I am staying at a very old house (early 1900s - early 1940s?) in the eastern US that has a fully finished attic added on in the 1980s. I have inconsistent results with my wireless (G band) USB adapter, so I thought I'd try these Slinglink adapters since Dish Network gave us one that we don't really use. I purchased another of the same model (though they changed the design, the model number remains the same). This search shows both physical variations, the newer model has only 2 lights instead of 3 (no power indicator, just ethernet and homeplug). All lights are solid green.
Many outlets were added up here, as well as additional ones downstairs, but that's all the info I have on that. They are standard 3 prong outlets, and the adapters are going directly in the wall as advised (no power strips or anything like that).
The Asus router here uses mac filtering, and I wasn't sure if it was just for Wifi, so to be safe I gave the owner the mac addresses of both adapters as well as my NIC. The net connected almost immediately after plugging them in (though for some reason it didn't pick up til I rebooted).
Out of the 20mbps cable internet here, I'm barely scraping 1mbps up here, even Gmail struggles to load. The device seems to have solid reviews by people using it for the same purpose I am in a similar scenario, and they report getting at least 10mbps out of the set up. One guy on Amazon reported similar results to mine, but reported that after 3 days the problem went away for unknown reasons and he has no more issues. Is there anything that I'm doing wrong or should look for to figure out what the issue could be?
I still can try this on the same floor as the router/modem with my laptop's ethernet plug to see if better results are achieved down there, but I really wouldn't know what else to look for.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks for reading.
- Bill
The NIC on the desktop machine being used is an onboard Broadcom NIC with 2011 drivers (AsRock Z77 Board)
Many outlets were added up here, as well as additional ones downstairs, but that's all the info I have on that. They are standard 3 prong outlets, and the adapters are going directly in the wall as advised (no power strips or anything like that).
The Asus router here uses mac filtering, and I wasn't sure if it was just for Wifi, so to be safe I gave the owner the mac addresses of both adapters as well as my NIC. The net connected almost immediately after plugging them in (though for some reason it didn't pick up til I rebooted).
Out of the 20mbps cable internet here, I'm barely scraping 1mbps up here, even Gmail struggles to load. The device seems to have solid reviews by people using it for the same purpose I am in a similar scenario, and they report getting at least 10mbps out of the set up. One guy on Amazon reported similar results to mine, but reported that after 3 days the problem went away for unknown reasons and he has no more issues. Is there anything that I'm doing wrong or should look for to figure out what the issue could be?
I still can try this on the same floor as the router/modem with my laptop's ethernet plug to see if better results are achieved down there, but I really wouldn't know what else to look for.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks for reading.
- Bill
The NIC on the desktop machine being used is an onboard Broadcom NIC with 2011 drivers (AsRock Z77 Board)
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