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Justintoxicated
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Well I'm getting some strange results...Especially since my old Netgear Bridge is pretty much broken (it won't connect to anything).
First Test I did was Placed the Buffalo router in place of my netgear Router and checked the signal on my wireless USB dongle. It stayed the same. I proceeded to Boost the Signal in DD-WRT using Xmit Power I boosted it from 28 to 100, the signal to the card did not budge...So much for having High signal strength compared to my 3 year old wireless G netgear, or this hack to increase the signal. So far, wasted money.
Now Since my bridge (netgear could still not connect (it can only detect networks, but not connect to them as of last weekend wtf!) It was time to put the router back in place and try the Buffalo as a Bridge.
I placed both routers next to each other; they are roughly 25-30 feet from my Main Router. I enabled the Client Bridge on the Buffalo MIMO Router.
Both Routers had about the same signal I'm getting about 48-60% at this range (Pretty terrible!) DD-WRT However also tells me the signal quality as well which is POOR about 35-39%
Next test was to scan for other local networks. The netgear is picking up all kinds of stuff, between 4 and 7 networks! Some of which appear to have a stronger signal than my own router not more than 30 feet away
(say 35%, 40% 65% and 70-99%)
The Buffalo router only picks up 2-3 networks at a time, not always event he ones that are appearing as 99%, which also have stronger signals! Even our neighbors ancient Wireless B router has a stronger signal (Granted it also appears to have more noise).
So far I'm not too impressed with my new purchase, I thought MIMO was supposed to have a stronger signal than standard G, ESPECIALY with the DD-WRT Hack? What the hell are my neighbors using that is boosting the hell out of all their signals? They are mostly old people that probably don't know anything about computers... Why does my equipment SUCK?
I'm thinking about returning this POS Buffalo router= I should have spent the extra cash for the EnGenius bridge that advertised 400mw power. As u=of right now this was not an upgrade at all, the options in the DD-WRT Firmware are much better but my signal has not increased at all, in fact, it appears to be worse! I set the Buffalo to 150% power and see no difference in signal over it's factory setting. I wish I would not have believed that DD-WRT could actually adjust this...I should have known better.
First Test I did was Placed the Buffalo router in place of my netgear Router and checked the signal on my wireless USB dongle. It stayed the same. I proceeded to Boost the Signal in DD-WRT using Xmit Power I boosted it from 28 to 100, the signal to the card did not budge...So much for having High signal strength compared to my 3 year old wireless G netgear, or this hack to increase the signal. So far, wasted money.
Now Since my bridge (netgear could still not connect (it can only detect networks, but not connect to them as of last weekend wtf!) It was time to put the router back in place and try the Buffalo as a Bridge.
I placed both routers next to each other; they are roughly 25-30 feet from my Main Router. I enabled the Client Bridge on the Buffalo MIMO Router.
Both Routers had about the same signal I'm getting about 48-60% at this range (Pretty terrible!) DD-WRT However also tells me the signal quality as well which is POOR about 35-39%
Next test was to scan for other local networks. The netgear is picking up all kinds of stuff, between 4 and 7 networks! Some of which appear to have a stronger signal than my own router not more than 30 feet away
(say 35%, 40% 65% and 70-99%)The Buffalo router only picks up 2-3 networks at a time, not always event he ones that are appearing as 99%, which also have stronger signals! Even our neighbors ancient Wireless B router has a stronger signal (Granted it also appears to have more noise).
So far I'm not too impressed with my new purchase, I thought MIMO was supposed to have a stronger signal than standard G, ESPECIALY with the DD-WRT Hack? What the hell are my neighbors using that is boosting the hell out of all their signals? They are mostly old people that probably don't know anything about computers... Why does my equipment SUCK?
I'm thinking about returning this POS Buffalo router= I should have spent the extra cash for the EnGenius bridge that advertised 400mw power. As u=of right now this was not an upgrade at all, the options in the DD-WRT Firmware are much better but my signal has not increased at all, in fact, it appears to be worse! I set the Buffalo to 150% power and see no difference in signal over it's factory setting. I wish I would not have believed that DD-WRT could actually adjust this...I should have known better.
