my Windows XP netbook. I had read about it in advance, and knew what I needed to do, but apparently the "Wi-fi Protection Setup" doesn't work particularly well with OSs older than Vista and has to be disabled. After standby or reboot the DHCP wouldn't cough up an address for some reason.
Hummm, I have setup WPA and used it on Windows XP probably 100 different times (All I do is setup wireless routers for people all day). The only thing I run into is some older computers only support WEP but that is an easy fix by just getting the latest wireless card drivers and bam, you have WPA support via a software driver update.
Not WPA, but something called WPS. When you go to associate with an access point you have to enter a PIN number located on a decal on the router. I had read it can cause problems, turned it off, and now everything is working fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup
Oh that. Right. I used it sometimes on wireless printers because it is a pain in the ass to enter in the WPA password. In my case I just had to hit a button on the router and a button on the printer and they were connected via the pin less method. I find WPS pretty much useless for anything that actually has a keyboard that you can easily type in the WPA password. But for shit like printers its actually kind of neat. Thats good to know, if I ever have problems on my installs thats another thing for me to check for.
I have two routers one acting as a access point, they both broadcast the same SSID but on different channels.
I'll have to set up a video server for pre streamed vids, I just need to figure out how to do it. All because of the very limited DSL speed available where I live (1.5 max :crybaby: ). A huge drawback to living in the semi-boonies. Steaming from YT is even painfull as hell
What's the distance between your AP and clients? With my N I'm only getting around 2MBps myself, but my AP is 30ft away from the clients and there are two walls in between.
