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| 1318683 | 2012-12-17 06:48:00 | Or one of these (jaycar.co.nz) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1318684 | 2012-12-20 02:26:00 | Just buy one of these as it totally annihilated my problem of lack of signal down one end of the house..Cisco Linksys RE1000 Truly impressed with it and been using 4 months without problem & easy to setup with lappy: www.pbtech.co.nz |
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| 1318685 | 2012-12-20 02:35:00 | Advertised from Ascent www.ascent.co.nz Yeah they ought to work Anyway, if possible I'll be looking at replacing it sooner or later. Probably sooner if it doesn't perform well under load, which in past experience has been every ISP issued piece of hardware except for the dynalink modem orcon gave us, despite running hot enough to nearly melt itself it has run brilliantly (although the 5" fans probably saved it :P ) Not the flashest modem but it does the job well. I do have hopes for the Genius though, apparently it isn't too bad. It's not, it's easy to make it fall over. Ring up and tell them you've got issues with TeamSpeak3 though disconnecting you and they'll put you on a newer, more experimental version of the firmware, but it's been more reliable in the instances I've had it. Still not the most reliable under some decent load though. Another option is to have routers bridging (passing on) the signal, although because the wireless signal has to be transmitted AND recieved simultaneously (the bridge will operate in half duplex mode) as well as complete and extra hop it could impact a bit on performance. For general browsing it really should be fine but streaming, some HD or gaming content might get a little patchy. Not sure though since I don't have extensive experience with a bridged/extended network. All WiFi is half-duplex, that's why all WiFi bridges effectively halve the speed you'd normally get. Another option is a better AP connected to one of the geniuses ports or using a power line adapter (not necessarily this one, but something similar www.ebay.com) to pass ethernet to another AP to extend the signal. That last option is expensive though, you're looking at say $60 for the power things + $100 for a router/AP Agreed. Most reliable, slightly more expensive. I probably will do that Wainuitech. I am just a bit worried that the extender needs to be close enough to the router to pick up a good signal yet far enough away to broadcast into the dead-zones. Correct, it does, but they usually have semi-decent antenna and they usually also pump out more power to them too for even better range. |
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