Wireless Router Speed Help

[JohnnyM]

Old setup:

Linksys WRT54GS with PC, printer, and Vonage all wired and then the wireles. Wired speeds are fine at around 18-20mbps, wireless around 6mbps.

Then I tried:

D-Link DIR-625 instead, with the WRT54GS (running dd-wrt firmware) used as a wireless bridge for my wii/xbox

This worked ok, and my wireless speeds were up to about 12-15mbps through the D-Link. But I had Vonage problems (which is why I ditched this router before IIRC) and sometimes some wireless issues.

Well now I had this idea:

Ditch the bridge, use my Linksys, and then hook the D-Link up to one of the ethernet ports and let the D-Link control my wireless devices. Well it was easy enough to do this, but my wireless speeds are again down to around 6mbps. I figured having the D-Link wired to the Linksys would let the D-Link run as before with good wireless speeds.

Any ideas?

I have set the QOS on my Linksys to "exempt" for the ethernet port and no improvement. Upload speeds are not affected much (2.8mbps wired, 2.5mbps wireless)

 

[BigWill]

not trying to threadjack: I have a linksys wireless router hooked to a cable modem. When the phone is in use (cordless phone AT&T braanded) the wireless cuts out.

 

[Clarence Iba]

Get rid of the 2.4 mhz cordless phone. They're on virtually the same frequency.

 

[JohnnyM]

Yeah I got a 5.8gHz phone for that reason a few years ago.

 

[spidey69]

DD-WRT is running an old Belkin router in bridge mode for me without issue. There are other firmware 'upgrade hacks' available. From what I could gather there are a few choices out there, maybe try another one. This is one that sounded promising , but I didn't look at since DD-WRT worked out for me.

Wikipedia Link Tomato Firmware

 

[wherzwaldo]

DD-WRT and Tomato are both solid firmwares; I use both in different applications. Tomato is a little simpler to install (1 ROM flash vs. 2 flashes for DD-WRT) but I think DD-WRT has more features.

 

[Dionysus]

Is your cable/DSL modem sitting near your router? I read something yesterday about speeds improving by just moving the two devices a few feet away from each other. I don't know how this helps but several people on the forum said it worked for them.