I recently moved to an apartment, where I rent a small portion of the second floor of a big house. The internet here is on paper a 25/25 fiber connection, but I'm having a lot of struggles. Now to start off, I'm going to need the best advice you can give without me having to go mess with the routers and stuff, since it's in the owners part of the house and I will not have access to it without permission, and it will be difficult if I have to go back and forth all the time.
Now, there are two access points on this internet. They are both a substantial distance away from my apartment, so the connection varies between 2/5 and 4/5 bars. One of the access points have the radio type 11n, and the other one has 11g. I'm curious as to if having two different radio types can mess with connectivity. I'm using my laptop, which uses an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 wireless adapter. I'm using the driver 16.1.1, which I believe is the newest (Newest may not always be the best when it comes to Intel drivers, I've heard...).
The weird problems I have, is that if I try to connect to the 11n, which you would think is the best fit, since I have a wireless-n adapter, it gets stuck in a loop when trying to identify the network. It connects, then tries to identify, then it loses the connection completely, and repeats that cycle indefinitely. Now, sometimes, if I completely uninstall the driver software, and reinstall it, I can connect to it, and the internet will work at the speed it should work, but after an indefinite period of time, I'll be thrown out of the internet again. The time it takes to lose connection varies between 1 minute and 10 hours, so it's very weird. I've also tried removing IPv6 from the configuration, but that didn't help.
Now, if I connect to the second access point, with 11g, I get different problems. This one is much more stable (although occasionally I will get booted from this one too, but I will be able to reconnect after a while without reinstalling my drivers). The problem here is that the bandwidth is terrible. At the most I can get around 3/1, but often it's down to 0.6/0.1. I've also tried in the adapter settings to set the configuration to G-mode, but it didn't help (although I'm not sure if I did it correctly...).
Now, I also have a desktop with an ASUS N600 adapter, and it has the same exact problems, except that it also gets terrible bandwidth on the 11n one. On my phone I can connect to both access points without problems, but the bandwidth is so bad it's faster to use 3G.
I tried to go into ipconfig to get the IP of the gateway, but when I try to connect to it via browser to get to the web configuration page, I just get connection timed out. I don't know if they have a whitelist?
The weird part is that when I first got here, I didn't have that many issues. I was on my desktop with a stable connection on the 11n for about a week or two (Still with low bandwidth the entire time, no matter the access point), then it just got worse and worse.
I've sent an email to the owner about my issues, but I haven't gotten the idea that they are also experiences issues. I do not know if they only have desktop with wired connections, or if they are experiencing the same bandwidth issues, but are too soft internet users to even notice.
If any of you immediately recognize the issue and know how to solve it without multiple back and forth prodding attempts, I can ask if I can go down and fix it, but I would rather run around in their home poking and prodding on their property. If not, I just want to know things I can try on my own computer, or any advice I can get. For example if I should buy them a new router so I can set the router to N-mode, or if there is a previous driver that's better, or anything at all really. This is really getting on my nerves.
Thanks so much for reading, and for replying
Now, there are two access points on this internet. They are both a substantial distance away from my apartment, so the connection varies between 2/5 and 4/5 bars. One of the access points have the radio type 11n, and the other one has 11g. I'm curious as to if having two different radio types can mess with connectivity. I'm using my laptop, which uses an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 wireless adapter. I'm using the driver 16.1.1, which I believe is the newest (Newest may not always be the best when it comes to Intel drivers, I've heard...).
The weird problems I have, is that if I try to connect to the 11n, which you would think is the best fit, since I have a wireless-n adapter, it gets stuck in a loop when trying to identify the network. It connects, then tries to identify, then it loses the connection completely, and repeats that cycle indefinitely. Now, sometimes, if I completely uninstall the driver software, and reinstall it, I can connect to it, and the internet will work at the speed it should work, but after an indefinite period of time, I'll be thrown out of the internet again. The time it takes to lose connection varies between 1 minute and 10 hours, so it's very weird. I've also tried removing IPv6 from the configuration, but that didn't help.
Now, if I connect to the second access point, with 11g, I get different problems. This one is much more stable (although occasionally I will get booted from this one too, but I will be able to reconnect after a while without reinstalling my drivers). The problem here is that the bandwidth is terrible. At the most I can get around 3/1, but often it's down to 0.6/0.1. I've also tried in the adapter settings to set the configuration to G-mode, but it didn't help (although I'm not sure if I did it correctly...).
Now, I also have a desktop with an ASUS N600 adapter, and it has the same exact problems, except that it also gets terrible bandwidth on the 11n one. On my phone I can connect to both access points without problems, but the bandwidth is so bad it's faster to use 3G.
I tried to go into ipconfig to get the IP of the gateway, but when I try to connect to it via browser to get to the web configuration page, I just get connection timed out. I don't know if they have a whitelist?
The weird part is that when I first got here, I didn't have that many issues. I was on my desktop with a stable connection on the 11n for about a week or two (Still with low bandwidth the entire time, no matter the access point), then it just got worse and worse.
I've sent an email to the owner about my issues, but I haven't gotten the idea that they are also experiences issues. I do not know if they only have desktop with wired connections, or if they are experiencing the same bandwidth issues, but are too soft internet users to even notice.
If any of you immediately recognize the issue and know how to solve it without multiple back and forth prodding attempts, I can ask if I can go down and fix it, but I would rather run around in their home poking and prodding on their property. If not, I just want to know things I can try on my own computer, or any advice I can get. For example if I should buy them a new router so I can set the router to N-mode, or if there is a previous driver that's better, or anything at all really. This is really getting on my nerves.
Thanks so much for reading, and for replying
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