Recent content by eldridgep2

Draytek routers are great use them all the time for smaller clients at work well the 28xx and 29xx ones not so much the smaller ones. They are very solid, support multi WAN with failover and can handle a ludicrous number of VPN connections for such a small box. They are quite pricey for home use...

If you can take out the battery and just run off the cord please do so, having a non removable battery in a laptop is really weird are you sure it is not removable? Can you post the model/serial number? Old batteries like that will swell over time making them hard to remove and also warping the...

That really makes no sense and sounds like a bug in the hardware/firmware to be honest. One device leaving a wi-fi network really should not affect all the other devices on that network. The issue seems to be just with the wi-fi not the broadband as your ethernet devices are OK this also rules...

Think this is a simple one the Archer C20 only has 10/100Mb LAN and WAN ports so it will never talk at more than 100Mb you need a device with Gigabit LAN ports built in. https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-c20/#specifications

Are you sure everything is on the same subnet? ;) This sounds like you have a VLAN or zones issue whereby your wireless is in a different zone or VLAN and it is not trusted by the wired LAN so the router keeps the devices separate. I would expect to see this on a business class UTM device but...

Clearly the issue is not the modem as when you hard wire into that it is fine, if you see the same speed connecting to the router wirelessly and wired it's unlikely to be a dodgy cable between the router and the PC so that only really leaves the router as the issue as you see the same hit to...

Good luck and don't spend too much one of those cheap Chinese AX200 cards that I listed above will probably be fine.

If the wi-fi card is built into the PC may I suggest it may not be the best? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ziyituod-Bluetooth5-0-2974Mbps-Wireless-Bluetooth/dp/B07Z1W8Y16/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=ax200&qid=1630426042&sr=8-4 Get something like the above put it into a free PCIe slot assuming you...

kanewolf is entirely correct that placing your USB connection can make a huge difference to it's performance definitely worth a try. Stupid point but also make sure that you have it connected to a USB 3.0 plug and not a USB 2.0 plug or you will see performance drops. Lastly it sounds like you...

Your connection type on the TP-Link Archer is a static IP address connection. Have the Horzizon router connect as normal so Horizon IP is 192.168.1.1 in the Static IP settings on the Archer have the IP address as 192.168.1.2, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and default gateway as being 192.168.1.1...

Absolutely when running as a modem you should only have your router plugged into the modem in the primary LAN port then everything else plugs into the router or runs off the wi-fi on the router.

Switch off Wi-Fi on the Cisco box and see if the Wi-Fi on the Nighthawk starts behaving and vice versa, check for other wi-fi signals on the channels you nighthawk is using you can use a Wi-Fi scanner app on your phone to do this. Don't like too many wi-fi sources right next to each other...

Robocopy is your friend.... https://petri.com/copy-files-preserve-timestamp If it's for PC Backups etc you can even make batch files to do it an schedule them from task scheduler. The /MIR switch is a godsend as it will only mirror changes from the host drive to the destination drive so is...

Of the two I'd go with Orbi. The higher model Orbi's have a dedicated channel specifically for wireless backhaul that the Nests lack also on most of the tests I've seen with budget as no object the Orbi's tend to come out on top.

Get a mobile phone app which will allow you to see what channels are in use in your area I'm on android and use Wi-Fi Analyser which is free. Most routers out the box will default to a channel like 1 or 11 and this means if people don't change from the default those channels can beome really...