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WRT54GL with Tomato 1.28 - Wireless never 100% even when netbook is almost beside it?

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WRT54GL with Tomato 1.28 - Wireless never 100% even when netbook is almost beside it?

is this normal? Should i try DDWRT?

tried changing wireless channels in tomato but most i can get is 70-80% when laptop is very close to it
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What do you mean by never 100%? Is it affecting the transfer rate or the connection drops? I have no problem with my WRT54GL with tomato and my laptop(s).
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Bioflare wrote: What do you mean by never 100%? Is it affecting the transfer rate or the connection drops? I have no problem with my WRT54GL with tomato and my laptop(s).

Tomato Device List will show RSSI and Quality

the further i go away the quality will drop in %

the highest % i can get is 70-80% no higher

I wonder if the wireless hardware on my router is bugged in some way
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How old is the router? Transmitter could be dying.
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That's actually fine. 80% quality is -20dBm RSSI and that's usually about a few feet away. You're not going to see 100% quality or anything.
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Hello- wrote: How old is the router? Transmitter could be dying.

its 3 or 4 years old

it does make a humming sound when wireless kicks in, i've googled WRT54GL humming and results have people saying its normal some hum some dont kinda strange
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now on DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) mini

noticing wireless connection does not fluctuate as much with DDWRT as it did on Tomato

On my netbook running a program called inssider it scans the Wireless signals in neighborhood and gives a graph of their signal and ya not as many dips with DDWRT so far

this isn't my screenshot but its how inssider looks

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who cares about the quality as long your getting max speeds in your entire house?

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