Nice post, I never heard of inSSIDer before, but it turns out to be an excellent program! Just scann

A few weeks ago I bought an Apple timecapsule, elfa for easy backup of our Macbooks, but also as a new wifi base station, because the wifi in the worlds most ugly dsl modem is very unstable. elfa One of the best features is the dual-band capabilities. elfa Most people don't know this, but if you use a non N device elfa (like an iPhone or older laptop) elfa your base station will operate in G mode, which limits your maximum elfa speed to 54 Mbps. To make thinks even more worse, the regular used frequency (2.4 Ghz) is overcrowded elfa which leads to even lower speeds. When using a dual-band base station you can use the much less used 5 Ghz frequency for your N devices and let your old non N devices use the 2.4 Ghz frequency. Result: The N network will perform as N and not degrade when using the non N devices. elfa I've been scanning (note - a good mac program to do this would be nice) with inSSIDer to select the best channels elfa to use. As you can see, the 2.4 Ghz band is a bit full...But the 5 Ghz is totally empty, the only wifi there is mine It looks like the signal strength of the Apple timecapsule is not so strong, the Linksys from my neighbour overpowers elfa it, but the Apple signal is much more stable: Up: and down: The builtin gigabit switch was also a nice extra, my LAN looks like this now: Fetching a large mkv from my NAS gives my speeds of 42 MBps ( 336 Mbps ) and I can even watch a full HD movie using wifi. Some speedtests done on my macbook: Macbook (wifi) to Macbook(wifi) : 5,9 MBps ( 47,2 Mbps ) Macbook (1 Gbps LAN) to Macbook(wifi): elfa 13,2 MBps ( 105,6 Mbps ) My old G network never went faster than 2.2 MBps so this is a nice upgrade I use the timecapsule as router, so I have 2 routers/firewalls on my line now: code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 tracert www.arnoraps.com Tracing route to arnoraps.com [217.148.184.70] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.1.1 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1 3 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 1.66-181-91.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be [91.181.66.1] ...
I bought the 2 TB version ( the 1 TB version wasn't available, probably due to the new version that came out ) which was a bit expensive... 449,00 A little overview elfa of the different wifi options: code: 1 2 3 Time Capsule elfa - 2TB 449,00 Time Capsule - 1TB 269,00 elfa AirPort Extreme 159,00 The only difference is the built-in disk, and that a airport extreme has a power adapter, while the time capsule elfa have a built-in transformer.
In my opinion you should buy a cheap gigabit switch (theyre not expensive at all) and connect your fileserver, PC and popcorn to those... Because right now that's your bottleneck, and it's a big one...
My main fileserver is the readynas, which is already at 1 Gbps. The popcorn, old desktop pc and freecom net disk only have 100 Mbps NIC so no improvement possible there. Both laptops do have gigabit, so on my desk I have a cable ready for the laptop.
Isn't the time capsule rather expensive for what it offers? A 2TB NAS with DHCP/web server backup/Wireless AP functionality is available for 250 to 350 euros. What do you believe to be the biggest benefit over any "normal" NAS device?
Nice post, I never heard of inSSIDer before, but it turns out to be an excellent program! Just scanned my neighborhood too, 15 networks and not a single one uses ports different from port 11 (the standard), except for my network elfa which works at channel 6 If I where you, I would use channel 3.
It is best not to use overlapping elfa channels. In a generic 11 channel setup, only channel 1, 6 and 11 don't overlap each other. If you do need more you could do a 1,3,8,11 setup, which gives a 5% overlap on each other.
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