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[Michael432]

Michael432 wrote:

Granted: “percent busy” is only valid at the time it is measured. Sure would be nice to have a system that showed percent busy for wifi channels over time. Peplink just rolled out something like this in their routers, but I have yet to kick the tires on it.

Misery seems to love company as they say. WiFiInfoView from Nirsoft.net shows 160 SSIDs in my apartment after a few minutes of scanning. Does that mean I win? Or, that I lose 🙂

I would not have expected over 70 SSIDs in a single family home. Ugh.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Michael432.

The winners in this game will be those who make the best use of the hardware available, configured via tested principles, to get the most stable communications; as opposed to those who rely on hearsay, advertising, and sometimes illegal hardware, and must bear the resulting frustration.

Yes, the “percent busy” can be useful, but is only valid at the time it is measured. For reasons you can imagine, different loads will exist at different times.

I know about busy neighborhoods. I receive over 50 SSIDs from my office window.

[Dan in St. Louis]

You are correct, there are at least two apps with the same name. I have tried several similar apps and prefer this one.

I have been using inSSIDer for a few years, and it does present a strong range of options, but for a quick site survey the Android apps work just as well.

inSSIDer does not show “the actual number of bits traveling on a channel,” it is telling us what the connection rate is (limited by the protocol used). It is common that the actual maximum transfer rate is about half of that, and of course the actual rate may be zero at any given time if no data has been requested.

 

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Dan in St. Louis.
• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Dan in St. Louis.

[Michael432]

Michael432 wrote:

Yes, I was referring to the Client List on the Status tab.

The best signal strength is in the minus 40s. the minus 50s is also excellent. The minus 60s is middle and the minus 70s is borderline usable. Devices in the same room as my Surf SOHO all show in the minus 40s and minus 50s.

AP tab -> Settings shows which radio frequency band(s) is/are assigned to each SSID.

In AP tab -> settings if the channel is set to “auto” the edit button can be used to limit the available channel choices. Another nice feature of the Surf SOHO. Channels 1, 6 and 11 are only on the 2.4GHz band. The 5GHz band has different channels.

inSSIDer is available at metageek.com. If your firewall blocks it, turn off your firewall.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Michael432.

There are also decent apps for Android phones, like the screen clip from WiFi Analyzer.

cmar6: speedtest.net

PKCano: yes, shown many times 5GHz is faster but 2.4GHz has longer range

ASUS has been very good about security updates for even its older routers.  There is also Eric in Canada (AKA “rmerlin’) who deeply studies the ASUS firmware and adds both features and security, many of which are picked up up by ASUS and incorporated into their public updates.

ASUS shares it source code with Eric and considers his work to be so secure and stable that they still honor the factory warranty when his firmware is installed.

BTW ASUS also has dual-WAN models with acousmatic fallback.

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Paul T wrote:

“Win R” means pres the Windows key, next to the Ctrl key, and the “r” key at the same time. This opens the Windows Run box.

Step 6 is wrong, you should type dir prefs.js /s

Attachments need to be added one at a time.
Make a full backup, run my commands and then we’ll see if you need to post the logs.

cheers, Paul

One further note: There is a new version (78) of Thunderbird. Do NOT update to it unless you enjoy fiddling with everything to get it to work right. It does NOT recognize the existing TB profiles or their contents.

Wait until 78 is debugged, and an upgrade is available that updates the existing profiles without destroying their contents. Thunderbird programmers massively rebuilt it to conform to a new framework underlying all Mozilla products and it cannot yet upgrade existing profiles.