Are Wireless routers designed to die after one year?

tiwtik

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Hello everyone. First of all, my apologies for the English grammar.

I have a 100Mbit internet contract. at Telfort (Dutch provider which is a subcontractor of KPN)
All the wired speeds are 95/100 Mbit UP/Down.

But the wireless speeds are terrible.

My current setup:
Modem (Just a fibre to LAN converter which takes the mac address of the first device to work with and provide internet.)

Behind the modem is a Linksys WRT-610N v2 router (DD-WRT enabled). When I measure the UP and Download speeds from the computers that are connected through the router the speeds are again between 95/100 Mbit UP/Down which is fine.

But when I try wireless the speeds are terrible. A speed test result comes at 13MBit down and maybe 5 UP. I changed the channels, reset the router tried it with an IPad mini, Medion erazer x6812 gaming laptop. Lenovo ideapad y510p. Ps Vita. and every other N capable device i have.

I even bought a new Wi-Fi router which I added to the network and after testing the wireless speed i can conclude it is again terrible. I did i think 100 resets. I excluded 54G devices from my network and tested again but the speeds won't go higher than 40Mbit with a connection loss when I go to the first floor due to router a change. So i was kinda mad at the setup and I performed some more resets, changed router firmwares and exceeded the maximum MW's allowed in the Netherlands a lot. But still no results!

So i just putted the WRT 610n v2 back and removed the second router (Buffalo WZR-HP450) I do have the idea the the output ranges decreases at least 50% every year How can that be?
I do get 13Mbit down now which is actually terrible.

How can I boost the performance. I have tried every setting, every firmware (except openWRT)
Every ip class, every alternative DNS server (As an example: Google and openDNS) But the wireless speeds are terrible. The range is maximum 4 meters (13.1234 Feet) at the same height.

How do i boost the speed. If I get a stable 40 i will be happy. If I can get 60 i would be very happy.

My current laptop:
Lenovo y510p with a new installed windows 8.0
with http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-products/centrino-wireless-n-2230.html

I don't know what to do to get more speed. If you need more information please let me know.

Tiwtik





 
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In the same room as the router what is the best speed you can achienve?

Even if you have a 300mbps connection, if you do not set it for N devices only and AES encryption only, it will only ever go at G speeds which is 54mbps.

If your neighbor is using the same wireless channel as you and has a router with good signal stregnth then you are interfering with one another would cause further reduction in speed.

Router configured at G speeds (54) - distance from router - interference could cause you to only get 13-15mbps.
In the same room as the router what is the best speed you can achienve?

Even if you have a 300mbps connection, if you do not set it for N devices only and AES encryption only, it will only ever go at G speeds which is 54mbps.

If your neighbor is using the same wireless channel as you and has a router with good signal stregnth then you are interfering with one another would cause further reduction in speed.

Router configured at G speeds (54) - distance from router - interference could cause you to only get 13-15mbps.
 
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tiwtik

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Thank you for your answers. I tested it with AES Only and the results are improved by far.

Here is what I did. I Disabled the TKIP option.
The results are for now 42 Mbit/s. Which is 58% loss. That is still a lot!

How can I improve the speed further. I am +-13 Feet away of the router. (4M)

Thanks for the suggestions. It improved the speed a lot.

Tiwtik




 
well, what distance is your router rated for? you can improve speed at distance with a ghetto little trick, pretty much take any bendable piece of metal, such as an empty soda can, cut it in half vertically, and put that around the routers antennae (if it has one) so the metal curves the signal towards your wireless devices :p also, you might want to give your ISP a call and ask them if they know how to help.
 

tiwtik

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@Danbuscus My current connected router does not have external antennas. Only 3 internals. However the Buffalo does have 3 external 5dbi antennas so i can try it with the Buffalo.
But Just a silly question. Isn't this metal making the signals directional in stead of omnidirectional? Because that will result in signal weakness at the first and second floor.

Am i right?