Asus RT-AC68U Dual Band Wireless AC1900 Gigabyte Router

[Guess]

Bought this Router from eBay during the Clickmore promotion. Paid $ 176.oo

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262244708589

I want to be able to use WiFi from anywhere in my home. Exetel supplied modem has a very short wireless range.

 

[foxidrive]

That looks neat!

I bought something very similar Guess just 2 days ago, and they even look very similar. MSY had one in the specials email for $159

http://www.trustedreviews.com/tp-link-archer-c9-ac1900-review

I set it up last night and it's working well. Does yours have an interface similar to this one?

I wonder if they use the same guts and only change minor things...

 

[misi]

Exetel supplied modem has a very short wireless range.

Just like mine from Telstra.
Strange animal...Walking out to the garden through the laundry door, it stops working.
Reaching the street: It works!

 

[Guess]

It arrived today. Aus Post showed it arriving on monday with their tracking estimate.

Now I have to figure out how to run it from my modem. I guess I'd use bridge mode from Modem to router, just worried if that will switch off the phone/VoIP connections on the modem. I need both , 1 for phone and 1 for Fax.
Never done a separate Modem / Router setup before..
I hope I have not bought something that will stuff up the network..
It's still in the box foxi.. Will try to work it out tomorrow night.

 

[misi]

****PLEASE NOTE: THIS PRODUCT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 'FTTN' NBN CONNECTIONS****

I guess I'd use bridge mode from Modem to router, just worried if that will switch off the phone/VoIP connections on the modem. I need both , 1 for phone and 1 for Fax.

If I remember correctly than you just have to plug it in into a free Ethernet port.
Nothing happens to your phone/VoIP/

 

[foxidrive]

Strange animal...Walking out to the garden through the laundry door, it stops working.
Reaching the street: It works!

It would seem that's the way your radio signal propagates in that area, misi.

Some metal fixtures in that area reflect the signal, or different signal paths meet and null part of the signal = not enuff for misi's gadget.

If I remember correctly than you just have to plug it in into a free Ethernet port.

That's likely I reckon too.

My cable modem does phone through the cable and in bridge mode the phone still works.

Any external VOIP adapter will be the same when plugged into the ethernet from the router, though port forwarding might need to be setup. I did that here.

 

[foxidrive]

I had a thought misi - is it your mobile phone that stops in the laundry and works in the street?
Could it be switching to 3G wireless internet at that point?

 

[misi]

I had a thought misi - is it your mobile phone that stops in the laundry and works in the street?

Yes, it's my mobile.

Could it be switching to 3G wireless internet at that point?

No, because data is off most of the time.

The reason is:

Some metal fixtures in that area reflect the signal, or different signal paths meet and null part of the signal = not enuff for misi's gadget.

That metal fixture is probably my security door.

 

[foxidrive]

No, because data is off most of the time.

That's how I use mine too. It was just a possibility that needed to be considered from my end, coz I can't tell from here.

I wonder if you can tie open the security door and then see how the mobile reacts as you walk through. Do you stream a radio station from the internet while walking through there and it cuts out?

 

[misi]

I wonder if you can tie open the security door and then see how the mobile reacts as you walk through. Do you stream a radio station from the internet while walking through there and it cuts out?

Usually it happens when I talk to someone on the phone using VoIP.
Going to the door while talking for having a cigarette and it cuts off.

 

[Guess]

Going to the door while talking for having a cigarette and it cuts off.

Smoking is bad for your phones health !

 

[foxidrive]

Usually it happens when I talk to someone on the phone using VoIP.
Going to the door while talking for having a cigarette and it cuts off.

Ahh, I see. It would be interesting to see if streaming a radio station actually works in that spot as the issue could be with bandwidth in the upstream while talking on voip.

I'm thinking about the process where Wireless tends to scale down in speed when there are issues, and it may be enough to stream a music channel but not enough to do the send-and-receive that the voip data needs and keep it functioning.