Home Wifi Woes Update 2 - Dual router setup

Left over food for dinner -- ok.
Messy house -- ok.
No lights, no fan in the room -- ok.

Everything is OK as long as wifi is working.

Wifi Repeater

I had a powerline repeater in one bedroom and a wifi repeater on the other.  The problem was if you start to move around, your session can easily get dropped.  This is because even when your laptop switches to a stronger repeater, the session will not be handled over.  It may mean you have to reset the connection.  Matter is much worse if you are in between zones.

Few days into setting up the repeaters, complains mounted and they simply switch the repeaters off.

One night after another round of complaints, I decided to make some changes.

Dual router -- one to face SingTel and the other to broadcast wifi

Doing this actually solved two problems:

1. Keeping the SingTel modem to face the internet makes it easy for SingTel customer service to conduct testes.
2. Keeping the SingTel modem near all my Ethernet connected devices will mean less unsightly cables on the outside.



With the Wifi router outside, dead center of the house, time for another round of test.

New Wifi Router -- Dlink 868L.  Both routers are side-by-side.  Connecting to http://www.speedtest.com.sg/.

Living Room, 5ft away from router, unblocked.

77.68Mbps - SingTel Modem
87.16Mbps - Dlink 2.4G
139.67Mbps - Dlink 5G

Bedroom 1, 15 ft away, room door in between.

14.28Mbps - SingTel Modem
81.33Mbps - Dlink 2.4G
112.57Mbps - Dlink 5G

Kitchen, 20-25ft away, 2 walls, next to Fridge, washing machine and dryer.

5.51Mbps - SingTel Modem
11.83Mbps - Dlink 2.4G
58.56Mbps - Dlink 5G

Wahaaaa!!!  I cannot contain my joy!  58Mbps at the furthest end was totally unexpected even though no one would be using wifi at that spot.

Ok, one more test to see if my theory is correct:  broadcasting ONLY 5G will yield better result.

Living room -- 148Mbps (better by 9Mbps)
Bedroom 1 -- 93Mbps (less by 9Mbps)
Kitchen -- 72Mbps (better by 14Mbps)

Mixed results.  Improvement is marginal.  Nevertheless, less radio waves moving around is better right?  So I turned of the 2.4Ghz on the routers until...we need to print.  Yep, printers don't support 5Ghz.









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