CLASYS
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First time poster, but long-term fan of SNB!
I have an odd question, but it should fit well with what people discuss here:
I have a "split" system:
We live in a 3-level townhouse situation and i really can't start bashing any walls!
My needs for the downstairs started with the days of Max-G devices from USR added in PCMCIA slots and plugged into the buss foe desktops. The downstairs network has grown a bit with at least two laptops in different areas and a table filled with as many as three desktop machines, all of which are wired together now into a 10/100/1000 smart bridge.
[The cable modem and router are on the second floor, moved as close to the center of the place front-to-back as is practical Occasionally a single laptop is used on the upper level and I get a 2.4 GHz connection up there acceptably, but not 5 GHz.]
In the olden days, I would drop a long piece of CAT-6 wire down the stairwell, but this is of course not only impractical but is not favored by the "powers that be" [if you get my drift].
I then upgraded to a TEW-800 Ethernet bridge and things were a lot better. Still better when I got an R6300 and I thought all was great! AC to AC gets me faster than 10/100 wired!
But I have a problem: The Trendnet bridge seems to crap out at the craziest times I see no pattern other than when it goes, expect 5-6 more times over the next few days. Then months go by without any other problems. The location is unwieldy [for best antenna placement] so I added a remote-controlled AC switch to power it down and back up when this happens. [The lone laptop allows me to reboot the R6300 if power cycling the TEW isn't enough [that has happened only 3 times].
My question: I see on ebay so many people selling the R6300V2 dirt cheap. [I think it's some sort of factory reburb deal wide-spread.]
Would it make sense to get another R6300 and use one in bridge mode and "retire" the Trendnet flaky beast?
Thanks in advance.
cjl
I have an odd question, but it should fit well with what people discuss here:
I have a "split" system:
We live in a 3-level townhouse situation and i really can't start bashing any walls!
My needs for the downstairs started with the days of Max-G devices from USR added in PCMCIA slots and plugged into the buss foe desktops. The downstairs network has grown a bit with at least two laptops in different areas and a table filled with as many as three desktop machines, all of which are wired together now into a 10/100/1000 smart bridge.
[The cable modem and router are on the second floor, moved as close to the center of the place front-to-back as is practical Occasionally a single laptop is used on the upper level and I get a 2.4 GHz connection up there acceptably, but not 5 GHz.]
In the olden days, I would drop a long piece of CAT-6 wire down the stairwell, but this is of course not only impractical but is not favored by the "powers that be" [if you get my drift].
I then upgraded to a TEW-800 Ethernet bridge and things were a lot better. Still better when I got an R6300 and I thought all was great! AC to AC gets me faster than 10/100 wired!
But I have a problem: The Trendnet bridge seems to crap out at the craziest times I see no pattern other than when it goes, expect 5-6 more times over the next few days. Then months go by without any other problems. The location is unwieldy [for best antenna placement] so I added a remote-controlled AC switch to power it down and back up when this happens. [The lone laptop allows me to reboot the R6300 if power cycling the TEW isn't enough [that has happened only 3 times].
My question: I see on ebay so many people selling the R6300V2 dirt cheap. [I think it's some sort of factory reburb deal wide-spread.]
Would it make sense to get another R6300 and use one in bridge mode and "retire" the Trendnet flaky beast?
Thanks in advance.
cjl
