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Kitsunaka

Kitsunaka

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Hi people, how are you doing?

I moved recently to my new apartment a couple of months ago. Now I started to put together my office and I had some complications...
My router (D-Link - DIR-809 - Dual Band) needed to stay at my living room, wich is a little far from the office. I would love to get my and my wife's PCs wired, but sadly that's not going to happen.

For my PC Initially I bought a D-Link Nano Wireless Dual Band USB Adaptor DWA-171, I thought that the 5ghz would help me gaming, but the quality of this product is questionable after some use in my opinion.

Using the 5ghz connection, ping in gaming was better than I expected for a wifi connection, but after some time I started to get huge lag spikes, I managed to fix it setting some netsh configuration. After that It was all good, then after a couple of days, the internet connection became awful, slow and unstable.

I had a hard time to figure that for some reason the problem was in the 5ghz connection, when I connected to 2.4ghz everything was normal.
I think that the DWA-171 Is not handling well the 5ghz. I tested with my smartphone the 5ghz connection and It was working just fine. I don't know what to do to fix this, do you have any Idea?

And yesterday I set up my wife's PC, but it's still without any wireless solution, so now I need to find a good solution to connect both PCs to the internet. Do you have any recommendations to this matter?

Thank you for the attention.
 
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Kitsunaka

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I see, it is a room distance, 1 wall, 1 door, about 16 feets / 5 meters in direct distance from my PC and 23 feets / 7 meters from my wife's PC.
I was not thinking to expend much more, something about 60 bucks or less.
Thanks!
 
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Except those two computers, how many devices are using that same WIFI ?
Could you confirm that your routers CPU isn't overloaded most of the time ?
You can check this from router administration /statistics, there should be some about bandwidth, cpu and memory usage.
 
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Kitsunaka

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misteriosly,
Besides the PCs, 2 smartphones, sometimes a laptop, the TV is wired, nothing else.
I will check it out as soon as I can. I don't believe that the router is overloaded, but the USB adaptor gets pretty hot.
Pooneil
The powerline sounds to be a good solution, but I would need to do some adaptations, chance the wall socket to get some free space for it.
My apartment is not in a so dense area, 4 apartments per floor, I'm at the 14th of 20 and it's quite far from other buildings.
I was thinking a PCI card would be a good solution?

Thanks!
 
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Well pretty much yes, a PCI card may solve your problem.
You could even get a separate wifi extender, and then get your 2pc in the office room hard wired to it, or even still using those sticks.
Depends on which solution you choose, it would be budget effective.
I am not sure that power line is the best thing to do, since you may also be supplying internet/access to your private network, to the other ppl living in the same building.
For a start, if you have USB cable extender, like one side male other side female, you could try to change your usb wifi position and see if that fixes the signal.
 
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Kitsunaka

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Thanks for the help, I searched more about Powerlines and got one, it's a simple one, TP link 300. But It was more than enough to solve the ping and stability issues that wi-fi was causing, ping dropped and am getting the max speed from my 30Mb connection.
 
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