Ran a few tests last week that involved me running the R4 outside of its case. For one of tests I didn’t even bother connecting the antennas, just the cables and it was the most stable speeds i had seen yet out of this thing. But I put it back together and it was complete crap again…
This was really eating at me so I spent way too much time this past weekend experimenting with different cable routing when I finally hit a configuration that just blew me away.
I have tested numerous community images as well as the official Sinovoip image and they all run great (relatively speaking) with this config.
With line of sight im getting over 1Gbps, even upto 10ft away Im still between 800-900Mbps. Moving a room away im still around 300-500Mbps. Even on the complete opposite end of the house i’m able to connect and usually get around 30Mbps, though at this distance it’s not stable. I can stand in the same spot and simply turn around and drop to 0Mbps.
It’s worth noting that the placement of the R4 is terrible for these tests as-well. Not only is it just sitting on my desk, at the complete opposite end of the house. There is a decent amount of metal objects between me and the R4 along with my current router being dead center of the house making all kinds of competing noise.
I thought it was just a fluke, but it’s going on three days now so I figured it might be worth sharing. Sorry for the crude drawing, I didn’t photograph it because I honestly didn’t think it was going to work.
