Right then, I am sure my network configuration is very similar to many other people.
Sky LLU broadband with a Vigor 2820 (and a backup Vigor 120 ADSL modem too), using a SureSIgnal (v1). The 2820 provides a static IP address via a MAC reservation for the SS.
Quite often I notice that webbrowsing from my HTC Trophy is very slow when on Wifi at home. Odd, as it syncs at about 18meg, and speed tests on the PC show good performance. The phone often times out or is very slow when browsing, so the other day, I pulled the power out of my Suresignal unit (router is in the loft), suresignal in my bedroom. Immediately the phone started browsing the internet much faster, even though it was still connected via wifi. Also if I disable Wifi on the phone and use my SureSignal provided "3g" connection things seem much speedier.
As the 3g Vodafone signal in my house is only second to rubbish, can I easily tell when the SureSignal is broken.
This leads me to the conclusion that the SureSignal is somehow buggering about with the wifi signal in my house. Note the SS and WiFi AP are a good 10-15metres apart, with a some brickwood and a floor between then - it is not as if they are both cuddled up in bed together.
The SureSignal is great when it works, but it seems to rather too much time not working, or possibly causing other issues, such as network performance....
Has anyone else noticed that they SureSignal is causing wifi issues? For what it is worth my AP is running b/g/n on channel6.
One final question: If I browse the internet using 3g at home (via my SureSignal) does that come out of my 250MB/month allowance? In theory it should not as it is using my existing internet connection, and not Vodafone's mobile network. i.e. as a work around I could just turn off wifi and use 3g, but I don't want to do that if Vodafone are going to charge me for using my own internet connection to provide data services to the phone.
Thanks,
Matt
