Wifi routers dropping [was Re: Who's the new WRT on the block?]

[Steve Alligood]

Could be a lot of things.

15 devices on an inexpensive wifi router *should* work, but if they are pulling a lot of data and you have interference from random noisy things (or even neighbors - I have 18x 802.11G hotspots that show up at my house, and I am not in apartments, etc (aka, not in high density housing).  Only about 7 houses within range), it may very well cause issues.

I was having some massive channel fights with my neighbors until I upgraded to N.  Less of them have that, plus it is a smaller transmit area and broader frequency range, so less conflicts.

Your mileage may vary.

-Steve

On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Robert Merrill wrote:

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> On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:12 PM, AJ ONeal <coolaj86 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Since the last time I bought a WRT54G-TM 
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> Hijacking thread:
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> This reminds me. I have a netgear wifi router that's been pretty good to me. I've had linksys routers, etc with similar issues. 
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> Every week or so, the router goes offline. No wifi client can connect, though ethernet still runs. At least the green blinky lights tell me things are happening...
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> Unplug/replug resets everything and all is well at Hogwarts once again until the next time. 
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> I have likely 10 devices connecting via wifi regularly, spiking to 15 perhaps. WPA2 encryption with a strong passphrase, and on the other side of the router, fiber uplink. 
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> Could I be jamming the box with too much data flow? I have Netflix on two TVs, and a dvr connected for streaming (sling box) and iPad movies, etc. plus computers with kids attached to them = high bandwidth. 
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> Any thoughts??
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