Help me pick out a wireless router....

[Ffran]

hey Bell, their are some tricks to boost antena signals. depending on the antena. I'd suggest you check it out of youtube.

I used to use a metal bowl to boost the celular connection it would do a world of a differance. it works like a satellite dish.

so you could just take a metal bowl and place it behind your router facing the direction you lack connectivity.

or strip the antenna of your router, twist a coper wires around it and make it extent as far as you want. you could make it go around the house even =P make sure you have you home wifi signal even at the corner store lol

[Ffran]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5TBlLwOIE

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oclmr8P6YA

[Ffran]

new router:

from my PC (wired):

Download: 24.60 mb/s
Upload: .98 mb/s
Ping: 15ms

from my droid (wireless):

Download: 21.50 mb/s
Upload: 1.64 mb/s
Ping: 22ms

Little speed increase on PC Download and Droid upload, as expected... lets see how long it stays connected!

wholy shit 24mbs!

[Dotmatrics]

Glad you got that sorted out. Was going to recommend the NetGear also. For the money, it is a decent piece. I had to go a little more fancy, I have two houses across the street from one another, and I don't / won't pay to have internet at both. I purchased a Ruckus, though expensive (about $430), I can get wifi almost ¼ mile from the houses. I have another property that is 3 blocks away and can get signal there as well. Doubly impressive is it will also boost my LTE connection on my phone with the right setup, and I don't have to share the band with any other smart phones... The ROI is just 3 short months with the way BrightHouse charges for cable and internet.

[Cremate]

What are you using to test your download and upload speed bell?

[Bellarionna]

Speedtest.net and they have an app

[Dotmatrics]

Do a speedtest with testmy.net - it is text based. It also is stationary, not selecting fastest node server connections which skew the results.