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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: alisxx on December 13, 2008, 11:26:55 PM
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Can someone please help me out...
did anyone solve the prob with the slow mbps...mine wont nudge from 65!!!
I upgraded to 1.21 ..still the same so I reset the router.
Anyway, any suggestions? I am totally lost.
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Explain it further...
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Elaborate more on your environment and local setup. You cannot expect to get 300 Mbps everywhere in the house when there's a couple of concrete walls in between and in any distance. There are too many factors that influence it.
So give us some good, detailled input if you want your problem solved. Otherwise it will take the lot of us too much time to start guessing.
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I am talking about when I just set it up, the computer was right next to the router. I have an Intel 5100 card- on settings I need both n and g and have 20/40mhz. I live an apt and it is small. I need to know what settings I would need to fix the router at so I get the most out of the range, as I want the signal to reach at least 100 ft outside to my friends apt.
If I am getting 65 mbps right now in the same room as the router, I can only imagine how slow it would go further away like outside.
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Have you read throuhgh the various topics on the forum about the connection quality?
There are tons of tips and possible solutions...
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Download the latest drivers from intel website. Not from your laptop manufacturer's website.
Then configure the driver manually and set the 2.4GHz mode to automatic. I think it defaults to 20MHz mode. I was able to get up to 150Mbps this way.
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Eddie:yes I spent 2 hours last night reading through all of the so called solutions and implementing but nothing was working so I reset the router and posted a new topic hoping someone would have an answer.
Neblinio: Thanks, I tried what you said.....it is still 65 mbps!!!!!!!!!!! But i am glad i installed the newest driver for the intel 5100 and learned something new.
A thing noticed was that on internet connection status, it says ipv4: internet, but on ipv6 it says "limited" -- is that the problem or is it supposed to say that or whatever?
Thanks
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also................I have vista premium 64 bit...could that be the prob and how should I configure it according to the OS?
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Try this if it will improve,
Enable auto channel scan
Set the transmission rate to best automatic
Set the channel width to auto 20/40 mhz
Set the security mode to WPA
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networkcrawler: those are my current settings....
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Read the forum?
* Do not use autoscan, but find a good channel manually. Neighbouring AP's, interference...?
* Read the 'stickies' in the 655 forum what the basic requirements are for 300 Mbps
* Give an overview of your 5100 driver settings
IPv6: 'limited' is normal, since I assume that your ISP is not IPv6-ready, not only offering a tunnel (seldomly they are). So only in your LAN Vista will use IPv6 with other Vista clients.
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Alysxx, try again reconfiguring the driver's advanced properties in the device manager.
Aside from the 2.4GHz mode which needs to be manually set to "automatic", there are also some other parameters which can affect the link speed. I'm afraid I don't remember exactly how I configured it, and don't have that notebook here to look at it. But it should be quite easy.
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Neblinio...it seems downloading the new intel driver did the trick...I now have 150 mbps. Still, are you satisfied with that? Arnt we supposed to get 300 mbps with this router? Or is it just for those people configured as N only?
eddie: yes i tried switching the channels when the read it in the sticky, but it did nothing, actually some channels decreased the signal quality. I meet all of the 300 mbps requirements EXCEPT having a d-linka adapter as well because frankly I do not need one, the intel 5100 card is a good enough card that can deliver up tp 450 mbps supposedly and also supports 40mhz
So now i have 150 mbps, but not 300.
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Neblinio...it seems downloading the new intel driver did the trick...I now have 150 mbps. Still, are you satisfied with that? Arnt we supposed to get 300 mbps with this router? Or is it just for those people configured as N only?
eddie: yes i tried switching the channels when the read it in the sticky, but it did nothing, actually some channels decreased the signal quality. I meet all of the 300 mbps requirements EXCEPT having a d-linka adapter as well because frankly I do not need one, the intel 5100 card is a good enough card that can deliver up tp 450 mbps supposedly and also supports 40mhz
So now i have 150 mbps, but not 300.
300 Mbps is not guaranteed when using another adapter. More or less the same with every brand.
For future reference when you have an issue, make sure you got the latest drivers installed. Like it is mentioned in the various other posts on the forum ;)
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well 150 mbps sucks since when i had g router, it gave me 250 or something like that, my downloads are slow.......................
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250 mbps with a G router is physically impossible, if that's what you try to tell us. G=54 mbps theoretical throughput. In practice 20-25 mbps max due to overhead etc.
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Sometimes the driver will show throughput in stead of connection speed.
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Sometimes the driver will show throughput in stead of connection speed.
Anyhow, believing a 54g router actually does 250 mbps kinda resembles believing in Santa Claus. ;D
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I think he was referring to kbps, probably observing a download from the interwebs and confusing the transfer rate with connection speed.
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I hope so ;D
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sorry i meant it was 65 mbps before and its still the same now..with a wireless n...I guess n router reviews are right there is virtually no difference. I bought this router because of the reviews but i see not much difference.
Anyhow, the router is back to 65msps from the 150 mbps i was getting...dunno whats up....
Do you think Ican downgrade to firmware 1.11 and will it help? thanks.
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Did you install intel PROset to manage the wireless or is Windows managing it?
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Also i noticed you said you are using WPA security mode, is the WPA mode set to WPA2 only?
This is required to get better speeds, I use a DIR-655 with a Intel 5100AGN and had the exact same problem, it was fixed by:
- Setting the router to Auto 20/40MHz
- WPA set to WPA2 only
- Setting the Intel 5100AGN to automatic 2.4GHz so it uses 40MHz
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intel only does 20mhz i think on 11n, so it only goes to 150mbps
as before the settings has to be WPA-AES or WPA2-AES
TKIP wont allow for high speed, nither do WEP
best setting for n and g are
Mixed 802.11n and 802.11g
WPA2-AES
Auto 20/40
Channel 10
if you 11g cards dont support WPA-AES or WPA2-AES your out of luck