Posted on 03/07/2016 4:59:53 PM PST by raybbr
A while back ATT sold out their CT business to Frontier. It was awful for a while. It took me almost a year to get them to bump me up to 6000 Kbps on my DSL line.
It has gotten better and the price is half what I was paying ATT.
I have a modem/router from them (Netgear 7550) and am using that. When I had ATT I bought a Netgear N600 DGND3700v2 Modem/Router and it worked pretty well.
Lately (well for the past three months) I have been losing connection to the internet on several devices. For example: I'll be watching "Covert Affairs" on Amazon Prime on my Kindle and in the middle of the show it will go into loading mode and stop playing. I'll have to shut off the wireless on the Kindle turn it back on a reacquire an IP address and it'll work. For a while. It could be five minutes, ten minutes or a half hour. This happens on laptops, the Smart TV and even my son's iPod. I have to reboot the router once a laptop loses the connection. Turning it off/on doesn't reconnect.
I have made several calls to Frontier and the serviceman has come out twice. I got this Modem/Router about three months ago.
I called yesterday and the tech service guy (to Frontier's credit I've never spoken to anyone in service who had a foreign accent) said I need a router with N600 or higher because the various devices are battling for bandwidth from the router. I have no idea what the 7550 is capable of since there is nothing available that I can find that tells me what it is.
What I'd like to do, if possible, is connect the N600 Netgear to the 7550 and use that, or even both, as wireless routers. Apparently the way Frontier packets their signal requires the 7550 to be used as the modem. At least that's the way the guy explained it as I recall.
Is there a way to connect the N600 to the 7550 and use the N600, which is dual band for my wireless network?
Thanks in advance.
See if you can still get their x.25 service and bond two DLCI using robbed bit....
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No! You gotta keep ‘em separated!
Set the first router IP to 192.168.3.1 and the second router to 192.168.1.1...then piggy back them...worked for me on a Cisco e4200 and a Netgear router. Now I have 4 different wireless networks.
Might have interference on your WiFi, are you getting a good signal? Are you in a rural area, like no neighbors close by or suburban/urban? Just curious because adding another router/wifi to an existing router is just going to “slow things down a little more”
You might try black duct tape. I tried the regular grey stuff and it didn’t work.
might want to check this out.
http://www.speedguide.net/faq/what-is-the-best-wireless-channel-to-use-346
not much...good luck
:-)
I have 20+ network devices spread out and attached and still get 100 Mbps downstream...on Comcast no less.
Just went through something like this with my internet service. Turns out the line leading to my house was damaged and would only work intermittently. They ran a new line and now I’m back on the Information Superhighway!
I used to have daily (or multiple times daily) internet issues that required me to restart my WiFi rounter, cable modem, or both. One of the things that I think was contributing to (or causing) the issues was the growing number of WiFi devices around the house - Kindle, iPads, iPhones, laptop, Win10 tablet, SmartTV, DirecTV receiver, Roku box, etc.
My guess was that, to conserve power, these devices would either sleep, or shut down their WiFi adapters. Then, when waking or trying to hit the internet again, they would assume their last IP address was still theirs to use. Instead, another device looking for a connection might have been assigned that address by the router, and caused a conflict.
So I decided to implement “address reservation” through my router. I identified each devices WiFi adapter MAC address, and assigned an IP address to it. That way, every time it calls for the internet, it’s always getting the same address, and always assured that no other device has assumed it.
That eliminated about 90% of the issues, but I still have to do an occasional reboot. These seem to happen after one of my kids is at the house with one of their Macbooks. Might be totally unrelated to the Macbook - could be a site they visit (Facebook, and who knows what else).
To answer your question about linking the 2 routers, if you don’t need 2 WiFi signals, then just disable WiFi on one of them (leaving it as a router and DHCP server only). For the other, turn off DHCP and let it get an address from the first router. Any device that connects to that WiFi access point can get a network IP from the the first router.
You could try different channels, but you probably already have.
I’ve never thought about networking that way. Thanks for the tip. I am fine with what I have here. It never hurts to get new ideas.
Can you disable the modem functionality of the N600 Netgear?
Tried that, too. No good.
To answer your question about linking the 2 routers, if you don’t need 2 WiFi signals, then just disable WiFi on one of them (leaving it as a router and DHCP server only). For the other, turn off DHCP and let it get an address from the first router. Any device that connects to that WiFi access point can get a network IP from the the first router.
How would you connect the two?
Tried several channels. So far 6 and 11 seem the best but I still get the problem.
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