Well funny you brought this up. During a typical install in the boonies (No cable, No DSL, Propane gas, well water, etc), we ran into a wireless router issue. The customer switched from another wireless provider to our service stating that because their service didn't cover the entire house, they were changing. I asked if the Dlink router was theirs or WISP's? Said it was theirs....So I explained to him that the radio link to our site was just like the competitors (5GHz) and only brought Internet to the WAN port of router. It had nothing to do with Wi-Fi performance. So I fired up WiFi Explorer on phone and surveyed inside and outside. Lowest signal was in the mid 80s. I asked him if they lost connections and he said no..just slow in areas away from router. I asked if they had another wireless router by chance and they did!! We ended up moving router from living room to garage area by close recent addition area with three rooms, ran a cable (40 ft.) from LAN port of Dlink to WAN port of Cisco Linksys and placed it near kitchen area. voila...100% coverage all over the house for iPhones, iPads, ASUS tablets,laptops, Sony Playstation, TV;s and one PC. We did bill him for extra cabling and work but not enough I think for what I did.
This is where something like an NCR WaveLAN would work well but of course with more bandwidth. If someone made a 902-928MHz LAN or USB card it would solve some issues in places where obstacles block 2.4 and 5GHz PS: Don't like Nirvana one....Reminds me of suck ass music.... Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > Wireless router issues seem to be increasingly the thing that we get > judged by. I am considering starting a new service, either by subscription > or a one time deal. Kinda like the weCare program I did in a former life. > > But this would be more focused on wireless. I am thinking a hit squad > would come to the house, turn off all sources of RF and use a high quality > spectrum analyzer to see that the general conditions of the site are. Fire > up the baby monitors, security systems and microwave ovens and see what > changes. > > Recommend frequencies. > > Then look at the devices the customer uses. Discover the wifi > capabilities used. > Look at the wireless routers at the site, see if the routers can feed the > devices. > > Recommend new routers if needed. Analyze router placement(s) in the > house. Move the routers to more of an optimum place. Set them for proper > modes and frequencies. > > What else could we be doing? I would like to offer this as a platinum > geek squad service (but with a much better name). Something that could > have the mission impossible theme music playing in the background. > > Antenna Team 7 > Wifi Impossible > Radio Mercenaries > Interference Eliminators > Signal Purity Squad > Network Nirvana.... kinda like that one. > Network Nirvana (tm all rights reserved) > > >
