I posted on these issues before, but I'll repeat it here: - signal strength is not as important as the signal-to-noise-ratio!!! - n-routers are better, even if you only have g-clients. they have mimo technology for further range which helps g-clients too and a faster cpu which is the biggest bottleneck in bitrate issues combined with encryption. - disable any b-client support (so g-only or g-n-only). Support for b will seriously limit performance. Experiment with short vs long pre-amble settings too, these settings are all related and differ between routers. - more signal strength is best done with a better antenna instead of more power - reducing noise is even better than increasing signal strength. The best way to reduce noise is by using directional antenna's. The cheapest one is printing a pattern (search google) on your printer, cutting it out and covering it with aluminium-foil and sticking it on the antenna's. Directional hi-gain antenna's are even better and cost little.
Example: using a 180 degree antenna on the router gives you a quick 3 dB increase on signal strength (that's doubling it!) plus a 3 dB reduction on noise in the routers receiver (it only receives noise from 180 deg instead of 360 !!). Next logical step would be directional antenna at the SB but I think only the SB2 can do that without modification. But you can decrease the angle further, like to 90 or 60 degrees with more gain and more noise-reduction. I stand by my choice for good wifi router: Dlink DGL-4500. cheers, Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49003 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
