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Turn the wireless off in your router for a nice performance lift. There is a guy on Audiogon talking about it so I tried it. Now cannot go back.
Setup = Arris CM8200 cable modem > TP Link Archer wifi-router.
Turn off the radio wireless in TP-Link Archer. Make sure to turn off both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz.
You still need wireless access of course, so I connected a cheap TP-Link wifi access point back to a router LAN port via ethernet cable. This makes the wi-fi isolated and external to the router.
This improved everything subtly, but is well worth the effort. These wi-fi chips, when active, must be causing a huge amount of noise internally in the router, effecting everything downstream.
Setup = Arris CM8200 cable modem > TP Link Archer wifi-router.
Turn off the radio wireless in TP-Link Archer. Make sure to turn off both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz.
You still need wireless access of course, so I connected a cheap TP-Link wifi access point back to a router LAN port via ethernet cable. This makes the wi-fi isolated and external to the router.
This improved everything subtly, but is well worth the effort. These wi-fi chips, when active, must be causing a huge amount of noise internally in the router, effecting everything downstream.
Interesting. Do you have any issues with multiple router fighting to assign IP address?
I'm gonna try this. I think it will work well. I sort of feel a need to get a half decent second, wifi router. Or, do I just need a LPS to go to the wifi router to reduce backfeed noise. I have LPS on all the other pieces.
Either way, I remember when I discovered using an external router in itself, separate from the modem was a big improvement. It seem any time you can reduce the load to any one piece in this chain, the performance improves overall.
Usually you can switch off WIFI in the router and connect an access point via cable, you really want an LPS for the router AND WIFI switched off inside the router.
Yes, your saying you have to access the primary router software and switch off WIFI. You leave it on in the second access point WIFI router.
I will have to watch some UTube on my Asus to figure it out. That is something I hardly ever mess with.
People should also remember you want WIFI switched off in the modem too.
not really, I have one router, which has internal WIFI and an external Mesh WIFI repeater, I just need to add another WIFI repeater connected to the router via cableand switch off WIFI in the router itself
Yes but you turn off DHCP (IP assigning) in every device but the main router. If your cable modem is the router, use that.
In my example, the TP-Link wireless access point gets its ip address from the main TP-Link wi-fi router (the one with the wireless turned off).
It will take an IT savvy tech to do it.
Ahh, different hardware. A repeater, not a additional router. Like this.
You do not want a wi-fi repeater, or a wi-fi extender, you want a wi-fi access point. They are different.
Agree for the primary WIFI source, yet I need at least one repeater yet some can do both, depending on how you set them up.
(have a Fritz repeater, but in the process of moving house so I'm happy the network is up....to be continued
??????? My cell uses wifi for mail and text. Not talk. I don't see why that functionality would change.
Don't know what I was thinking.
As long as all our computers, music server, and DirecTV are hard wired (Cat6), there should be no need of us to have WiFi turned on.
We test out this week.
Thanks!
@Kingrex Yes that’s correct. In router advanced settings there may be 2 radio settings to turn off, one for each of 2.4ghz and 5ghz.
And yes, a wifi access point can also act as a router, but you want this functionality turned off (DHCP Server = disabled) so you are not running double routers on the network.
Wifi access points can also act as range extenders, but if it’s your only wireless device you need to set the operation mode to Access Point.
And yes, a wifi access point can also act as a router, but you want this functionality turned off (DHCP Server = disabled) so you are not running double routers on the network.
Wifi access points can also act as range extenders, but if it’s your only wireless device you need to set the operation mode to Access Point.
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