Anyone familiar with TP-Link routers and making one work?
I have a very old (5+ years) old Belkin router that works great. It's a wired/wireless router and I have only ever used the wired part of it because it sat on my computer desk and I hooked up computers, my XBox, and switches to it and it has preformed very well.
Recently I bought a droid compatible tablet (great deal 299.00 for a 32gb Acer A500) and so I enabled my wireless features on my old Belkin. It works. However because it doesn't broadcast very far, or at least it seems like it doesn't broadcast very far. Especially through just a single wall. If I'm right next to it I get a full set of "bars" that shows I'm getting a great signal. When I go 20 feet away through one wall to the living room less than a bar most of the time. Same with 8 feet away through two walls (bathroom in between) when I'm in my bedroom.
So I asked a few friends and one had said he'd had great luck with TP-Link gigabyte routers. So I bought the TL-WR940N from newegg.com and tried to hook it up. The quick set up disk never was able to let me connect and so I looked up information online on the TP-Link website. Through several frustrating hours of following their directions completely, I finally wrote them and said I couldn't get it to work at all on my computer. It never gets a "signal" from the computer.
The response basically was a link to their website... duh. I'd been there. But, I followed it exactly again and no luck still.
Here was the email I received:
Thank you for your email. Regarding to your problem, please refer to the following link to configure your router. When you can get the internet by plugging your computer to the LAN port of the router, and then please configure the WiFi on the same page.
http://www.tp-link.com/en/article/?id=138
Hope this is helpful to you. Any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are always at your service.
For more technical support, please visit http://www.tp-link.com/en/support/faq/
Best Regards & Good Luck,
Bella.Li
Technical Support Engineer
So the part where it says "When you can get the internet by plugging your computer to the LAN port of the router, and then please configure the WiFi on the same page" I can get to that page, but when I try and configure the WiFi per their instructions, it just does nothing.
Anyone have any ideas what I can do? I switched back to the old Belkin and it's fine, however I thought this might be a better wired/wireless router.
Thanks as always.
Malgor
