Man in a van wrote: > It's a > minefield > > > On other forums lots of people seem happy with the Asus models, but yer > pays yer money.............. > > > http://www.cnet.com/topics/networking/best-networking-devices/802-11n/ > > > http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/pc-peripheral/9-best-wireless-router-2015-uk-may-3217482/ > > > I guess an extender is not suitable? I think they might reduce the band > width thingy :)
*Definitely* not an extender, I learned the hard way just this week...my piCore player worked OK very close to the extender, not so well otherwise, lots of dropouts, skips, etc. I did some reading and learned that since the wifi extenders send and receive on the same channel speed is indeed drastically reduced and there are lots of collisions and dropped packets. FWIW I connected a second wifi router via a powerline link and that works great, after some Googling learned that the second router gets a fixed IP and is connected to the first via a LAN port, NOT the internet port, the first router handles DHCP etc.. Anyway was able to set this second zone up using stuff I had on hand and now have reliable Squeezebox FLAC play in the house and the detached garage, LMS sees the players on both routers, ios and Android controller apps see and can control both players, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluto99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103768 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
