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This is probably more of a first world problem, but I've been seeing more and and more internet connection issues over the past couple of months at home. This past week it got to the point my connection up at the shop was pretty much non-working. I spent a few nights last week doing trouble shooting, changing settings, and was able to get it to work temporarily.
I finally decided that my wifi router at the house was the culprit. When I purchased it about 3 years ago, it nearly doubled my download speed, with it's large 300 MHz processor. Well over the last 3 years we've added several devices in our house that use wifi. What I finally determined after turning many of those devices off, is that the cpu was getting maxed out on the router as it was stable when only a couple were turned on and using wifi.
So late last week I ordered a new router. The new one has a 1 Ghz dual processor, quite a bit more speed than the old one, this made a huge difference. Prior we were only getting about 24 Mbps download, that speed has more than doubled my download speed, sometimes getting up to 75 Mbps download on the same cable connection/box.
I'm not posting this to brag, was just an eye opener of what adding a new device here and there was doing to my network infrastructure.
I finally decided that my wifi router at the house was the culprit. When I purchased it about 3 years ago, it nearly doubled my download speed, with it's large 300 MHz processor. Well over the last 3 years we've added several devices in our house that use wifi. What I finally determined after turning many of those devices off, is that the cpu was getting maxed out on the router as it was stable when only a couple were turned on and using wifi.
So late last week I ordered a new router. The new one has a 1 Ghz dual processor, quite a bit more speed than the old one, this made a huge difference. Prior we were only getting about 24 Mbps download, that speed has more than doubled my download speed, sometimes getting up to 75 Mbps download on the same cable connection/box.
I'm not posting this to brag, was just an eye opener of what adding a new device here and there was doing to my network infrastructure.