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Wifi is horrible and I always get terrible speeds with it. I have a Netgear WNDR4500 and a brand new Macbook Pro and I get speeds of like 1MB/s max and constant dropped packets and it is lovely. When I connect with ethernet everything is super fast though, 20MB/s easy. 2.4GHz, 5GHz, close, far, it is always bad. I also live in the jungle so I see zero other APs besides mine. Why is wifi so horrible?
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becausefi
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Dec 30, 2017 04:37
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I'm standing in your yard wiggling my big weiner to block ur signal
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Dec 30, 2017 04:39
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works fine for ,e OP
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Dec 30, 2017 04:43
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as an audiophile i prefer wired fidelity
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Dec 30, 2017 04:59
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Stereotype posted:Wifi is horrible and I always get terrible speeds with it. I have a Netgear WNDR4500 and a brand new Macbook Pro and I get speeds of like 1MB/s max and constant dropped packets and it is lovely. When I connect with ethernet everything is super fast though, 20MB/s easy. 2.4GHz, 5GHz, close, far, it is always bad. I also live in the jungle so I see zero other APs besides mine. the real reason is that you are using a macbook pro. in order to economize on board space, apple is the only company fool enough to buy broadcom chips. and they're loving horrible. literally the worst in the industry. there are no-name chinese clones that perform better
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Dec 30, 2017 05:03
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that said even with your broadcom chip you may have better luck with a nicer AP i personally am very fond of ubnt, because they are significantly cheaper than "real" enterprise equipment but almost good. https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/
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Dec 30, 2017 05:04
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Dec 30, 2017 05:05
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your router is broken get a new one
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Dec 30, 2017 05:17
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:there are no-name chinese clones that perform better I had a wifi dongle that would pick up wifi through multiple walls when I was doing poo poo in a detached garage it was great
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Dec 30, 2017 05:35
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indigi posted:becausefi
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Dec 30, 2017 05:39
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but what about you're posting 
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Dec 30, 2017 05:44
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*borat voice* my wifi
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Dec 30, 2017 05:52
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OldAlias posted:*borat voice* my wifi
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Dec 30, 2017 06:02
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I get over 20MB/s on my wifi, op it's good enough
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Dec 30, 2017 06:02
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:that said even with your broadcom chip you may have better luck with a nicer AP thank you for the real help! I figured it was something stupid apple was doing. to all you jokers joking around: good job very funny.
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Dec 30, 2017 06:07
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Stereotype posted:thank you for the real help! I figured it was something stupid apple was doing. I’ll look into a new router. this one was like $30 on clearance at Office Depot before they moved to make way for a mega Whole Foods.
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Dec 30, 2017 06:08
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that was supposed to be an edit but I’m not going to fix it.
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Dec 30, 2017 06:08
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indigi posted:becausefi rip harris 
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Dec 30, 2017 06:46
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WiFi is extremely good and an engineering marvel
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Dec 30, 2017 07:25
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Simply do not hold it in that way
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Dec 30, 2017 07:50
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AS AN OCCUPANT OF HIGH DENSITY HOUSING IN A HIP NEIGHBORHOOD I FIND THE WIFI BANDS INCREDIBLY CROWDED whoops i had caps-lock on, not retyping that
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Dec 30, 2017 08:41
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HoboMan posted:AS AN OCCUPANT OF HIGH DENSITY HOUSING IN A HIP NEIGHBORHOOD I FIND THE WIFI BANDS INCREDIBLY CROWDED I keep forgetting to change my wifi name but I never bother because I can't think of any good and I'd just change it to "poopoo peepee butts lmao" or something
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Dec 30, 2017 08:46
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Stymie posted:rip harris
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Dec 30, 2017 09:09
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HoboMan posted:AS AN OCCUPANT OF HIGH DENSITY HOUSING IN A HIP NEIGHBORHOOD I FIND THE WIFI BANDS INCREDIBLY CROWDED imo caps lock should invert the capitalization if you press it with text highlighted.
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Dec 30, 2017 09:12
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I had this problem op and I rang my internet service provider vodafone and they put me into one of their vodafone tech ninjas who said the following (after I confirmed a normal speed from my wired connection): wifi speeds lie. your connection and the wifi speed is fine and normal. however if you still think you are experiencing slow speeds I am willing to send a replacement modem for free, and apply a 12 month contract with us. no? ok. thanks for calling. so in summary op, you’re wrong. ninjas say so.
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Dec 30, 2017 10:20
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:I had this problem op and I rang my internet service provider vodafone and they put me into one of their vodafone tech ninjas who said the following (after I confirmed a normal speed from my wired connection): shaw kept calling me asking me to upgrade, and I literally told them to gently caress off. they haven't called me since. hope this helps
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Dec 30, 2017 10:27
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I wonder if I got straight up shunted to the do not call list
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Dec 30, 2017 10:36
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the real shocker is that while wifi is a day-to-day headache i get low latency, stable, high bandwidth 4g both in town and in the middle of the woods have to imagine it is an illustration of the merits of management vs. anarchy on a frequency spectrum
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Dec 30, 2017 11:44
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wifi is actually good OP. thanks to the Verizon quantum Router I get a stable, reliable wifi connection to watch my favorite movies, videos and sports with virtually no lag. From shopping to booking travel, faster speeds allows me to do so much more in less time.
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Dec 30, 2017 14:31
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*yosposter thinking*: hmm my piece of poo poo router is slow MAYBE ALL WIFI loving SUCKS me, the intellectual forums poastyer : QUALITY HOME NETWORK EQUIPMENT 
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Dec 30, 2017 14:31
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Stereotype posted:I have a Netgear WNDR4500 found ur problem. get to best buy and buy an asus spider router. 
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akadajet posted:found ur problem. get to best buy and buy an asus spider router. will this make my FPS better
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Dec 30, 2017 16:11
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:that said even with your broadcom chip you may have better luck with a nicer AP yo I bought two of these for my parents and they have literally never given them trouble ever. I showed up after a year and it just needed a firmware update plus the installation process involved pulling cat5 through the attic which meant solid Dad bonding time.
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Dec 30, 2017 16:21
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if you want working wifi you need to pay like a grand for the base stations and then hope to the heavens you have a slightly-less-than-garbage transceiver in your computer, because literally everything consumer grade I've ever had the misfortune of using is completely broken I mean, this is not that weird, wifi is a godawful pile of hacks trying to solve the lack of bandwidth, horribly congested frequency spectrum and comically underpowered transmitters by throwing a ton of really complex digital signals processing (like software beam forming and poo poo) at the problem, so of course the underpaid Indian firmware developers never get it quite right. There are just so many weird rear end wifi problems you can and will get. Really, wifi is a really good microcosmical example of everything that is wrong with the tech industry. We have a perfectly reliable, cheap and technically superior solution to the problem: wires. There are literally wires that are a hundred years old and still work perfectly fine. However, this solution is unacceptable because it requires the worst of all horrible and unsexy things you can spend money on, the dreaded infrastructure. That is simply not acceptable, so instead the tech industry throws billions of dollars at increasingly complex but obviously flawed wifi garbage gadgets and eventually comes up with something that almost works decently if you spend a few grand on decent base stations instead of just spending  on cat5. But living in the future is totally worth the cost, duuuude!
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:will this make my FPS better probably
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my wifi works great. latvia strong
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Dec 30, 2017 17:22
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I bought a switch and put everything in my a/v cabinet on ethernet, probably made no difference but feels good and I only have my laptop and phone on wifi
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TheFluff posted:if you want working wifi you need to pay like a grand for the base stations and then hope to the heavens you have a slightly-less-than-garbage transceiver in your computer, because literally everything consumer grade I've ever had the misfortune of using is completely broken possibly the second weird thing about wifi is why it didn't end up going down the usb (or arm or whatever) route where one good manufacturer has it figured out and everyone else just copies that with potentially tiny tweaks. there seems to be a lot of duplicated effort for very little gain
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I thought my internet connection was super horrible bc my wifi was so slow but then I finally bought a new router and was like oh, huh, how about that Turns out that even if your old router was originally sold as being capable of 300Mbps or whatever, it might not actually be able to sustain that for any length of time when multiple devices are connected bc the chipset is from 2007 and the software stack is garbage and it overheats and throttles back I got a tp-link Archer c8 for under a hundo I think and it sustains at least 150Mbps to any number of devices it's connected to
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