Advice on new wireless router

[G4L4XY]

Recently moved in with a friend and he made the dumb decision to go with Vodafone for internets. We're in St Andrews/Beerescourt whatever and the mobile coverage is pretty pathetic at best. Also even though the wireless signal is 100% I'm having trouble with a game I play on my phone. Mafia City/Wild City. My pc is hooked up via cable so thats fine. My mate plays that Dota shit wirelessly on his laptop and doesn't seem to have any problems.
I was looking at getting a better router but need some advice on which one to get.
Before this vodafone rubbish I was using a standard Telecom router back in Cambridge and that was fine. Mobile coverage there was better too. I'm not sure if it's just interference in his house or the router or both but it's pissing me off.

[Akzle]

first world problems. Go outside.



Netgear or linksys. Spend about 600$.
Then youll realise its your gay ass phone thats the problem.

[R650R]

Screw Wifi, buy a LAN cable and kick or drill some holes in the wall.
I went LAN few years ago and will never go wifi again except for emergencies. We have a business next door plus neighbours beside and across the street with wifi routers and theres just too much noise crowding the bandwidth.
So much that my laptop would lose its freaking connection 10m away from router. Before the neighbours went wifi it was fine though.
Hardwired LAN the only way, cables are cheap.

BTW that vodaphone cellphone3g/4g is the biggest con ever. Its almost ok at offpeak times then its just a cruel form of slow torture as your unsure if its even still downloading anything

[Tazz]

Then youll realise its your gay ass phone thats the problem.

most likely this if your mates laptop is working fine in the same room man. Might be something to do with what it's broadcasting at, I don't know much about it all but I know my wireless eftpos machine has to be set to 802.11a or b? (or some shit like that) and to have the security settings just so (no idea what they are off the top of my head either, but it has to be a specific one, not multi optional) otherwise it won't connect. Took the beginnings of a bald patch to figure that.

Some houses/apartments layouts are a bit rubbish for wireless signals (I live in a 100+ year old house with only one phone jack, in a bloody cupboard), but as you mentioned others use the wireless network fine so it rules that out.

I'd start by Googling your phone model and the router make and see if some stuff pops up (might be a common occurrence).

Set up correctly wireless will work as flawlessly as wired.

[Akzle]

Set up correctly wireless will work as flawlessly as wired.

actually. Not.

[Tazz]

actually. Not.

My laptop has been hooked up for 4 years to the same network I haven't tinkered with sweet as, torrents, games, occasionally actual work :shrug:

[Gremlin]

Set up correctly wireless will work as flawlessly as wired.

Uh... no. Neither does it come close to having the same throughput.

Crosstalk amongst networks, networks on the same channel, some devices being more powerful than others. You can actually have your wireless unit transmitting with too much power amongst other things. Occasionally the accesspoint will require rebooting as well (and they're good quality units). The only time I reboot a network switch is when it's on it's way out...

Wireless is convenient for many, becoming more necessary for an increasing number of devices with no ethernet port (including laptops) but no, I'd take cable every single time if possible.

Advice for a router? I presume it's modem/router not a pure router. We use Draytek currently as go-to for modem/routers. Several available. The DV2710NE has 4 ports and wireless.

[Tazz]

Uh... no. Neither does it come close to having the same throughput.

I'm not saying it is better, I didn't say it was better. I said it will/can work flawlessly. The pros and cons or limitations of wireless are a whole other ballgame.

In my experience it can (and has) worked flawlessly (for 4 years(the longest I've been in one spot)).
Unless you can time travel and tamper with my network , that is my personal experience.

[G4L4XY]

Uh... no. Neither does it come close to having the same throughput.

Crosstalk amongst networks, networks on the same channel, some devices being more powerful than others. You can actually have your wireless unit transmitting with too much power amongst other things. Occasionally the accesspoint will require rebooting as well (and they're good quality units). The only time I reboot a network switch is when it's on it's way out...

Wireless is convenient for many, becoming more necessary for an increasing number of devices with no ethernet port (including laptops) but no, I'd take cable every single time if possible.

Advice for a router? I presume it's modem/router not a pure router. We use Draytek currently as go-to for modem/routers. Several available. The DV2710NE has 4 ports and wireless.

Thanks for providing some advice

[willytheekid]

Uh... no. Neither does it come close to having the same throughput.

Crosstalk amongst networks, networks on the same channel, some devices being more powerful than others. You can actually have your wireless unit transmitting with too much power amongst other things. Occasionally the accesspoint will require rebooting as well (and they're good quality units). The only time I reboot a network switch is when it's on it's way out...

Wireless is convenient for many, becoming more necessary for an increasing number of devices with no ethernet port (including laptops) but no, I'd take cable every single time if possible.

Advice for a router? I presume it's modem/router not a pure router. We use Draytek currently as go-to for modem/routers. Several available. The DV2710NE has 4 ports and wireless.

This +1

"convenience"...is wifi's primary function