NETGEAR wireless router help!!

[fly boy]

What options do you have? 1 6 and 11 are the default auto switching channels. If you can try 3 or 8, they overlap into the auto channels but I generally have good luck in areas with high traffic. I would also get a new AC router if possible, it will support way higher speed then you have now and it has superior antenna technology. I would get the netgear nighthawk for my house if they weren't so dang expensive!

Have be you tried moving the router around in the area it sits? Moving it a foot can make a drastic difference in the broadcast.

There isn't too much of a difference if I am sitting next to it, out on the couch, or on the back patio.

I get 12 down and .6-.8 up plugged in directly to my netgear DSL gateway or wireless anywhere in my house, I have my modem in the crappiest place to, it's in the basement in the furnace room under the heat ducts, I get full strength on the main floor and about 3/4 strength upstairs. It's all about placement and channel and having a decent router to start with. I deal with wireless complaints everyday, this test was just ran on my iPad on the main floor on the opposite end of the house. Century link sucks!

I can get the full 5mb up, it's just my download speed that is being Choked.

I scored a free D-link but it's not on the list so I can't get DD-WRT onto it.