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Soul Assassin

Soul Assassin

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I received my new modem this morning, TP-Link Archer D2, everything setup and working great until I realised my desktop Wi-Fi won't connect, in fact it doesn't even see the new modem. The adapter I am using is the TRENDnet TEW-648UBM.

Any obvious reason why the adapter won't even see the modem?
 
Check what wifi channel the TP-Link is on. Possible that it's in 12 or 13 which some devices may have trouble with. Also the frequency may be set to 5Ghz which the dongle doesn't support.

Also possible that the TP-Link is set to AC only, but I doubt that.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Check what wifi channel the TP-Link is on. Possible that it's in 12 or 13 which some devices may have trouble with. Also the frequency may be set to 5Ghz which the dongle doesn't support.

Also possible that the TP-Link is set to AC only, but I doubt that.
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Beer is on me next time I'm in your neck of the woods, changed the channel from auto to 6 and magically I am connected.
 
Also for anyone that maybe stumbles upon this thread while searching for the Archer D2, it's pretty awesome thus far, my SNR increased from 12 to 16.5 and my line attenuation went down from 12.5 to 9.6. My Galaxy S6 network speed more than doubled from around 70-80Mbps to 170Mbps and my iPad 3 went from around 25Mbps to 55Mbps.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Also for anyone that maybe stumbles upon this thread while searching for the Archer D2, it's pretty awesome thus far, my SNR increased from 12 to 16.5 and my line attenuation went down from 12.5 to 9.6. My Galaxy S6 network speed more than doubled from around 70-80Mbps to 170Mbps and my iPad 3 went from around 25Mbps to 55Mbps.
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Wow! Thanks for the review. I knew it would be awesome. :)
 
As requested by PostmanPot, screenshots of the updated webui:

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I plan on getting the Archer D2 or D5, mostly for its fast wifi network. I currently have a MWeb account and their FON router, but I also have a second ISP account with Afrihost.
So if I get the Archer I want to switch off the access point of the FON router and Connect the FON router to the Archers WAN port so that I can use the MWeb internet through the Archers wifi, esencially only using the MWeb FON router as a ADSL modem.

But I also want to use the modem in the Archer for my Afrihost account, so here comes the real question. I have the FON router on the one side with my MWeb account and I have the Archers modem set up with my Afrihost account on the other side. I don't intend trying to use the 2 ISP accounts at the same time, I plan to switch between them at certain times.
Would I be able to set things up in the Archer to be able to easily switch between the 2 accounts, the MWeb coming in to the Archer via WAN and the Afrihost on its internal modem?
I guess if not possible to configure this in the software, I can always just switch off the FON router when wanting to switch from MWeb to Afrihost.
 
bigboy529 said:
I plan on getting the Archer D2 or D5, mostly for its fast wifi network. I currently have a MWeb account and their FON router, but I also have a second ISP account with Afrihost.
So if I get the Archer I want to switch off the access point of the FON router and Connect the FON router to the Archers WAN port so that I can use the MWeb internet through the Archers wifi, esencially only using the MWeb FON router as a ADSL modem.

But I also want to use the modem in the Archer for my Afrihost account, so here comes the real question. I have the FON router on the one side with my MWeb account and I have the Archers modem set up with my Afrihost account on the other side. I don't intend trying to use the 2 ISP accounts at the same time, I plan to switch between them at certain times.
Would I be able to set things up in the Archer to be able to easily switch between the 2 accounts, the MWeb coming in to the Archer via WAN and the Afrihost on its internal modem?
I guess if not possible to configure this in the software, I can always just switch off the FON router when wanting to switch from MWeb to Afrihost.
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Firstly let me preface this by saying you can do whatever you want, now on to my question, why? Why would you want to do it like that, just use the Archer for everything, you can save both MWEB and Afrihost accounts on the Archer and it takes 5 seconds to switch between them.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Firstly let me preface this by saying you can do whatever you want, now on to my question, why? Why would you want to do it like that, just use the Archer for everything, you can save both MWEB and Afrihost accounts on the Archer and it takes 5 seconds to switch between them.
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Good point, only reason I guess is because as far as I know part of the original MWeb agreement for giving people the FON router for free, was that you must use the FON router and not anything else.
Then again, MWeb is screwing up someware because 90% of the time the MWeb FON hotspot isn't visible from my router anyway, so I might as well tell them to come fetch their FON router and be done with it, then do everything on the Archer.
 
bigboy529 said:
So if I get the Archer I want to switch off the access point of the FON router and Connect the FON router to the Archers WAN port so that I can use the MWeb internet through the Archers wifi, esencially only using the MWeb FON router as a ADSL modem.
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Perhaps doable, but it would require some configuration changes on both routers (you will be wasting lot of time) and the later explanation indicate that different action is more appropriate.
Keep it simple: power off FON, power on Archer (or in reverse) and use automatic configuration. Test it, if you want to keep MWeb, then consider permanent configuration.
 
sajunky said:
Perhaps doable, but it would require some configuration changes on both routers (you will be wasting lot of time) and the later explanation indicate that different action is more appropriate.
Keep it simple: power off FON, power on Archer (or in reverse) and use automatic configuration. Test it, if you want to keep MWeb, then consider permanent configuration.
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As suggested earlyer, maybe I should just configure both accounts on the Archer and give the FON router back to MWeb if they want it back.
 
bigboy529 said:
As suggested earlyer, maybe I should just configure both accounts on the Archer and give the FON router back to MWeb if they want it back.
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OK, so you want to keep MWeb account. If only you can configure MWeb interface on the Archer (I cannot speak about this), then it is a matter of switching router to the manual dialup mode and connecting manually from the WEB page every time you power on the router.
 
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Something else on this Archer, is there any way I can check out its web GUI without having the actual device? This is quite important to me, I'm a screen reader user and would like to check out whether the web GUI is accessible with my screen reading software on both Mac and Windows. It won't give me any joy buying it and finding out I can't use the web GUI at all.
 
You use standard WEB browser for WEB GUI interface. The browser's minimum requirements are typically IE 6 or above.
 
sajunky said:
OK, so you want to keep MWeb account. If only you can configure MWeb interface on the Archer (I cannot speak about this), then it is a matter of switching router to the manual dialup and connecting manually from the WEB page every time you power on the router.
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Yes I want to keep my MWeb account, I'm very happy with it and will keep using it as my main ISP account, the Afrihost account is only there for backup and some serious data burning when I need it.
I do however consider dropping the MWeb FON thing, as said earlyer in the thred the hotspot for some reason anyway doesn't show up on my router so me currently having it isn't a benefit to any other users around me. I also don't really get any benefit from it, I had FON basically since MWeb launched the entire thing and since then I think I connected to FON hotspots at malls, airports etc 4 or 5 times, so I won't at all miss it.
 
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