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wiredfox14 said:I was just flipping through ABC earlier and I couldn't tell if they were going to air a replay of that Sweden vs. USA game—you know, the one where our guys clinched the Olympic gold.
Well, I actually managed to track down when that game replay was scheduled to air!
I was just sitting there watching ABC, and I couldn't quite figure out if they were planning on airing a replay of that match between Sweden and the US back when our guys clinched the Olympic gold.
Hi there!
I’m currently staying at my parents' place where they have Comcast service running at about 20 mb/s. They’re using a Netgear VMG 5313 router to handle everything.
Since I moved into my own apartment, I didn't feel like signing up for a whole new internet contract, so I decided to try a DIY setup by linking two TP-Link antennas together. Just to give some context on the setup: I have a perfect line of sight with absolutely no obstructions, the distance is roughly 300 meters, and the antenna is mounted about 35 to 40 feet off the ground.
So, here’s the situation: I connected the Netgear router from Comcast to one of the TP-Link antennas using a LAN cable, and that’s where things started getting weird. When I jump into the router settings and configure it as a standard AP (it actually gives you two different types of AP modes to choose from), shouldn't that antenna be delivering the same speeds as the main Comcast router once I connect to it? That just doesn't seem to be happening here. The absolute best I’ve managed to squeeze out is 10 mb/s, and even that was super inconsistent. To make matters worse, if I walk down to the next street and connect my phone to the antenna, the speed drops down to about 3.5 mb/s—which, honestly, is almost a relief compared to what I'm seeing closer up. I can't figure out if the bottleneck is the Comcast router itself, or maybe something is wrong with the specific LAN ports I'm plugging the cable into, because it feels incredibly silly that my speeds on this TP-Link antenna are this pathetic.
I also tried setting up a second antenna in my apartment configured as a repeater, but that’s performing just as poorly; it basically just broadcasts whatever tiny bit of signal it manages to grab from the first antenna, which is just miserable.
Has anyone here dealt with connecting these kinds of antennas before? Because it definitely feels like the issue lies somewhere in the connection between the Comcast router and the TP-Link antenna via the Ethernet cable.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer!