VKOM WNL108 MWEB Wireless Router speed problem

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Budza

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Got one of these from MWEB.

I can't get it to go faster than 54Mbps. I've got a few devices:

2x wireless N capable laptops
2x wireless N capable smartphones
1x wireless G Desktop (or whatever 54Mbps is).

Is there some setting in the router to enable N?

Does my Desktop on G slow down the rest?

Anyone got suggestions specific to this router or otherwise any generic things I can try?
 
hmm i just signed contract also for this router, will let you know when i get, hopefully this week.
 
If you're using WEP for the wireless security, then you won't be able to go any faster than 54Mbps, even on wireless N.
You'll need to use WPA2 to get higher speeds than that.

Secondly, some WiFi AP's might not give you faster than 54Mbps speeds when clients connect that do not support 802.11n.
So setting the WiFi AP to 802.11n clients only might fix that.
 
It's not a dual band router so likely if a 802.11g device connects it will force the rest to the same. If you set the router to 802.11n manually then the 802.11g device's won't connect.
It's a good thing I got a dual band router so my PS3 can connect on 11g and my newer device's on 11n simultaneously.
 
reactor_sa said:
It's not a dual band router so likely if a 802.11g device connects it will force the rest to the same. If you set the router to 802.11n manually then the 802.11g device's won't connect.
It's a good thing I got a dual band router so my PS3 can connect on 11g and my newer device's on 11n simultaneously.
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The router does not have to be dual band to support both 802.1g (@ 54Mbps) and 802.11n (@ 300Mbps) simultaneously! Like my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH can do just that! Although it does support it simultaneously, I think it will limit the 802.11n client to 54Mbps when an 802.11g client is active, because they might share the same frequency band/channel.

"Dual band" implies that the router supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz, but not necessarily that it supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz clients simultaneously! The routers that allow both 2.4GHz and 5GHz clients to connect simultaneously are very expensive and rare.
 
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Pada said:
If you're using WEP for the wireless security, then you won't be able to go any faster than 54Mbps, even on wireless N.
You'll need to use WPA2 to get higher speeds than that.

Secondly, some WiFi AP's might not give you faster than 54Mbps speeds when clients connect that do not support 802.11n.
So setting the WiFi AP to 802.11n clients only might fix that.
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Changing to WPA2. Sounds like this might be it, it was on WEP...

reactor_sa said:
It's not a dual band router so likely if a 802.11g device connects it will force the rest to the same. If you set the router to 802.11n manually then the 802.11g device's won't connect.
It's a good thing I got a dual band router so my PS3 can connect on 11g and my newer device's on 11n simultaneously.
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Config doesn't allow for n only.

I'm happy with speeds between g+n being limited by g. Between n+n, I expect to see 150Mbps. I assume this works out to 7 or 8 MBps?
 
Thanks Pada :)

Seems the change to WPA2 (personal) has done the trick for the one laptop. Cellphones I'm not worried about. The other laptop and desktop seem stuck on 54Mbps for some reason.

M$- I probably need to reboot :mad:
 
Budza said:
I'm happy with speeds between g+n being limited by g. Between n+n, I expect to see 150Mbps. I assume this works out to 7 or 8 MBps?
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Yup. My Buffalo router supports only 2.4GHz, but with channel bonding it can give you up to 300Mbps connectivity.

Since my laptop does not support channel bonding, it can only connect at 130Mbps, which is around 7-8 MB/s like you said.
 
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