Wireless network issue please help?

[Buffalobiian]

is there something important I should know before I start or?hopefully I'm not giving to much information away through posting a picture of my internet status hope I can't get hacked or something haha just getting a little paranoid.

Nah, the only thing that was really important on there to get you hacked would have been your IP. But if your ISP gives you a dynamic IP then it changes all the time anyway. And frankly, it's more about how your router deals with attacks more so than keeping your IP secret (because it's not that hard to get it if you actually tried). Visit https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 if you really are paranoid and want to see how your home router reacts to attacks.

I deleted the pic anyway now.

On the topic of internet speed, your LINE is actually faster than mine. You've got a theoretical download maximum of 1375KB/s, and an upload in excess of 100KB/s. It might be your wireless signal throughput that's holding your back, or some torrent settings.

When this is all done, to check the wireless throughput, just connect one computer via ethernet to the Master Router (when this is all setup) and connect your laptop wirelessly to your Repeater. After that, just transfer a file from one computer to another and read the transfer speed. It'll give you a good indication.

Note that before I was talking about the maximum transfer speed of my wireless devices. My actual internet speed is much lower than that. Around 600-700KB/s download, and up to perhaps 80KB/s upload.

[NaRuTo001]

ok thanks I'm going to possibly try all of this out later on tonight maybe unplug my parents router/modem and just do it all in the living room once everyone's gone to bed through my laptop to make things easier.

Really are you saying that I am getting offered 1375KB/s download speed I never see any of the files I have downloaded in my life reach such great speeds oh well cheers off to work soon be able to make a start around 10.00pm but if I'm too tired I'll leave things till tomorrow.

on an extra note is there anyway if I stuff this process up that I permanently stuff my entire internet??? Dads not liking the idea to much but I said I won't stuff up haha......

[Buffalobiian]

ok thanks I'm going to possibly try all of this out later on tonight maybe unplug my parents router/modem and just do it all in the living room once everyone's gone to bed through my laptop to make things easier.

Really are you saying that I am getting offered 1375KB/s download speed I never see any of the files I have downloaded in my life reach such great speeds oh well cheers off to work soon be able to make a start around 10.00pm but if I'm too tired I'll leave things till tomorrow.

on an extra note is there anyway if I stuff this process up that I permanently stuff my entire internet??? Dads not liking the idea to much but I said I won't stuff up haha......

Log into your master router and look for the part that lets you save the settings to your computer as some sort of file (possibly an ini or cfg file, but it doesn't matter). If you end up stuffing something up, you can just reset the router, log back in and upload the settings again. If you want to be really thorough, you can also jot down all the settings on each page manually.. just in case the recovery file doesn't set everything back 100%.

Note that after a factory reset though, the master router may default back to the factory password and login details... or it may not. If you customised the login/password details, just try them both if one does not work.

I'll let you know, that we're not changing anything on the master router that will affect its internet connectivity. The above steps only deal with how it uses its wireless features. If you get stuck or something, you can always get online via an ethernet cable.

[NaRuTo001]

got up to the Disabling the DHCP server thing and got abit confused and stuck with the whole/ open up your network adapter through the settings if your computer and assign it:

A static IP: 192.168.1.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.1

I don't really have a clue how to do this so I skipped it.Did that cmd test =packet loss 100%
sorry really tired just turned master router back on and am posting this for help. Another thing which makes this process really complicated is when I go down into task bar click on wireless icon showing all the wireless networks it always goes like this I won't use our network name so hypothetical network name for eg:

if our main network name was lets say bob01
when I changed the ssid or network name of the repeater router to bob01 it won't show that where the wireless networks are shown instead it would be like the master router bob01 then all these random networks which can't be connected to like bob02 3,bob02 3 4,bob02 3 4 5 and so forth getting really complicated second chancing this.
If I can't fix anyof this I will restore the main routers config file to original settings then maybe have to decide to get a tech head to come in to my house and set this all up for me I was hoping more money was going to unnecessary but if I have to I have to lol anyway just thought you would like to know how fail I'm doing?????........


EDIT: oh and atm our netowork is unsecured so hopefully no neighbours are getting there bandwith downloading porn?FBI documents?