Thought I had a problem with my R6300 V1, but it turned out to be a flakely wireless adapter on my old laptop (not the only problem). Now with a new laptop, I dusted off the R6300 V1, updated the firmware, set up my home network on it, and everything is workling very nicely now. The key to usng a dual band router, especially one with that much thruput on the 5ghz band is (sounds simplistic) to be able to use both bands. Is there a way to set a wireless adapter to recognize the 5ghz band? I don't really know. I am using a couple of wireless bridges to take advantage of the upper band. For example, my XBOX is ethernet connected along with my home theater receiver and smart BluRay player to a 4 port wireless bridge which connects to the 5ghz band on the router and my XBL connection is always great.
I have an AT&T u verse gateway (2 wire 3600HGV ). The wireless range is not great in the house and connection are dropping all the time, my wife's onging complaints about the dropped interet spurred me to look for a new wireless router to boost the signal. I just picked up the NETGEAR Wireless Router - AC1750 Dual Band Gigabit from Fry's yesterday. I have the gateway on top of my entertainment center...so the xbox has acess via wired to a 4 port switch. I know that I cannot just plug in the new router into the gateway, it will take some configuring. Any preemptive advice? Also, should I leave the wired 4 port switch plugged directly into the gateway and just use the new router for wireless....or should I move all devices to the new router?
Also, should I leave the wired 4 port switch plugged directly into the gateway and just use the new router for wireless....or should I move all devices to the new router?
Missed this part.
It doesn't reallly matter if you do or not. If you want them to be on the same network and be able to communicate with each other, then move your switch from the modem/gateway to the router. Unless your modem/gateway is passing out all your IPs to your network. I'm going to see this is how it was working before you got your router. Now everything connected to your router will get an IP from it, and everything connected to your modem/gateway will get an IP from it.
Some times the modem/gateway from your ISP will have a very small DHCP pool (# of IPs it will give you) which is one reason why a router is required. So if equipment connected to your switch that is connected to your gateway, move it to your router and that should resolve that issue.
Thanks for the help...I just plugged in the router to the gateway (turned off the gateway's wireless broadcast) an plugged everything into the new router. All is working fine.
I've had luck with both brands. Currently have the 6300 v1, which is the previous version before that 6300 v2.
Thought I had a problem with my R6300 V1, but it turned out to be a flakely wireless adapter on my old laptop (not the only problem). Now with a new laptop, I dusted off the R6300 V1, updated the firmware, set up my home network on it, and everything is workling very nicely now. The key to usng a dual band router, especially one with that much thruput on the 5ghz band is (sounds simplistic) to be able to use both bands. Is there a way to set a wireless adapter to recognize the 5ghz band? I don't really know. I am using a couple of wireless bridges to take advantage of the upper band. For example, my XBOX is ethernet connected along with my home theater receiver and smart BluRay player to a 4 port wireless bridge which connects to the 5ghz band on the router and my XBL connection is always great.
I have an AT&T u verse gateway (2 wire 3600HGV ). The wireless range is not great in the house and connection are dropping all the time, my wife's onging complaints about the dropped interet spurred me to look for a new wireless router to boost the signal. I just picked up the NETGEAR Wireless Router - AC1750 Dual Band Gigabit from Fry's yesterday. I have the gateway on top of my entertainment center...so the xbox has acess via wired to a 4 port switch. I know that I cannot just plug in the new router into the gateway, it will take some configuring. Any preemptive advice? Also, should I leave the wired 4 port switch plugged directly into the gateway and just use the new router for wireless....or should I move all devices to the new router?
Missed this part.
It doesn't reallly matter if you do or not. If you want them to be on the same network and be able to communicate with each other, then move your switch from the modem/gateway to the router. Unless your modem/gateway is passing out all your IPs to your network. I'm going to see this is how it was working before you got your router. Now everything connected to your router will get an IP from it, and everything connected to your modem/gateway will get an IP from it.
Some times the modem/gateway from your ISP will have a very small DHCP pool (# of IPs it will give you) which is one reason why a router is required. So if equipment connected to your switch that is connected to your gateway, move it to your router and that should resolve that issue.
Usually you can just plug a router into your modem/gateway as long as you have your WAN side set to DHCP. (That's the default setting)
^ what Soul said.
Agree. What I did.
Thanks for the help...I just plugged in the router to the gateway (turned off the gateway's wireless broadcast) an plugged everything into the new router. All is working fine.
I ended up getting this one today.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/NETGEAR+-+Wireless-AC+Dual-Band+Gigabit+Rout...