Recent content by john-b691

802.11AC may actually make your problem worse....assuming you are actually going to use the AC features. So ignoring the fact that this is not a finalized standard. Your first issue is this only runs on the 5g band which is more easily absorbed by walls than 2.4. Next to get the speed they...

download awus036H drivers, they should work it is the same chipset. Not sure what the 36NR is the 36NHR uses rtl8188 chip.

If you can get cat6 for about the same price at cat5e then do it since it has slightly better resistance to interference. BUT it is so slight that it likely makes no difference. Supply and demand has dropped cat6 cable to less than cat5e in some cases. Speed wise both will run gig speed...

There are so many ways to do this. Hard to say which works best. I normally do not link wiki pages but this is one of the better ones. It is somewhat limited on the commercial software but it may be omitting software that does many more things one of which is file replication...

I am guessing you have DSL service now. Likely it is not so much att but the telephone cable distance to your house. It will likely work the same no matter which provider you have. So your other option is via cable tv. So it depends who offers cable tv in your area. Worst case houston is...

First thing to try is to move your machine to where the other laptops work well and see what happens. You also can try a long USB cable and put the device remote from your machine. Many times the machine itself will block the signal for these tiny network adapters. Also if you are running a...

It has to be something very basic in the network settings for ethernet port. ipconfig command should show if you are getting a IP or if you even see the ethernet device. You need to go into the network settings for that device and see if it thinks it is connected and if it is has all the...

I have not seen what you can lock that router to. I would suspect you can lock it to N. Not sure if you can make it run say only AC and N. I have seen lots of reviews say lots of things. But if you go to the FCC site and look at what it says, the N66u and AC66u processor and 2.4 radio...

You almost can't compare them. I would hope you plan to add a switch to the PC and not try to run all that all over wireless. The PC app can do so much more but it will also kill that machine if you decided to filter at url levels. Then again the asus can't even really do that. The key...

You may have to create a network connection. Most the time machines have these for the lan ports but it may be disabled or something. Get tough to guess so many things can cause ports to not work. Pretty much the lights tell you the cable is good and both devices function at a hardware level...

Does it make a difference which machine you do the copy command from. Many times it is the application software. To really test there is old but reliable tool called IPERF. It has a number of options but the default ones generally are all you need. This tool only tests the network between...

You really can force any cable to really be 90 degree. You likely can't hurt it if you only use your hands to bend it...ie don't try to pound it into position with a hammer. Many times on the top of door corners you can take a round file and file a small grove. If you can pry the boards off...

Don't use WEP. Disable WPS If you use a complicated password and WPA/WPA2 it will take many years to guess your password. If you are still concerned build yourself a radius server and set the router to run enterprise mode with certificates.

Well you could try the obvious...or maybe not if you think the mac security means something. Change the mac of you PC to the same as your IPPAD. You could also plug directly into the internet connection to verify it is not the PC itself causing the issue. I suspect you are going to be...