jatin.ahuja@gmail.com hath wroth:

>I have a 2 router network setup, 1 WRTP54G (Vonage Voip enabled router)
>and another WRT54G router connected to the first one (wired) and being
>used as an access point (i.e Port 1 or WRT54G is connected to port 1 of
>WRTP45G and I have supplied a static IP to my WRT54G with my main
>router WRTP54G's IP as its Default Gateway).

Can I assume that these two radios are on different channels (1, 6,
11)? It will work on the same channel but you'll have some mutual
interference between them.

>1. When I'm connected to the WRT54G (access point) wirelessly, my
>connection speed is terrible, I get like 5k/sec download speed and if I
>leave my laptop on for the night, when I wake up I've lost connectivity
>and it takes ages to get connected again (and at times the internet
>doesnt work then)
>
>As a benchmark, if I hook my laptop up directly to the router (WRTP54G)
>I get a download speed of about 45k/sec. So the drop is quite huge

That's not a benchmark. I can't tell if it's bits or Bytes. I can't
tell if you measuring the speed from the internet, from a wireless
device, or from a local PC. I also can't tell how you obtained the
numbers. In any case, it doesn't make any sense. 45KBytes/sec would
be 360Kbits/sec which is far slower than I would expect from even the
slowest wireless over the air data rate. At close range, you should
get a 54Mbit/sec connection, which should give about 20-25MBits/sec
TCP thruput measured from a CAT5 connected computer. If you don't
have a benchmarking tool, try IPerf at:
http://www.noc.ucf.edu/Tools/Iperf/default.htm
Please don't use an internet speed benchmark web site to measure your
wireless speed. The wireless should be MUCH faster than whatever
you're using for internet access (unless you have a fiber connection).

>2. There are times when it takes ages to connect to the access point
>wirelessly from my laptop, and restarting the access point seems to
>solve the problem.

That could be inteference from the other Vonage wireless router. Hard
to tell from here. Are they physically seperated or right next to
each other? Try isolating the WRT54G to some basement or location
where there's little wireless junk. Ping the IP address of the WRT54G
to see if it's working well. No need for an internet connection. It
should have ping times of 1msec or less. Check the signal strength,
signal to noise ratio, and connection speed as indicated by whatever
you're using for a client computer.

Could you disclose the hardware version of the WRT54G? V5 and V6 had
serious problems with the early versions of firmware. I'm not sure
the later firmware versions really fixed everything. Some numbers
please.

You're also making the assumption that this is an access point or
wireless router problem. It could easily be a problem at the client
end. Could you disclose what you're using for the client?


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