my hardline stops working...

[T2urtle]

I have a vonage linksys router... Linksys WRTP54G. I HAVE to use it because obviously it controls the phone in our house. That is placed in the rear of the house. I have a WRT54G that i flashed with the DD-WRT software. I ran a 50 feet CAT5 cable from the rear of the house towards the middle of the house. The connection was made by using slot 1,2,3 or 4 of the vonage router and pluging it into the internet slot of the WRT router.

I have to do this because my computer in the basement gets like 1-11Mbps thru the vonage and then it gets 36-54Mbps thru the DD-WRT flashed. The only option i did with the DDWRT was to increase emit power to 200.

Every 2-4 days i notice that the vonage router drops the connection to the DDWRT one. So i have to do a power cycle and its back. That wasn't a big problem with me. Then recently now it makes me do it 3 times a day. The only change i did was putting on a WPA security. I was running it open for testing since i left settings at stock.


Is there settings i can run on the vonage router to make it not drop my DDWRT? Or is there an access point i can use to to extend my range? I'm a complete noob when it comes with networking and its terms. I did the DDWRT flash just find and i know how to enable the WEP/WPA passcodes thats about it.

 

[Emulex]

dd-wrt should have:
1. an ip out of the dhcp range of the first router (static)
2. dhcp server disabled (1st router is handling this)
3. bridge WAN port into VLAN port (gives you all ports)
4. rename SSID to something else.
5. upnp disabled

this will make it an access point (if my instructions suck google them). giving you a 5 port switch (one going to the vonage) and wifi access.

be smart and put the AP on separate channel.

i have 3 running this way on channel 1,6, and 11.

lower the power back down to 80 ish and get bigger omni's or directionals.

remember to shoot up or down you need to aim those antennas if you are multi-floor i'd play around with them.

you might ask why i have 4 routers and 3 routers (as AP) well thats simple the hard line gives max bandwidth on all channels to my wifi security cams or laptops.


open mesh is another method but since you have a hard line - go for it.

what i do is place the AP's strategically.

basement -> WRT600N goes to switch and one port upstairs.

upstairs WRT54GS v.2 AP mode goes to AV center with switch and then upstairs

upstairs master (front) goes to wrt54gs v.2 AP to kids room (all 5 ports in use)

upstairs guest (back) goes to wrt54gs v.2 AP where the lan segment ends.

i run gigabit switch (blitzz ebay or rosewill newegg) cheapies to longhaul gigabit from the basement to the main level but really we don't use upstairs that much so 100megabit is fine.

the NAS and webcamXP server sustains 70 megabit from the surveillance cams (q6600), if media center starts pulling from the hdhomerun you can add another 70megabit (per 1080i stream in/out). Plus NAS/utorrent duty.

I'm finding the cheapie rosewill gigabit card is having some issues at high packet rate (goes fast with one or two streams but starts to choke when theres 15 webcams and a tv show and nas going).

you might ask why i have the wrt600n (have two one as a hotspare) not doing wifi. it does, just 5ghz only. it sucks for some reason at 2.4ghz. you can be 10 feet away from it and it will drop connections after a period of 1-12 hours but only with certain manufacturers wifi (like broadcom lol). the imac,dell osx, 8730w's are all cool but broadcom and via go into this spiral downgrade of speed to 1mbps then poof gone off the air. could be a bad brainslayer.

 

[JackMDS]

Increasing the the Wireless output to 200 probably generate stronger signal with "Bad" Signal to noise ratio.

http://www.ezlan.net/wbars.html

Most of the WRT54G "sweet spot" is at about 60-70mW.

If it dos not work with 70mW setting you need more Wireless hardware to maintain the distance corrcetly.

 

[T2urtle]

Emulex, isn't that what i'm doing now. well a version of it.

I'm not the best of terms and methods. But my DDWRT right now is used as a access point isn't it?

I was told i could connect the DDWRT and the vonage thru wifi, I think that is a called a bridge. Because originally i wanted to do that, looks better without cables. But since i couldnt. Running a hardline to it works just as fine. I'm just wondering why my vonage is dropping my connection to the internet going to my DDWRT or is it my DDWRT dropping my connection. Is there any settings for me to put on the VONAGE router to make it stop dropping it.

I'm going to lower the voltage back down on my DDWRT and switch up the channels on it.