Ooooo cheap you say....now youve perked my interest :-) I have one of the tiny adaptors in my toolkit just incase and Ive had to use it a couple of times when Ive had issues with the inbuilt wifi or the inbuilt wifi spec isnt as high as an external one would be. I find the external ones better for connecting to a mesh system rather than a traditional wifi service. Thanks for the video Mike and Kath and thanks for the GRAPHS !!!!!!! :-)
Good reminder of what needs doing to ensure wifi performs well and adding wifi to pc if wired not available. On a similar topic have you done a review on bluetooth dongles? Last week I helped my friends clean and rehouse a pc (thick with grime so your live stream came in handy lol) but for ease I moved my dongles to their pc case and back a few times. Now I find my seenda keyboard stutters in games and misses the odd letter in word. Reset in device manager and checked updates but only after a final reboot did it seemed to work properly! Thanks for sharing Mike and Kath👍
yeah bluetooth protocols can easily get messed up just by moving to another usb port. I sometimes go into hidden devices and delete all the bluetooth devices and start over
Nice informative video,thanks Mike. TP Link is my go to for networking kit as it’s great bang for buck. However the support channels from TPLink are painful to use, I normally end up saying “you do know you are reading the wrong script for my product, can’t you just give me the RMA number?”
I bought an ax210 intel chipset wifi card and that make a huge difference in my case. Now looking for another one to replace the ax200 in my x570 Tomahawk. They both use an antenna 6 feet away from the computer. The ax210 is almost 50 to 100 megabits faster in download speed than the ax200. Both antenna are on the same shelf. Usb adapter simply would not work reliaby in my basement.
Mike, I noticed in the UK, Virgin has a £55 plan with 600Mbps download and 40Mbps upload …noice🤩😉🤯! Internet here in Australia 🇦🇺 is expensive FTTC $90AUD (including 10% GST … local taxes) for 100Mbps download and 40Mbps upload 🤕 which is my current internet plan. It’s about $120AUD for 200Mbps download and 20-40Mbps upload. Also 50Mbps download and 10-20 Mbps upload for roughly $65-70 AUD …. All pricing includes 10% taxes.
For 2.4GHz, there are THREE incompatible "channel plans". The most common: 1, 6, 11 - Three totally non overlapping for the US 1-11 allocation 2. The optimal UK/EU of 1, 5, 9, 13 - Four edge scraping channels, or two wide channels 3. The US compromise plan, 1, 4, 7, 11 ... 3 apart is not ideal. For 5GHz, things get more complicated due to DFS (radar avoidance) rules. 36, 40, 44, 48 are the only non-DFS channels, and are every device's default, making 4 narrow, 2 wide or 1 ultra wide channel(s) in total. 52-64 the other half of the low set, and 100-144 are often ignored, as devices may need an additional setting to operate on the DFS required channels. The final high group 149-177 are reserved for outdoor point to point.
I've done exactly this, you just run an ethernet cable to the first mesh hub. Yeah you can put the router into modem only mode, but it's not prerequisite.
Which one of these would be optimal for gaming with a lot of distance between you and your router/modem. I got the nano150 one and it’s really slow because of how far I am from my router
The amount of people who slate a super fast broadband provider, say Virgin Media, because "the wifi is rubbish" on my estate's FB group always makes be laugh...always ends up being a budget 9 year old laptop and they wonder why the signal strength isn't great...
Ooooo cheap you say....now youve perked my interest :-) I have one of the tiny adaptors in my toolkit just incase and Ive had to use it a couple of times when Ive had issues with the inbuilt wifi or the inbuilt wifi spec isnt as high as an external one would be. I find the external ones better for connecting to a mesh system rather than a traditional wifi service. Thanks for the video Mike and Kath and thanks for the GRAPHS !!!!!!! :-)
lol bob and his graph addiction, i need to learn how to make more interesting graphs, that is my mission
Good reminder of what needs doing to ensure wifi performs well and adding wifi to pc if wired not available. On a similar topic have you done a review on bluetooth dongles? Last week I helped my friends clean and rehouse a pc (thick with grime so your live stream came in handy lol) but for ease I moved my dongles to their pc case and back a few times. Now I find my seenda keyboard stutters in games and misses the odd letter in word. Reset in device manager and checked updates but only after a final reboot did it seemed to work properly! Thanks for sharing Mike and Kath👍
yeah bluetooth protocols can easily get messed up just by moving to another usb port. I sometimes go into hidden devices and delete all the bluetooth devices and start over
@@mikesunboxing Hadn't heard of that so if problem recurs will check. So far working okay now but thanks for advice Mike👍
@@Senrab46 No problem :-)
I increased the speed of my pc Internet by buying a USB extension so its not closer to front panel and io panel and that made a huge difference
yes that is a great idea and works very well for very little cost
Nice informative video,thanks Mike. TP Link is my go to for networking kit as it’s great bang for buck. However the support channels from TPLink are painful to use, I normally end up saying “you do know you are reading the wrong script for my product, can’t you just give me the RMA number?”
Lol 😂 yeah I can imagine
I bought an ax210 intel chipset wifi card and that make a huge difference in my case. Now looking for another one to replace the ax200 in my x570 Tomahawk. They both use an antenna 6 feet away from the computer. The ax210 is almost 50 to 100 megabits faster in download speed than the ax200. Both antenna are on the same shelf. Usb adapter simply would not work reliaby in my basement.
that is quite the improvement
Helpful as always! Thanks.
Thanks for watching
Nice info. but i only use cable. because the German internet is the Wurst 😛
lol i see what you did there
I built myself a 5G dipole wifi antenna for my PC that works pretty well. There are quite a few DIY videos on YT if anyone cares to give it a try.
good idea, need all the help we can get in brick and mortar houses
Mike, I noticed in the UK, Virgin has a £55 plan with 600Mbps download and 40Mbps upload …noice🤩😉🤯! Internet here in Australia 🇦🇺 is expensive FTTC $90AUD (including 10% GST … local taxes) for 100Mbps download and 40Mbps upload 🤕 which is my current internet plan. It’s about $120AUD for 200Mbps download and 20-40Mbps upload. Also 50Mbps download and 10-20 Mbps upload for roughly $65-70 AUD …. All pricing includes 10% taxes.
i have that plan 👍it was an upgrade that was offered when i told them i was leaving
The tp link wifi adapter is really good connects to 5g networks I upgraded to WiFi 6e now
yeah i quite like the brand, seems good value for money
For 2.4GHz, there are THREE incompatible "channel plans".
The most common: 1, 6, 11 - Three totally non overlapping for the US 1-11 allocation
2. The optimal UK/EU of 1, 5, 9, 13 - Four edge scraping channels, or two wide channels
3. The US compromise plan, 1, 4, 7, 11 ... 3 apart is not ideal.
For 5GHz, things get more complicated due to DFS (radar avoidance) rules.
36, 40, 44, 48 are the only non-DFS channels, and are every device's default, making 4 narrow, 2 wide or 1 ultra wide channel(s) in total.
52-64 the other half of the low set, and 100-144 are often ignored, as devices may need an additional setting to operate on the DFS required channels. The final high group 149-177 are reserved for outdoor point to point.
you might have to come round and setup my ultimate network
Good info, I've got vm 200mb no mesh yet, but I'm going to get a system, did you put the hub In modem only mode?
I've done exactly this, you just run an ethernet cable to the first mesh hub. Yeah you can put the router into modem only mode, but it's not prerequisite.
Yes that’s right
@@cptwhite thanks for the info very useful 👍
I'd say the most important aspect to consider is buffer bloat.
i have not heard of that. i'll look into it
Which one of these would be optimal for gaming with a lot of distance between you and your router/modem. I got the nano150 one and it’s really slow because of how far I am from my router
something with a decent antenna for sure, the better the signal the better and more consistant the speeds
The amount of people who slate a super fast broadband provider, say Virgin Media, because "the wifi is rubbish" on my estate's FB group always makes be laugh...always ends up being a budget 9 year old laptop and they wonder why the signal strength isn't great...
yeah i hear that a lot
Those "analyser" charts look bad... so many signals on same channel... Oh dear. Take AUTO off and select channel manually!
yeah i am mapping out the neighbours wifi bands in the various mesh locations and trying to get the clearest bands