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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by Alucard7002 » Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:43 pm

Suggestion time Chris (forgive me if they are obvious)

5Ghz band not 2.4Ghz?

Beamforming turned on?

Dual band functionality turned on?

I have not done a NAS with mine so I have no idea what is involved setting up the router to allow access.
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by thamestyres » Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:43 pm

mine is quite good
http://www.speedtest.net/result/5227478423.png
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:57 pm

This has inspired me to buy a new router, nothing quite so grand/all-singing, all-dancing as the ones linjked to but certainly enough for my needs. I've done it in the hope of a more reliable connection. Time will tell when it lands!

For now (and direct comparison) here's my latest test :

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Post by traineefarmer » Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:10 pm

That's not too bad for the boondocks, Dave. I wonder what kind of speeds Iceman and Maverick enjoy on the other side of the 12ft fence near your house?
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:24 pm

Mach 3 with their pants on fire! :wink: :lol:

Apologies to Kelly McGillis and Top Gun for the blatant plagiarisation! NOT!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I know they have their own system over there so your guess is as good as mine but i would say they probably make Dusans system look slow. That said, that might be shared by all of them though..........
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by CHR15E » Wed Apr 06, 2016 3:15 pm

Alucard7002 wrote:Suggestion time Chris (forgive me if they are obvious)

1 - 5Ghz band not 2.4Ghz?

2 - Beamforming turned on?

3- Dual band functionality turned on?

4 - I have not done a NAS with mine so I have no idea what is involved setting up the router to allow access.
1 - Yes. :)

2 - No idea, can't see it mentioned anywhere in the UI?

3 - Yes. :)

4 - Easy job to just plug in the drive, the pain is sorting out the tangle of wires behind the TV. :roll: :lol:
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by CHR15E » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:25 pm

Been playing more, think I need to relocate it as I've put where I have the main Virgin router and the WIFI signal outside is very poor.

I do like the app setup though, nice and easy to use and see what's what.

Hard drive is working fine across all my TVs as well.

Just need to see if I can improve the signal. Failing that I may go back to how I had things setup and use this for the Chromecast audios I use so they can all be on the same network.
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Post by Alucard7002 » Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:01 pm

Beamforming should be on by default but can be switched off if you tick the box for backwards compatibility with older network devices.

Good to know NAS is easy :-)

Hmm, how many other WiFi signals are there? Channel interference?

Otherwise access points are the only way forwards as you've mentioned. :-)
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by scoobyh123 » Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:51 pm

Alucard7002 wrote:Beamforming should be on by default :-)
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Can one of you explain the 2016 version of beamforming please? :shock: :? :roll:
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by CHR15E » Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:36 am

Alucard7002 wrote:Beamforming should be on by default but can be switched off if you tick the box for backwards compatibility with older network devices.

Good to know NAS is easy :-)

Hmm, how many other WiFi signals are there? Channel interference?

Otherwise access points are the only way forwards as you've mentioned. :-)
I think after a fair bit of head scratching I've come up with an explanation. :lol:

I set the 5G to AC only and neither my phone(Nexus 4) or tablet(Nexus 7 2013) can see the connection. So I then checked the specs of both and they don't support it. :roll:

My other halfs Galaxy S6 does though so I'll try that later for completeness.

So at the minute I'm not sure what to do. I am looking to swap my phone though not the tablets anytime soon. We have 3 all the same and I'm not forking out for them. :lol:

So for the time being at least I'll go back to the setup as it was and run this router for music across the house/yards.


Dave, here's some proper info on it.

http://www.tp-link.com/resources/docume ... orming.pdf
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by scoobyh123 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:55 am

Thanks Chris - new name for an old (ish) concept - that's how Trackers work but with a slight jiggling of the process to enable direction finding instead of device finding.

All makes sense now, not sure if the one i'm getting has beamforming but that wasn't a primary consideration when i bought it.
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Re: Don't you just love progress?

Post by scoobyh123 » Sun Apr 10, 2016 10:51 pm

My new router landed today and i wasted the rest of the day trying to get it set up! :evil: :evil: :evil:

What a waste of time that was! Amazon are collecting it tomorrow....................

.....................it turns out that......................

................................................................... Sky have embedded the username and password for broadband access within the firmware of their router and it uses some kind of rolling-code algorithm to encrypt it each time it connects to the net and the username and password can only be deciphered by downloading some packet-tracing software from a site that Firefox rejected as having dangerous downloads, insecure sonnections and umpteen other security problems!

Bottom line i wasn't comfortable compromising my PC with the dodgy software so after numerous calls to Sky and TP-Link i'm no further forward and stuck with the el-cheapo, unreliable router that Sky provide and want £70 to replace!

Seriously thinking about changing my ISP as a result. I probably won't but thinking about it............... :evil:
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