The Main Router Discussion Topic
Non-techies, please bear with me on this. I'm starting a discussion about router technology here which may quickly get hard to follow in places. We have a lot of Techies on these forums, and their kno...
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I have HN1100 with an Readi Net WRT 300 N DD it was part of the deal for the install so I don't know much about it. It seems to be working fine I get 12 to 20 Downloads constantly depending on time of day. I gave my Shop CP to my Brother so I had to build another so I put together an old Dell 2300 1.7 XP home with only 64 mb SDRAM. I figured it would run pretty slow but got surprised it cooked along pretty good and streams audio very well. (The basic use for my shop PC is a radio) It is connected to my router with a 70 foot Cat5 cable. I don't know much about this thing but seem great to me.
Before I got the router I used a Cat5 Cross cable connected to my main PC and don't see any difference in connection speed. My new main PC uses wireless and shows only 70 to 85 percent signal. I am thinking after reading this of making a Cat5 cable and hooking it direct to see if it makes a difference. The only thing is I do believe in, "if it isn't broke don't fix it".
Before I got the router I used a Cat5 Cross cable connected to my main PC and don't see any difference in connection speed. My new main PC uses wireless and shows only 70 to 85 percent signal. I am thinking after reading this of making a Cat5 cable and hooking it direct to see if it makes a difference. The only thing is I do believe in, "if it isn't broke don't fix it".
