Wireless Signal Strength on Qute v1

Posted by: Mr Paws on 07 August 2014

Hi to all,

I'm doing a bit of decorating at the moment so my Qute has been moved to another part of my house. This means a wireless connection only for now so set the wireless up and had a scroll through the front screen menu when I came across this quality which goes up and down a fair bit and I presume this is the signal strength / quality so I was wondering which is a good quality connection ? The lowest I've seen is 43 and the highest 67.

Picture Below.

cheers.

Posted on: 08 August 2014 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Hi quality is usually separate from signal strength. A low quality against a high signal strength usually indicates radio frequency interference.

However there are many variables with wifi... In fact when you understand what it has to do under the cover its pretty impressive it works at all

I think the only test is to stream at the maximum data rate you require and see if you get the throughput without dropouts ... the lesser quality signals have a lower throughput, but sharing spectrum with other wifi networks will lower effective throughput even though signal strength and quality is high.

Simon

Posted on: 08 August 2014 by Mr Paws

Hello Simon thanks for your reply Sir.

I've had some issues with my Wi-Fi dropping out so I had a look at how many wireless networks are broadcasting and I was astounded to find twelve which is a lot more than the last time I checked so I changed the channel on my Netgear Router.

The other thing is I need another router with more ports say around 8 Ports with a switch presume?

Regards,

Mike..

Posted on: 08 August 2014 by Simon-in-Suffolk

yes that would normally be an 8 port switch.

On Wifi, changing the channels often doesn't provide a major advantage unless by using a tool you can see the traffic / interference on the channels at your location and the environment is quite static. Channels are designed to and do overlap, and new wifi standards can use multiple channels to provide greater throughput..

The wifi standards are designed for everyone to share largely the same bandwidth - but the the busier the bandwidth is with people trying to grab little slots of bandwidth - the slower the effective throughput becomes.

Simon

Posted on: 08 August 2014 by Mike-B

Mr Paws, I have a free www prog on my PC that shows my local area traffic

Search www for MetaGeek "inSSIDer"

I can see most of the neighbours are on channels 6, 9 & 11, so I have my 2.4GHz band set to ch1

No one on 5GHz band (yet) except me so have no need to move that channel.

Posted on: 08 August 2014 by Mr Paws

Thanks Simon & Mike B I will download that programme and maybe go to 5Ghz.

I was was wondering whether I need to keep my old Netgear (Virgin) Router / SuperHub in Modem mode and just plug the new router into the old router? I know I need to keep the rather lumpy Superhub. I'm sure there must be an 8 Port Wireless Router with a switch on ? I'm not too knowledgeable regarding routers so I'll have look on the web and see whats out there.

Kindest Regards,

Mike..

Posted on: 11 August 2014 by djh1697

Originally Posted by Mr Paws:

I was was wondering whether I need to keep my old Netgear (Virgin) Router / SuperHub in Modem mode and just plug the new router into the old router?

Hi Mr Paws, I had all sorts of issues using a Virgin Superhub, with the Uniti and Simpleaudio room player. I have now got a netgear WNR2000 wireless point/hub (other products are available) this works fine with the Superhub in modem mode.