We got our hands on an Engenius Dual Band AP and put it to the range test! Our WiFi is TERRIBLE at the office so we wanted to see if we could get some decent coverage even with all the interference around here.
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Price: $152.26
350$ for an access point!
I would get 3 UniFi UAP and get a better coverage at this price.
btw, I’m running a MikroTik Routerboard RB2011UiAS-RM with one UniFi UAP-LR and it’s rock solid.
would this help with an nvidea shield?
yea have crappy router from ISP just went and got a good asus router and use that as wifi and disabled wifi on the ISP one . so much better internet its much more stable. 🙂
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perfect to fry brains to much radiation
Used to have a crappy modem/router, did a manual (official) update un-locking the settings my isp hid from me and adjusted them to where i found were the safest, i went from 2.4ghz and a coverage of around 50-60m to 5ghz 70-80m by just toying around with the settings
Wifi extender
What blows my mind is people are actually paying their isp’s 10 extra dollars a month for ‘wifi’ like its a feature that has to be turned on. Cracks me up.
Or just use the internet from the gsm provider, what’s the point to have smartphone without internet ?
350$ ??? No thanks.
i used 2 routers one set in a repeater mode but recently i got new wifi antenna and no longer need it
I just installed a router functioning as accesspoint on every floor of the house.
he sounds drunk
Back to days when *Linksys WRT54G* was king,
1) Change the firmware to DD-WRT,
2) Swap the antenna to a longer antenna
3) Mod the router’s casing to mount a fan, blowing directly into the router’s PVC
4) Change the TX signal to 251mW.
5) Enjoy the the distance,
The maximum range I got was about 200++ meters away from my apartment 6th floor. it lasted for 3 years.
here in belgium, ISP routers are terrible. i put mine on bridge mode, connected to my personnal router ( FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7490 ), and some devolo to improve range… i know really expensive (cost me 550 USD here), but no way to have wifi everywhere in my house without devolo, and a good router is a need.
I use 2 different access points for perfect coverage around my house. 1 at each end of the house.
We bought a real router and didnt use the crappy isp one!
Dont close doors^^
3 routers><
I paid the extra amount with Shaw and they said they would give me “wifi premium”. He convinced me when he mentioned something about OVER 9000… but i cant remember exactly?
We scrapped the idea of wifi when our virgin hub came over with fibre optic and we decided that the POE concept was perfect… so we went with 3 adaptors from maplins and we’ve had faster internet than ever before
Got a enterprise access point from a company closing down
Reconfigured an old router as an access point until I get a wall mount access point. Asus is looking good. But ac kind looks good
I simply connect via Ethernet then cover my wireless antennae in lead to make sure no one is MAKING MY GOD DMAN GAMES LAG FUCKING NOOB LAG! GET YOUR OWN INTERNET MOM! GET OF FACEBOOK MAKE ME SO NMAD WHY YOU NED LIKE 5 YOUTIBE VIDEO LOAD OAT ONCE TIME!
i put bologna on mine to boost its signal
Prefer ubiquiti unifi!!!!
i built my own router . took an old cisco mcs 7800 server and installed Pfsense and put all AP’s 5 , in AP mode and letting my server router do all the work . and it KICKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no i get good wifi i got the asus ac68u
We had a guy install this huge ass metal rod on the back of our house, it was connected to our modem. It gave wifi coverage to the entire neighborhood, my brothers and I use to call it the cancer stick.
can I just use any router instead of the one my isp gave me ?
you know what makes me wonder…? how much WiFi is *too* much WiFi? as in how much until it becomes unhealthy to be around for long periods of time?
I got myself a powerline adapter so I can have all the internets!
I transferred my TPlink Wifi USB dongle as Wifi router, it works perfectly for my phone.
I added a second old router and now I have full signal in every place of my house
Added a power line adapter to the other side of the house. Added a second router and use it as a bridge
I like the idea of the wall Ethernet but they can be a bit pricey
I solved it by using my neighbors wifi
I have terribly spotty wifi coverage in my house thanks to my ISP, Comcast. I bought a 50 foot long Ethernet cable for my gaming PC and now I get 10 times faster download speeds… My wifi is still slow and I lose connection on my phone a lot 🙁
range? meter or kilometer…
I was getting a bad connection to i stabled it to the floor in the attic. Worked like a charm.
I have a good router. The problem is the walls in my house are really thick and stone. The walls just stop any wireless connection completely. Any way i could combat this or a way to get around it? Thanks
haha…we have a bottom-of-the-line Dlink router, which was bought to guarantee no wifi access in my bedroom, and limit device use to the family room 😛 so, i ran two cords of cable though the house (pulling up floor boards, ceiling tiles, and insulation, and then replacing it after the cables) down to my bedroom, soldered them inside the router, and onto its antenna at my end. 😛 its still terrible, but now i have connection XD i ran it past my parents under the guise of a “data transfer link” based on the wiring from the router. worked like a charm 🙂
Like you said I have a crappy ISP provided router. I just linked another router to my crappy router using a 50 foot ethernet cable, and use that as my access point. Works much better now.