Running a 2-wire 802.11bg supplied by ATT . Not as fast as it used to be but house is only about 1000 square ft.

Well the same here but good to know what's going on today.. Prior years with the dial-up from 2400bps to what's available to today is better still we all got a long way to go. What I do to here might not work for some but it working. Still WAN downloads speeds among my peers seems more present, than LAN to LAN transfers. LAN to LAN and WLAN to WLAN I've tested that using multi-player setups with the 5 nephews on a mix wired and wireless . I always wanted to know how that works. I had not lag problems so that's a good sign right there.

I also stream media over the network to 7x media network players at 100mbps so roughly 66mbps.

D-Link DL-540 (old router lol) and 64bit WEP with mac filtering. Like another responder, WPA2 didn't work well, but I didn't even bother with WPA.

Here's what I get in my place using G mode only using channel 6 on 3 wireless access points where 2 uses dd-wrt. Testing was on old laptop I use for wireless monitoring.. The dlink with 11 is someone else that I pickup. I also can pickup Rescue (EMS station about 1 mile away) They use channel 3.

The above image shows you how to isolate the radiation from the wireless ANT away from the Ethernet cables for WAN, and two switches connections. I just re-did the above a few hours ago. This is as thick as I can find to cover up the Ethernet cables using 5/8 heater hose used on cars. Without the above looking at 10% reduction with the above 10% increase with the wireless. Now I have to run more test to see how the rest of the wired connections go.. So far so good..

I use a peer to peer network whenever one peer has to go, the other one has to wait his turn.

P2P networks are very risky unless you have total control over all the computers in the network and all systems are adequately protected with appropriate antivirus software and firewalls. Unguarded P2P networks are conduits for viri and other nasties.

Heater hose is not going to shield much RF energy. You should run the cables down behind or in front of the router instead of up between the antennas. You could shield them with metallic braid. As high up as you have that router, you could even turn it upside down and let the antennas hang down and still have good results.

I use a Linksys WRT54G with a WEP key, but I installed a 3rd party firmware on it. Cant remember which on it was though, might have been DD-WRT but that sounds wrong. Anyways, I kept having issues with bit torrents crashing my router if I had to many connections (one particular weekly torrent with 2k+ seeders :P). Something about Linksys routers trying to remember all the IP's you have connected to or something like that. But changed out the firmware, works great.

I have it in a rather bad place for wireless though, its behind my tv in a jumble of cords :P, but i never use the wireless on it, use hardwired for my 2 desktops and laptop. But few times people have had laptops at my house and used wireless, it worked great for them so it works.

I've tested it that way and the way I have it now.. Signal strength % is better the way I have it now. 100% where the router is basement - 75% first main floor - 65% on second floor.
200FT 360 degree radius using wireless laptop showing outside very good, some spots had shown Excellent. That's what the above image. The Rubber above is very thick.



Another way of mounting all of this is to use a block drop so that router is push off the wall. The Drill hole for WAN, LAN 1, 2., 3, 4 ports loop those down in a block drop where the use of Ultra flat Ethernet cable could be use in place of the current default.

Best build a system to use as P2P only that can also have a tight security software on it. Then you'll be all set. That's what I do. Bad to run everything on one system you use for personal and daily stuff.

latest results from indoors on the main floor.. next one outdoors

This is about 100 to 200 feet from the house outside





This is about 250 to 300 feet from the house outside

Im using prolink adsl firewall wifi router and linksys wap54g as a repeater to increase the range, fortunately im not having trouble with it, im using wep 128bit with hex key.

Using a linksys WRT310N gigabit edition, my storage is all downstairs in my rack... but I got tired of plugging in my laptop to get decent throughput.
I use WEP128 encryptoin because I often bring older laptops home for repair that will not support WPA

not sure what i use

If it works and it ain't broke - leave it alone!

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1. DIR-655 wireless Xtreme N Router
2. EZXS88W 100mbps 8-port switch (replacing with 16-port)
3. TEG-S80TXE 1000mbps 8-port switch
4. Cable Modem 43mbps down max.

Remove all 7x Netgear switches FS 100 and GS 1000 just crap. I had the Linksys 8-port from prior usage. I am getting 16-port and connect everything directly into it that is not a Gig. That means all Wireless Access Points 3x, 7x Wired Network Media Players and 1x Wired Print Server comes out to be 11 ports for now for 100mbps side. Also most finish re-wiring the enough house. Gig nodes are completed. So far gone are the downgrade issues, Network Stream Media has issues where FF/RR and power off would loop. That problem is gone. Now everything runs smooth, but a lot of wires.

802.11 G, Linksys WRT54G, 128 bit WEP

Wireless B/G, slow, WEP 128.
Great distance from the router, just a laggy connection.