- Oct 21, 2013
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I am at a crossroads where I think I need to upgrade to a new wireless access point in my home. The last few days, my wifi devices have been super slow. With a FIOS 75/35 connection, I ran speedtests on my iOS devices and was getting 10/10 at best. On my laptop wireless, about 25/10. On gigabit Ethernet I am getting the full 80/35.
I downloaded and have been testing inSSIDer around my home. With several homes within close proximity to me, I have about 10-12 different WiFi's I can see. All of them are using the typical 1, 6 and 11 channels.
I ran testing on each channel and with overlapping, co-channel and just plain slow connectivity, I am almost certain I am running into quite a bit of interference. I do run 5 DLink DCS-932L wireless cameras throughout my home, but that couldn't be the issue. I believe my issue is the neighbors networks. Am I right?
Currently I am using FIOS's latest router (MI424WR-GEN3I) for all connectivity. Because I need this router for the STB guides on my receivers, I am stuck using this. However, I would like to turn WIFI off on that router and get a wireless access point and run it somewhere central to my home, probably my home office.
What recommendations do you guys have for wireless access points? Should I go dual band wireless N?
I downloaded and have been testing inSSIDer around my home. With several homes within close proximity to me, I have about 10-12 different WiFi's I can see. All of them are using the typical 1, 6 and 11 channels.
I ran testing on each channel and with overlapping, co-channel and just plain slow connectivity, I am almost certain I am running into quite a bit of interference. I do run 5 DLink DCS-932L wireless cameras throughout my home, but that couldn't be the issue. I believe my issue is the neighbors networks. Am I right?
Currently I am using FIOS's latest router (MI424WR-GEN3I) for all connectivity. Because I need this router for the STB guides on my receivers, I am stuck using this. However, I would like to turn WIFI off on that router and get a wireless access point and run it somewhere central to my home, probably my home office.
What recommendations do you guys have for wireless access points? Should I go dual band wireless N?