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Re: Home Internet and wifi extender
I use a separate EAP1250 access point nowhere near the router and it works fine. I just hooked it up to an ethernet connection via a switch on the same LAN as the router. I configured it witha staticIP address which works with the router's fixed subnetand basically ignore the Wifi that came with it. Thisseems to work well and has a much better signal in my home and garage (for the wifi enabled sprinkler control). It isn't mounted to the roof, just next to the switch. EAP1250 - Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2 AC1300 Compact Indoor Wireless AP I expect this will work with any standalone access point which doesn't just retransmit another signal.17Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
I hooked up an external antenna and it helped not one bit. I still just get 2 bars on 5G as a secondary connection to go along with my 3 bars of 4G coverage, Walking around doesn't seem to improve the connection but it's hard to tell since the meter on the cylinder just shows the best 3bar connection and not specifically 5G. I don't have a 5G phone to test with. Looking at the Cellmapper web site I don't see the only 5G connection I can get; N41 / PCI 7. Supposedly my area has "5G Ultra Capacity" coverage but the towers to support that don't show up on cellmapper.net; mostly just along the freeways. I guess it only has what users submit. Maybe I should hook up the external antenna to the 4G line and try to get more than 3 bars. Usually the 4G is much better than what I used to have but sometimes it's spotty with even poorer performance than my old 10 megabit DSL.I suspect that the router doesn't do that great of a job handling the drastically shifting speeds available so I get lots of bufferbloat and whatnot. Upload speeds are often < 1 megabit with tests often failing to even complete when there are slowdowns. Edit: I still get 2 bars on my antenna for 5G even with the antenna disconnected so maybe I didn't get it connected right. The again, it was the same with the internal antenna so perhaps I just can't get a freaking 5G signal at my house despite being in a "5G ultra capacity" zone.:|2Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
I tried to post to this thread earlier but it was sent to moderation and never showed. I'm on B66/n41 no matter where I place the router with B66 getting 3 bars at best and n41 getting two. I get ~225Mbps at best although there has been some brief instability in my first week with speeds temporarily dropping. My old internet was so awful that it's still 10-20 times faster with TMobile. I ordered the external antenna and will see what that does for me. My TMobile/Nokia (cylinder) gateway is sitting high up at the top of a cabinet on the north west of my house. I don't use the wireless that comes with the gateway since I have a better one in use already. I hooked the cylinder up to my LAN via Cat-6. I had to switch everything else to the 192.168.12.x subnet which was annoying but had no problems beyond that. I tried seeing if I could move the router and get switched to the n41 band but all I got was a really slow B66 connection. There's probably just one tower I can really reach. In my particular location I have mountains to the East and a valley to the West. I assume that really fake looking tree down the street is the tower 🙂 Local "geographic features" prevented me from using other wireless services. I tried signing up and was told it wouldn't work so was really happy when the 5G router worked. I wish I had known sooner as the older LTE router probably would have been an improvement over my old DSL. I can't get good digital TV signals here for many stations btw. Line of sight actually goes down towards the tower so it has trees and houses and whatnot in the way so I'm good with 3 bars if that's all I ever get. It's still better than the 10Mbps DSL phone lines I had for the previous 10+ years.3Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED
I get b66/n41 currently which is normally guaranteed to be better than the old 10 Mbps max per phone line I got with DSL for the last decade. Speeds have been fairly inconsistent although normally (but not always!) better than 10 Mbps. I get 3 bars with b66 and 2 with n41. I have seen over 200 Mbps but also disconnects from time to time. Usually it's over 100 Mbps which is still great for me. I've had it for 3days now. I like usinghttps://fast.com/for a quick Netflix specific test andhttp://www.dslreports.com/speedtestto keep track. That's 'http' and not 'https' since the secure connection doesn't always work with the test for some reason.0Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Home Internet Static IP
I was unable to sign up for Venmo even after sending them a copy of my passport and driver's license because they detected my location as being in Hawaii while my bank account and address were in my actual state of residence. I've also had whitelisting issues for work related projects because of changing IP addresses.2Visto1like0Comentarios