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Hi,

I have recently set up a BT Home Hub in my home due to getting a BT Vision Box otherwise i wouldn't of bothered.

Basically what is happening is now that i have set that up i have put it at exactly the same place as my old router. The wi-fi/wireless within it isn't as good, the signal isn't as strong now even though bt claim it to be the strongest wireless device out of all ISP's.

I currently use Kubuntu on my laptop and also have a windows installed partition. When i had my old addon gwar 3000 router i got 54mits everytime when i connected. Now on this home hub i can only seem to get 50% signal strength. This being the case i decided to log into my router, under wireless it says that the connection 18mbit which is ridiculous.

So now my internet goes much slower, 18x 3 = 54 so i am 2/3 down on the speed that i should be getting with my internet connection.

I then did a speed test and my upload has always been about 300kbs, but my download always used to hover between 6.5mbit and 8.5mbit, the speed test said it was 6.5mbit which shouldn't be a problem.

So why do you think my wireless is so poor? Do i need to upgrade firmware because the home hub has a fault in it? Have Bt just suddenly capped home hub wireless connections?

I cannot think what it is, it says my wireless is 54mbit but yet when i log into my home hub through the browser it shows the wireless within the hub only working at 18mbit. This i never got with my old router, however i cannot change back due to me now using a bt vision box as well.

thanks, hope somebody can help me out a bit who know's what the problem may be.
 
sounds like your home hub is only working at B specs check to wireless setting you might be able to change to to G specs and get the usual link speed back
 
Why not use wires .... Wireless is fine for a Quick zapp on a hot spot ..... But thats it

I't can't be too much trouble to push a plug in the side ?
 
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that depends on how far the router is away.
 
What timeless said sounds a good bet, usually wireless routers operate in B/G mixed mode by default, switching it to G only should up the power on the antenna and produce a better signal.

Also, it might be worth changing the wireless channel, otherwise you try positioning the router differently to get a better signal.

Other than that you could search for an external antenna port on the home hub and install a third-party high-gain antenna, but this all depends on the capacity of the home hub itself.
 
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Hi,

thanks for the info. Yes my router was indeed on b/g by default. Yesterday i noticed it going anything from18mbits to 54mbits in the space of a few minutes, instead of a steady 54mbit at all times.

I changed the channel on my router to channel 11 last night, this i did because routers use wireless channels 5 or 6 spaces between one another. So i changed it from 6 to 11 because my old router ran on this channel. I have now chaned the B/G mode to just G mode, i will now see how it goes. the signal strength on my laptop went up to 4 bars almost straight after the change, although it then dropped back down to 2.

Thanks
 
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Ok, i have recently changed it from b/g to the g standard. I now remember learning that the B is the old standard and G is current standard. I guess i just didn't want to mess about with settings incase i messed something up.

Anyways now all is changed and my connection is much better, i get 54mbit connection almost everytime and my wireless is going a lot quicker.

Thanks for the help it seems to of done the trick. My old router must of been G mode only or G by default.

:-)
 
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usually channel 11 is selected by default on most modems lve used, its worth using a random channel since most users wont change from the default.. so if there are many routers in the area using wireless its a possible point for interference! l currently use either channel 4 or 6, then again l have N wireless and set to the 240mbps stream altho l dont get it in full prolly because of the adapter at most l get 135mbps
 
Ok i have given it a few days and still not much better, here is what i have now done.

I changed channel selection to automatic, i then changed the standard to 802.11g standard and then finally i unticked the "allow multicast" checkbox.

Now what is actually happening is, when i connect to the home hub my connection is full strength signal, so all is working fine. Then suddenly after a minute or 2 my signal strength get's slashed in half and the strength is 2 bars instead of 4 via a usb dongle on my laptop. this is very strange as it shouldn't go down to half strength from full.

So i thought ok it may be the channel, so i put it back on channel 11, it improved a bit but still wasn't right.

What i have noticed is the light on the dongle sometimes stops for a second or 2 every so often now, then starts again as though something is cutting the signal out for a second or 2. this seems to happen every so many minutes.

With my old router my addon GWAR 3000 i never got this, once i was connected it remained connected all the time, no sudden half signal slashing going on and it never used to cut connection for a second or 2 every few minutes. The actual connection doesn't actually cut out, it just kind of pauses.

I also have a wireless Ethernet bridge which i use on another machine to connect to the internet. Again on the bridge the lights flicker when a connection is in progress, sometimes just like on the usb dongle, the lights freeze for a second or 2, then they kick back into life. I wonder if the home hub is cutting the signal out some how.

Any idea's to how i can get around this? I am so tempted to go back to my old router but as mentioned in a previous post, i cannot now. Any idea what is cutting my signal in half suddenly or what is cutting it/making it freeze for a few seconds out every few minutes?
 
I am having similar problems - although it only affects my mac, not my windows machine? Any advice (not including ditch the mac!)
 
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