- May 16, 2010
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Hello Tom's Forum users, Just a quick and simple thread today.
I have an ASUS RT-N56U Wirless router, pretty cheap and did the job the last year at my apartment. anyways, I move to a house and the internet has been fine until all my roommates moved in. Watching netflix, youtube, etc. the speed is really slow. I don't believe it is the actual network speed because we pay for 50 download and 10 upload. Rather I think the issue is with the router. I do a speed test on my laptop and I get 1 download and 1 upload. playing games my ping is 40 and spikes to 1000+ and makes it unplayable.
I'm wondering and asking for confirmation (before I go buy a new router) that indeed the router is the problem.
It's a cheap router, paid $60-70 for it, and I'm wondering maybe it just gets overloaded or overwhelmed by the amount of clients on the network.
Like I stated before, the internet was perfect before my roommates moved in, so it was like 2-3 clients on the network, now its 11-12 (depending on how many laptops are on, xbox, etc).
One last thing, the only thing that has ZERO network problems is my main PC, which is the only client connected to the 5ghz version of my network (for some reason my brand new ASUS laptop can't see it).
So Tom's hopefully you can tell me it is indeed the router and possibly show me what one I should get (try to keep it under $200 CAD and ASUS brand or Dlink/Linksys)
Thank you guys!
I have an ASUS RT-N56U Wirless router, pretty cheap and did the job the last year at my apartment. anyways, I move to a house and the internet has been fine until all my roommates moved in. Watching netflix, youtube, etc. the speed is really slow. I don't believe it is the actual network speed because we pay for 50 download and 10 upload. Rather I think the issue is with the router. I do a speed test on my laptop and I get 1 download and 1 upload. playing games my ping is 40 and spikes to 1000+ and makes it unplayable.
I'm wondering and asking for confirmation (before I go buy a new router) that indeed the router is the problem.
It's a cheap router, paid $60-70 for it, and I'm wondering maybe it just gets overloaded or overwhelmed by the amount of clients on the network.
Like I stated before, the internet was perfect before my roommates moved in, so it was like 2-3 clients on the network, now its 11-12 (depending on how many laptops are on, xbox, etc).
One last thing, the only thing that has ZERO network problems is my main PC, which is the only client connected to the 5ghz version of my network (for some reason my brand new ASUS laptop can't see it).
So Tom's hopefully you can tell me it is indeed the router and possibly show me what one I should get (try to keep it under $200 CAD and ASUS brand or Dlink/Linksys)
Thank you guys!
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