Hi
What is the maximum WIFI speed supported by the HDR-FOX T2.
Using a 'n' rated dongle the max I can get is 54meg.
I have tried 3 WIFI routers.
Pete

That sounds typical of what others are reporting and if the actual transfer speed is a reasonable fraction of the nominal connection speed should be fast enough. HD streaming requires about 11Mb/s. You might try http://hummy.tv/forum/ and ask in theCustomised Firmware section if it would be possible to get a faster connection.

I generally get 65meg, once is was 72meg.

Hi All I get 135.0Mbps with a N dongle and a N router with the hdr fox t2 and 150.0mbps
with the laptop

mike

Make and model of dongle and router please?

Apologies if this comes over as patronising but...

You do have an N mode router don't you? And if you do is it set to N mode? I have seen routers where you can restrict them to B, G or N mode only or combinations of the three.

Getting 54Mb does sound like one end or the other is stuck in G mode.

the router is a netgear DGN-1000 and the dongle is EDIMAX EW-7711uan
if i put in a b/g dongel i get 54mbps

hope this is of help

Mike

Edimax EW7711UTn - dongle
Billion 7700n is the latest router.
Pete

Edimax EW-7711UTn dongle
Billion 7700n router
Last edited by pdc95 : 26-04-2012 at 12:10

That does suggest you should be getting N mode speeds out of the kit.

Which makes me wonder if the config of either the router or the dongle is set to G mode only as you are only getting 54Mb/s out of it.

Alternatively do you have anything else WiFi that may be G mode only which might be slowing the whole lot down to G mode speeds?

Might be a neighbour with the same router settings. Though as already posted does sound like it's G limited somehow

Check for local WiFi traffic

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/

My Android tablet VX610W will log on to the same router @ 150Meg
So the router is working in n mode ?

Is that from the same location as the dongle. Weak reception spots will produce much lower speeds. This can vary considerably even in the same room.

Within 1 foot ?

Not good enough, the dongle is presumably behind a TV and shielded by other kit. Can you wire a temporary cat 5 cable back to the router or try a pair of homeplug adaptors. I get the full cat5 speed using a pair of these to bridge a gap in my wired network.

Using inSSIDer and the same Edimax dongle on my PC shows my Billion 7700n SID as capable of 300Meg

No the dongle is in the front USB slot and the Tablet is in front of it.
The dongle is nearer to the router than the Tablet.

Running a CAT5 cable back to the router provides a LAN connection with no speed shown as it is at full WAN speed.

This is not WIFI this is CAT5 bridged by wireless adapters.
Not the same thing at all !
Thanks

And that's different how Connection of a network by wireless is WiFi. A single wireless bridge will give you a direct LAN connection back to your router.

Within the pure definition it is WIFI.
However it is not using the WIFI interface of the router or the WIFI interface of the HDR-FAxT2.
You are trying to compare apples and oranges

The capability of the HDR-FOX T2 to stream data will be down to the cpu capability and whatever it's doing at the time (it will also depend on the priority the cpu allocates to the lan port).

Provided it's capable of keeping up with a HD Video stream apart from it transferring file faster when it will produce faster faster file transfers, why does it matter. How quickly does it copy a file over the wi-fi link to your laptop compared to using a direct cable connection ?

It doesn't have a WiFi interface it merely provides software support for a specific chipset used in a wifi dongle. It's the dongle that provides the WiFi capability.

Not sure why you think it merely provides a link it presumably accesses your router direct for which you will have provided the required WEP key. Normally that's the only place in a network capable of working with wi-fi unless you set up a peer to peer network.

What other than the router have you on your network capable of receiving a wireless network signal ? Have you some sort of wireless network extender fitted ?

Just some general observations on Netgear Routers (not the DGN1000 but gathered from the DGN2000 and DGN2200 routers) and getting the best wireless 'N' speeds out of them.

You need to make sure that the router's wireless settings are set for the maximum wireless 'N' speed offered by the router. (often they're set by default to a lower speed, presumably for compatibility reasons.)

The wireless encryption needs to be set to WPA2 (AES).

They always seems to work best on channel 6. (Possibly a holdover from Netgear's own 108MB/s wireless 'standard' before wireless 'N' came along?)