I have RB433 with R52 802.11 b/g wifi card for my home LAN. My ISP gives me new high speed broadband for my home. Till now I had 4/0,5 Mbps adsl link, and now I have 100/20 Mbps. Till now ma R52 was enough but with this new 100/20 Mbps speed my R52 now is a bottleneck for my wifi laptops that have 802.11 n adapters. With R52 I can achieve in practice approx. 15/13 Mbps wifi speed.
Can someone please help me to chose if it would be valuable for me to invest in new R52HN card, or something else, to achieve real wifi speed near 100/20 Mbps. Is this possible?
Can RB433 (cpu 300 MHz) achieve this level of wifi speed?
Can I combine somehow my existing R52 card with some new card to achieve best results or R52 would become obsolete in that new scenarion with 802.11 n standard?
Thank you very much in advance, for every input. Any suggestion is appreciated.
You can switch to 40MHz channel to get more throughput from your R52 card but changing to R52n would be definitely better when you want to keep your existing RB.. Accroding to my tests, you can get around 50Mbps from 20Mhz channel using 2 chains (2 antennas). Of course it depends if your laptop has single or MIMO antennas, however with using 40MHz and clean channel without any interference, you should be able to utilize the maximum of your RB433 LAN ports (only 100Mbps) so in reality you should get something around 90Mbps without any problem.
Inox thank you on your suggestion!
Between RB951G-2HnD vs RB951G-2HnD what is better for my? I have local hosue network with HTPC and NAS on LAN, and three laptops, tablet and two mobile phones on Wifi. Price difference is not so much. Could I achieve full 100Mbps with RB951G-2HnD - without gigabit ethernet thru my ISP?
What could be added values if I buy RB951G-2HnD in comaparision to RB951G-2HnD
lucky79 thank you also very much on your suggestions!
I tried to switch to 40MHz turbo in RB433 but then none of my laptops (windows 7, win XP) nor mobile phones (symbian, android) do not see my wifi network?
This is weird, sometimes the wireless card in the laptops have it disabled and you need to go to driver setting and enable use of 20/40MHz. Mobile phones also should not have any issue with it as its standard. My iPhone 4S and Galaxy SIII did not have any issues as far as I remember.. What is your configuration? Btw it should just double the current throughput so my guess is you should get something around 30-40Mbps. Using R52n card or the 951 would be much better of course.
Is the internet connection gigabit capable or just 100Mbps? RB433 is only 100Mbps which has real througput limit somewhere around 96Mbps… so Gigabit wont bring any real difference if you have just 100Mbps link from your provider. But you never know, I would go for the gigabit RB951G
In the wifi adapter (Intel centrino N-6205) settings on my laptop there are advance settings for channel width but only for 802.11n. There is no mention for channel width for b/g??
From what I can see on the net 40Mhz is only for n? I am confused.
Internet is 100/20 Mbps (not gigabit) and on LAN i have in reality approx 94/20 Mbps, but on wifi I have only 14/14 Mbps.
Will I get more wifi speed with buying R52n new adapter with standard mikrotik small black antena or with buying RB951G-2HnD?
Hmm I have to say I am not exactly sure about this, maybe 40MHz implementation is different in A and N products.. Its true that I have tested with N card, stopped using R52 some time ago…
Of course you will get more speed either with 40MHz channel or using dual chains which would need you to buy another antenna. But I would say that price of R52n is just a little lower than RB951G-2HnD which already has built-in MIMO (two) antennas, faster CPU than your RB433 and gigabit LAN ports.