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Review on πŸ“Ά ALFA R36A Portable Wireless 802.11n WiFi USB Router: Ideal for AWUS036NH & AWUS036NEH R36 by Jeff Wells

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great router but not easy to set up to get the best throughput!

Hello friends, here are some tips for tuning Alfa R36A with Alfa AWUS036NH.1. Change the channel of your new Wi-Fi network. Example: The original Wi-Fi is channel 1 and your new Wi-Fi must be on channel 6 or 11.2. Separate the Alfa R36A from the Alfa AWUS036NH.3 by about 1.5 meters. Disable lower network modes, I configure the source to use mixed 802.11g, 802.11n. (Bandwidth is better). Disable 802.11b.4. Uses App Wifi Analyzer to find less congested frequencies. Other networks exist.! You don't get 100% throughput of the original Wi-Fi because you're using the same disk space. Consider the following: 802.11a: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54 Mbps, 5 GHz. 802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps, 2.4 GHz. 802.11g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 54 Mbps, 2.4 GHz. 802.11n: 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54Mbps, 2.4GHz, 5GHz.802.11ac: 200Mbps, 400Mbps, 433Mbps, 600Mbps, 867Mbps, 5GHz. I use this configuration to get my 10Mbps using Alfa and an antenna to connect to source wifi. You can see the difference between 2.4GHz WiFi and 5GHz WiFi, 2.4GHz WiFi is congested.

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