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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	No wonder my wireless is slow 19. Nov 2009 at 19:31 I can currently see 14 wireless networks
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: No wonder my wireless is slow Reply #1 - 19. Nov 2009 at 19:32 Thats a lie, now 17
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Debs. Omega Lord Offline A denizen of The Wirral peninsula Posts: 7386 Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 CDX Estate (1999)	Re: No wonder my wireless is slow Reply #2 - 19. Nov 2009 at 19:33 TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 19:32: Thats a lie, now 17 It`s good to share!
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cem Omega King Offline Posts: 13920 Ankara/Turkey Gender: Drives: 97 2.5 V6 Manual CD- Clio Sport	Re: No wonder my wireless is slow Reply #3 - 19. Nov 2009 at 19:35 hack them
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cem Omega King Offline Posts: 13920 Ankara/Turkey Gender: Drives: 97 2.5 V6 Manual CD- Clio Sport	Re: No wonder my wireless is slow Reply #4 - 19. Nov 2009 at 19:37 or simply turn back to ice age and use cables like me
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: No wonder my wireless is slow Reply #5 - 19. Nov 2009 at 19:45 cem wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 19:35: hack them Don't need to - 2 are unencrypted. Most of others are BT Homehubs (free router supplied with UK's biggest telco), which default to WEP.
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KillerWatt Ex Member	Re: No wonder my wireless is slow Reply #6 - 19. Nov 2009 at 20:09 TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 19:31: I can currently see 14 wireless networks Crank the wireless output power up (125mW works fine for me)....doesn't matter how many AP's are running in the vicinity when you start transmitting at 4x the power level anybody else is likely to have
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Re: No wonder my wireless is slow
Reply #7 - 19. Nov 2009 at 20:53

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TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 19:31:

I can currently see 14 wireless networks Angry

Crank the wireless output power up (125mW works fine for me)....doesn't matter how many AP's are running in the vicinity when you start transmitting at 4x the power level anybody else is likely to have Wink

No setting on my AP that I can find - use cheapo Linksys one.

Bumping power up won't necessarily help though

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Re: No wonder my wireless is slow
Reply #8 - 19. Nov 2009 at 21:02

TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 20:53:

No setting on my AP that I can find - use cheapo Linksys one.

Flash it with DD-WRT, that'll turn your £30 Linksys back in to a £300+ Cisco Wink

TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 20:53:

Bumping power up won't necessarily help though

Even when taking in to account the variables involved in radio transmission, transmitting at over 4x the legal power output permitted in the UK will wipe out just about anything in the limited vicinity that is wireless.

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Re: No wonder my wireless is slow
Reply #9 - 19. Nov 2009 at 21:08

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TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 20:53:

No setting on my AP that I can find - use cheapo Linksys one.

Flash it with DD-WRT, that'll turn your £30 Linksys back in to a £300+ Cisco Wink

TheBoy wrote on 19. Nov 2009 at 20:53:

Bumping power up won't necessarily help though

Even when taking in to account the variables involved in radio transmission, transmitting at over 4x the legal power output permitted in the UK will wipe out just about anything in the limited vicinity that is wireless.

Re WRT - mine is a WAP54G (rather than the crappy all-in-one routers that linksys used to do), wasn't aware anyone had done a firmware for that. Additionally, it won't get close to turning it into a proper Cisco Aironet device.

Transmitting at high power is only part of the answer - the client devices don't have such settings. Also, other APs and other wifi networks will be busy constantly retrying, causing further interference. Power boosting is not really the answer - increasing efficiency of transmitting/receiving is one solution, but my AP cannot take external antenna

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