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Lord Farquart
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Up till two weeks ago my home network was running fine. 10meg ADSL with a Telkom Netgear ADSL router, 3x TP-Link access points and one TP-Link repeater. PCs, phones, tablets and Android media players were running fine on this WiFi setup. No streaming issues or anything.
2 Weeks ago we got fibre and a new D-Link VDSL router with wifi. Without making any changes to the wifi SSID setup etc, this new unit replaced the Netgear ADSL router. I was in Botswana and got the call the WiFi is now screwed up with it almost being useless most of the time.
Got home yesterday and started checking. It is buggered. I have now switched off the new D-Link's wifi and only using one AP to transmit WiFi on the old setup. It seems OK, but the speedtests are all over the place, ranging from 1mbps to 96mbps on repetitive tests. When all the WiFi devices are on, it seems the units are screwing each other up. I have to say that some of the equpment on this network could be 10 years old (TP-Link stuff).
What on the old and new WiFi networks can be screwing each other around like this? 802.11b/g/n??? Any advice or maybe someone that can come out and assess and quote me on what to do to get it working again? Centurion area.
2 Weeks ago we got fibre and a new D-Link VDSL router with wifi. Without making any changes to the wifi SSID setup etc, this new unit replaced the Netgear ADSL router. I was in Botswana and got the call the WiFi is now screwed up with it almost being useless most of the time.
Got home yesterday and started checking. It is buggered. I have now switched off the new D-Link's wifi and only using one AP to transmit WiFi on the old setup. It seems OK, but the speedtests are all over the place, ranging from 1mbps to 96mbps on repetitive tests. When all the WiFi devices are on, it seems the units are screwing each other up. I have to say that some of the equpment on this network could be 10 years old (TP-Link stuff).
What on the old and new WiFi networks can be screwing each other around like this? 802.11b/g/n??? Any advice or maybe someone that can come out and assess and quote me on what to do to get it working again? Centurion area.
) trying to sort this out. Just with the new D-Link on, the WiFi was good, but did not reach everywhere. So I still needed some access points. It turns out the older (5years) TP-Link APs did not like the new D-Link. I had 2 newer generation TP-Link APs, and once I had all of them set up, the three together gives me full coverage and full speed. PS3, Android STPs, phones, tablets and computers now all connect at full speed. The minute I introduce one of the older devices to the network, everything falls flat.