rambomhtri
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Hi, I have 10Mbit/s download and 1Mbit/s upload speeds. My ISP offered me to change for free to Optical Fiber, so I accepted. They came and changed my white modem:
by this Optical Fiber "pack", a modem and a gadget that I think send the modem the optical fiber signal:
So here, my first questions is:
1. Why the new black modem has 2 antennas? Does that mean that it has DUAL band and can work with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz?
2. The power of the signal (how far can I connect to it) is better because is "new" hardware and it has 2 antennas? Or it's probably the same?
3. Now, my REAL issue. I have a laptop, Windows 8.1 x64, and an Intel Wireless-N 7260. I also have a router in one of my rooms, connected to the modem via PLC (power line communication). I can ONLY connect to my modem if I'm in the same modem's room. If I go to the next room (less than 5m) when trying to connect, Windows says that "It can't connect to this network". I have another laptop with Windows 7 and it can connect from that room and from the opposite room of my house with no problem.
So something's wrong with my laptop, laptop's antenna, new modem, drivers... or something.
I've updated also my WiFi card drivers. And if I'm in the router's or modem's room, the connection is great (not always). As the problem could be the new drivers, I've tried out some different versions:
-With the original drivers, it works better, but even sometimes it disconnects.
-With drivers 16.0XXXXX I can connect to my modem farther, but not as far as with I connected to my white. My router's range is shorter.
-With drivers 17.0.2.5, the last ones, my router's range is larger, but I can connect to my modem only from the same room
I don't know how to solve this, and it's driving me crazy.
Thanks!
I've found 2 weird problems:
A) In my router's room, sometimes I connect to it, and the speed goes from 10Mbit/s to 0Mbit/s, slowly, until there's no connection. Reaaaally WTF.
B) When downloading nVIDIA drivers, I get peaks of 30-50Mbit/s, but ookla speed test always give me a solid 10Mbit/s (when the connection is working properly). I don't know if nVIDIA is not showing the right information, although the MB downloaded seem to say that I was actually downloadind at that speed.
by this Optical Fiber "pack", a modem and a gadget that I think send the modem the optical fiber signal:
So here, my first questions is:
1. Why the new black modem has 2 antennas? Does that mean that it has DUAL band and can work with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz?
2. The power of the signal (how far can I connect to it) is better because is "new" hardware and it has 2 antennas? Or it's probably the same?
3. Now, my REAL issue. I have a laptop, Windows 8.1 x64, and an Intel Wireless-N 7260. I also have a router in one of my rooms, connected to the modem via PLC (power line communication). I can ONLY connect to my modem if I'm in the same modem's room. If I go to the next room (less than 5m) when trying to connect, Windows says that "It can't connect to this network". I have another laptop with Windows 7 and it can connect from that room and from the opposite room of my house with no problem.
So something's wrong with my laptop, laptop's antenna, new modem, drivers... or something.
I've updated also my WiFi card drivers. And if I'm in the router's or modem's room, the connection is great (not always). As the problem could be the new drivers, I've tried out some different versions:
-With the original drivers, it works better, but even sometimes it disconnects.
-With drivers 16.0XXXXX I can connect to my modem farther, but not as far as with I connected to my white. My router's range is shorter.
-With drivers 17.0.2.5, the last ones, my router's range is larger, but I can connect to my modem only from the same room
I don't know how to solve this, and it's driving me crazy.
Thanks!
I've found 2 weird problems:
A) In my router's room, sometimes I connect to it, and the speed goes from 10Mbit/s to 0Mbit/s, slowly, until there's no connection. Reaaaally WTF.
B) When downloading nVIDIA drivers, I get peaks of 30-50Mbit/s, but ookla speed test always give me a solid 10Mbit/s (when the connection is working properly). I don't know if nVIDIA is not showing the right information, although the MB downloaded seem to say that I was actually downloadind at that speed.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- CPU
- Intel Quad-core i7-4700MQ, Intel HD 4600
- Motherboard
- Intel HM86 (Lynx Point)
- Memory
- x1 slot 8GB RAM DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVIDIA GT 755M 2GB GDDR5
- Screen Resolution
- 15.6" 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1TB 5400rpm + 24GB SSD M.2 cache
- Other Info
- Intel Wireless-N 7260