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Poor WiFi reception and speed with with new routers
Hi, All-- I have had this WNDR4500v3 router for several years, and it has great reception from nearly anywhere on my property, but of course, it is limited to "N" speeds . . . A couple of yea...
So 1 router doesn't have issues. All the other ones do.
And you think its because they have external antennas.
When all the new stuff doesn't work properly but a device that was originally released in 2011, it makes me think its just old/slow enough that its not recognizing the modem/gateway dropping.
What modem/gateway do you have?
what speeds do you pay for?
You keep talking about speed, when the topic is about connectivity . . . if you can't connect or remain connected to your WiFi Router in AP mode, you won't get ANY speed! That's what is happening here!! My devices do not remain connected to any of these modern routers!!
Even something as simple as a DirecTV HR54-700!! Or, my Ring devices!!
If you read my original post, you would have seen that I have a Cisco RV340W Dual-WAN router as my Gateway . . . and no, the wireless range on it can't compare to the WNDR4500v3's range. Both of my WAN connections are 1Gbps, but as stated above, that is irrelevant!
The fact that this does not occur on any of my Legacy, 802.11N routers that are set as Access Points, but all of which have no external antennas tells me that there is a problem with that type of design . . .
I'm done here. Mods, please delete this thread.