In reply to a post by lawty:

I cannot find anywhere on the Wireless Access Point configuration page where
I can change anything other than channel selection between manual and automatic.

You don't need to go through with any change, you can always back out, and it doesn't really matter anyway - nothing that cannot be reversed happens, but I assume it is set to Automatic. Changing it to Manual will probably refresh the page, with some different options.

It shows an Actual Speed (Mbps) 65but no option to change it

Umm, earlier it was 72Mbps. Is this the TG582N, that I ditched because of its wireless?

I've just thought - I don't want to disconnect my live router, but I can disconnect from it and have a look at the TG GUI. I'm fairly sure there was no way I could get over a 75Mbps connection . That'll be later, or tomorrow.

Is the wireless important though? I've sort of asked before, but not directly.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

... but I assume it is set to Automatic. Changing it to Manual will probably refresh the page, with some different options.

I can understand why manufacturers include an "Auto" channel selection mode, but in my experience it's more nuisance than it's worth.

It only ever seems to select Channel 1 even when nearly everyone else within range is also using it, and on several occasions I've solved a poor wireless performance (for myself and others) simply by changing "Auto" to "Manual" and leaving everything else (including the channel) as it was.

Go figure

My figure is atrocious.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

My figure is atrocious.

Link

I don't wear blonde wigs.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 30-Dec-12 21:36:17)

Paul Mason, 51, weighed 70 stone (444kg) three years ago and was confined to the bed of his bungalow in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Now that's a really atrocious figure... it's the thick end of half a ton

I can live without the wireless if I have to but having put you to so much trouble I would like to optimise wireless.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Check out your laptop card. I lay you odds it is only 150Mbps capable. Like mine.

It all depends on the number of antennas and 'streams' as well as the channel mode (20/40).

A useful chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11n-2009#Data_...

As you can see you can get to 216megabit using 3 streams (3 antennas) in 20mhz mode (single channel) which should suit the majority of people at 2.4 GHz. This is how I run my Draytek 2820Vn as it doesn't support 5 GHz, but it does have three nice aerials on!

In reply to a post by lawty:

I can live without the wireless if I have to but having put you to so much trouble I would like to optimise wireless.

Just had a look at the wireless configuration page of my PN TG582N and as you say, no way to alter anything that might help. As far as I can remember the highest connection speed I've ever had to it was 75Mbps. Which isn't good enough for your FTTC, not even for mine now I have a decent sync speed.

So you have three options:-

Run wired, whcih is best anyway if you are close to the router, which you are;

Put up with the wireless speeds you get;

Get a router with better wireless. I use one of these which I got for just under £24 - they are often under £30, the price tends to change every day.

I don't claim it's a brilliant router, but using the 40MHz (2-channel) it connects me at 150Mbps which is my laptop card's maximum. On InSSIDer it show as offering 300Mbps.