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Author Topic: Thread of noticable improvement  (Read 5799 times)

junkie-xl

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Thread of noticable improvement
« on: August 12, 2013, 08:49:08 AM »

Until the firmware has some more reporting/statistics to quantify improvements I thought we could start a thread to share our 5500 experiences and any noticable improvements we've experienced.

DGL-4500 -> DGL-5500

Wifi coverage has improved dramatically.

RDPing home from my office feels way more responsive, quite surprising because the 4500's gigabit wan is plenty fast enough to handle my 50/10mbit cable connection.
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Re: Thread of noticable improvement
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2013, 02:18:43 PM »

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Re: Thread of noticable improvement
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2013, 01:55:49 PM »

Just FYI, I did some 5Ghz testing yesterday, same room 8-10 feet using my DWA-180 adapter. Initial speeds were ok, however i got a momentary disconnection message in Windows. I canceled the file xfer and re-started again, Speeds increased by 4-5MB. Not sure why speeds were not as fast when I first started. I believe something to do with Bursting had not kicked in then all of a sudden it did. Speeds were Low to mid 20MB's Write and Mid to High 20MBs for Read. I was testing isolated from internet and using a wired LAN Gb connected PC with folder shares.

I saw no other WiFi drops or disconnects after this. I'm thinking of doing some duration testing and watching a movie with a bridge attached to see what I find there. New FW seems pretty good here.
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Re: Thread of noticable improvement
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2013, 07:32:14 AM »

Lost my 5ghz all together today. Just unplugged the router for 10sec and rebooted it. Wireless clients can now see 5 ghz. Second time this has happened, either on FW 1.01 and 1.10. >:(
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Re: Thread of noticable improvement
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2013, 07:39:14 AM »

What MFr devices do you have on 5Ghz?
Anyone else with 5Ghz WiFi near by?
Have you tried turning OFF ALL 5Ghz devices and testing with one as a start then graduating turning on the next device?

I haven't seen this issue on mine...yet. However I only have 3 devices that use 5Ghz, Mac Book Pro, DAP-1533 and DIR-865L.

Lost my 5ghz all together today. Just unplugged the router for 10sec and rebooted it. Wireless clients can now see 5 ghz. Second time this has happened, either on FW 1.01 and 1.10. >:(
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Re: Thread of noticable improvement
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2013, 01:59:41 PM »

Lost my 5ghz all together today. Just unplugged the router for 10sec and rebooted it. Wireless clients can now see 5 ghz. Second time this has happened, either on FW 1.01 and 1.10. >:(

This happened to me once before as well when I was on the 1.01 firmware.  At the time I had an HTC One cell phone and Linksys WUMC710 media bridge connected on the 5GHz band.  I'm the only person using 5GHz in my area as well.   I still only have those two devices on 5GHz and haven't had that issue appear again with the latest 1.10 firmware.  I think they almost have it with the firmware on the 5GHz band since it's way better then the original firmware.
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Re: Thread of noticable improvement
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2013, 02:04:47 PM »

I agree. I found other issues with the 5500 and a DWA-180 that got fixed in v1.10. Keep us posted if you notice any more drops on the 5500. This should not be happening.  ::)
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