dual band adapter

[mxnerd]

The reason I wanted to buy Intel is that in the past I don't have good experience with other brands, especially Ralink (USB or PCI), they all have poor signal inside the 2-story house.

I don't know if it's the router itself (ASUS 500gp v1 running DD-WRT) or the adapters that I have, or it's because the router is at a poor spot (probably is, right now it's on top of 2nd floor's corner closet besides hallway, it's where DSL comes in).

What I'm thinking is ditch the DD-WRT router altogether and assemble a HTPC computer then put it in 1st floor, and either run a router Endian/pfSense VM, or just use the free Connectify Wi-Fi AP on this HTPC. I don't really need Wi-Fi on 2nd floor. By doing this, I do need to run new wire from 2nd floor to 1st.

DD-WRT on ASUS is just not reliable, always died on me 2 - 3 times a year for no reason and I had to re-flash it to rescue it back. And yes, I tried Tomato USB and it's not reliable either.

 

[mosco]

There are a couple cavats that many miss. Dual band / Dual Radio = simulataneous transmission of 2.4 and 5GHz bands.

Dual Band only can choose one or the the other to use.

Right, but the poster was asking if it was possible to connect a single machine to router using both bands at the same time to increase throughput, which is different than what you are talking about.

 

[wirednuts]

DD-WRT on ASUS is just not reliable, always died on me 2 - 3 times a year for no reason and I had to re-flash it to rescue it back. And yes, I tried Tomato USB and it's not reliable either.

i think somebody has a defective router.

i used to used tomato, ran for years without a reboot.... then ddwrt implemented the monthly usage monitoring so i switched. ddwrt is good stuff and i would never build a computer just to be a router again.