Gizmo_Geek

I have several 7260's and have seen the issue you are describing on some HP client boxes, but never on my own beast of a tower, which runs one as a backup. I would double check your advanced adapter property settings and make sure ARP Offload is disabled, you are running straight N and have the N beam preference set to an actual number like 20 or 40Hz instead of on auto. Also, those results will fluctuate some and there is a <10% variance between the first two, negligible in my humble opinion, but then again, I about hyperventilated with excitement over the crazy thought of 56k dial up speeds when it was introduced, so perhaps I am easy to please.

Running an R7000 with DD-WRT and increased power. I can say with honesty that the 2,4 reaches way out there and the speeds on the 5ghz are better than my previous Asus. Do have some random reboot issues and the DHCP server sometimes not forwarding a lease to my access points for a new authentication (AP's not running DHCP of any kind and requesting lease from R7000). I recently put it to the test and dabbled for days on all kinds of settings to tweak performance, eventually being able to cover about 35 of my 60 acres of farm with >35% signal, even with reasonable foliage and walls made of tin and steel. I could stream music no problems at my barn which is about 250 yds across a ravine from the house where the router was as well as in my shop which is about 200 yds the other side of the house. The stock firmware is not bad and has lots of options without being overwhelming, and the beamforming blows my old Asus out of the water. Don't like the USB3.0 being in the front of such a sexy machine, and if you crank the power, expect the noise to go up too. The stock antennas, for looking so good, have a shape that really doesn't make available any adjusted configuration that isn't the generic 'sits on desk horizontal, antenna have to be vertical' type. Trivial complaints I know, but still complaints. I think my next setup will be those stand alone Ubiquity Unifi dual-band AP's though, I've used them for work and the range for having internal antennas is awesome, they are POE, and they cost $250 for three of them.

Here's mine. I used to do the Windows Blinds and Rainmeter stuff, but these days I need function over form. Truth be told though, this is possible only because Win8 lets me have three taskbars natively. I tend to run the top two vertical on the inside frame and standard on my main monitor, it's a weird hold over from my days as a Game Master running multiple instances of WoW. This shot is how they are arranged physically (with a lot of junk littering the desk around them). Backgrounds are a rotating set of shots from the Martini Racing Team's visit to Top Gear ( I'd be happy to share any of my backgrounds, but most relate to cars or nerd-dom). Link to a hosting site because the 1280x1024 max upload size was laughable (even though I included it too for solidarity's sake)... Two uppers are 1680x1050 Asus VW226t's and the lower main is 1920x1080 attached to the rest of my Lenovo y500.

Hello, Ky from Texas here, glad to find a place where others are pushing the limits of what they do have rather than waiting and buying the newest thing!