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Hi all you lovely people, I know it’s a stretch but we are currently housing some refugees in a separate building on our premises and wanted to know if there were any businesses willing to provide a booster for them given the circumstances. we have tried net gear but they have gone silent (we’re just looking for a yes or no) and avoided the question. Our current bt boosters are cutting out causing intermittent connectivity at best for them and so we wondered if anyone had recommendations or were kind enough to provide a booster for us/ better options. (We are UK based) Thanks in advance, Joe

Manufacturers are making mainly usb 2 dongles to have compatibility with older systems and the transfer rate of usb 2 is still good enough for WiFi For years i had WiFi trouble till i realized that usb 2 devices need to go in usb 2 slots for optimum performance. I have always been putting it in the blue slots at the top for better reception.......... big mistake. Then i plugged it in a black usb slot and it works perfectly no drops, no disconnects in game, it is solid now. If you plug a usb 2 HDD in a 3.0 slot you will see that it drops in and out of optimum speed. usb 3 hardware can be put in a usb 2 slot no trouble.

Anyone know of a good bass booster that works with my spotify playlist for my iphone? Also a PC one would be nice too

Introduction: Sup LTT! I swear every time my buddy finds his way over here we spend a couple days just nerding out to the max. Projects that aren't even on our table just spontaneously happen. This time is no exception, woke up with no intention of screwing around with the LTE modem for this place but now we've built & spent all day testing two different satellite dish based boosters. The only empirical data we could gather through this process was my modem's status page which gave us Signal Strength in dBm & then a Signal Quality rating as well. Though after a day spent trying all sorts of crazy things, watching those two numbers constantly, and trying to handle this in a scientific manner we've came up with some killer results. Night and day difference! Technically speaking, maybe this is all occurring for reasons we don't properly understand. Though the signal strength/quality gain is hard to argue with & it's noticeably faster for everybody across the network, so I'd call that a win. The Setup: This location is out in the middle of national forest, the closest cell tower is roughly five miles away. Forget power so everything is ran off generators / batteries. Options for decent internet out here are super limited, I've tried all the satellite internet options available, of which they all suck terrible ass. Finally I got temp phones with all the carriers that had towers around the area & just started speed testing the crap out of them. This worked so well in comparison to anything else I'd tried that I bought MOFI4500-4GXeLTE-V2's for all my locations, got unlimited data plans, and said welcome to the LTE revolution. Now these things are pretty cool they've got lots of neat features & run OpenWRT. As I mentioned in stevenkan's 4G/LTE hotspot thread, their customer service is absolutely terrible, plus their is $40 chinese versions of these exact models out there already. So I don't want to sound like a mofi fanboi even though I have enjoyed using their equipment so far. Previous owners of the property had satellite television & left a dish attached to a cement block outside. Plus I still had a dish left over from trying out satellite internet options, one they never picked up or wanted back. Looking around this morning after having coffee we found this lovely guide; DIY 4G LTE Yagi Antenna in 10 Steps for $10 which was very inspiring. Though I tell you what, I don't have any of that gear, am out in the middle of no where for the holiday weekend, & am not driving the two+ hours back to the closest town to find those parts. Regardless if it's ten bucks or not, time & gas alone says no. So we started thinking what we could do that would have any effect at all. So we used Antenna Search.com to find the exact location of the only tower around & started moving the modem all over the place. Got the ladder out & tried mounting it to the roof on the second floor, sitting it in all the window seals, moving electronics, etc. The signal strength would range from -105 through -110 dBm & the quality would jump around like crazy but generally average from 15-20. Outside the numbers it just lists this generically as "poor signal quality" in the modem status page. So we went out and took the dishes off both the old dish system & the old internet system. The when mounted them to studio lighting & green screen poles. Technically these are from Linco & are their 10ft editions. Not really sure what we were doing we used zip ties as a quick an easy solution to mounting things since we could undo them in a heart beat. We also tried to find other guides on the internet for people who have done this, most of which range widely in quality, generally on the terrible side. Most people that seemed more educated suggested mimicking the distance & angles perfectly from how the dish was originally used so we made sure to attempt that first before moving basically every piece possible into every possible position then watching for a while to see if the signal numbers improved at all. This was a day long process, we didn't want to act to quickly on anything though we also learned A LOT along the way. Whole lot of reinventing the wheel and just being noobs going on as curiosity truly was the name of the day. I kept taking pictures but in low light situations my phone did not do that well, I'll be sure to include them though so everybody can see how we progressed. Interesting Notes: The smaller television dish is actually a horizontal oval, we kept kidding it was the 16:9 dish. Though it was also more concave then the internet dish. Much lighter and easier to work with that's for sure. The receiver on it actually had three points laid out horizontal that matched the wider surface area of the dish. This turned out to be important later on while we were trying to get the two cellular antennas perfectly aligned for each dish's nuances. On the other hand the internet dish was easily three inches larger on the left and right plus was an actual circle so much wider top to bottom. Though it was almost flat in shape & it was used with a single receiver pointed right at the center of the dish. The weight of this unit actually made it much harder to move around & test, plus when fully extended ten feet into the air it wobbled pretty concernedly. It was so much harder to try and get the antennas aligned on this dish as well, the signal quality through the whole day was just worse no matter what we did, how we mounted things, or prayed to the cellular gods. At the end of the day after slowly testing everything we could in different locations, adding wood blocks to change tilt, you name it. We started to see some pretty common themes that greatly impacted performance & ones that hindered it to laughable conditions. Finishing the day out with the smaller TV dish about five feet off the ground pointing out a glass door. We would also take our cell phones with apps like Network Signal Info & see if we couldn't boost them as well, which we could. So it was a decent second and third device to have around for playing with during the performance verification steps of each stage of what we were trying to do. I asked if he had any comments for this post & he said that he was really surprised with how precise you have to be & how much tiny amounts of movement mattered to overall signal quality. Getting the antennas to work with the dish is moving everything tiny amounts until you hit just the right spot. At that, he also said, it was neat even with the modem's slow status page poll rates you could see almost immediately when you found the sweet spot. Jumping on that point it was amazing to me as well. If you put the whole rig ten feet in the air and slowly worked it down inch by inch you'd find a huge different between say 7'6" and 7'. I didn't really expect that myself given I'd just been screwing these units into the ceilings / walls of places & walking away pretty happy. The Results: We managed to gain +10 dBm on our signal strength & +10 on the signal quality as well. Though one of the biggest differences is it just doesn't jump around like crazy. It use to spike left and right, no stability. Now it just sits at -98 / -10 with slight changes over time, mainly to the quality rating not the strength. Inside the software this took it from two bars of connectivity at a "poor" rating, to three bars at a "fair" rating. The entire network is considerably snappier & our speed test latency dropped about 25% on average. (from around 100ms to 75ms) Overall for something that cost no money & has no power going to it I'd say that's a massive win. Plus now it's all mobile! I can take this thing with me to other locations. Spin it, raise it, lower it, change it's pitch, completely aim it wherever I need to. Should make finding that sweet spot much easier in the future, plus just knowing WTF we're doing probably helps as well. Was a neat project for the day, sure it could've been done faster but we really wanted to see what would happen if we tested basically every possible outcome. The Winning Idea: Both Attempts Side By Side: Zip Tie Mounting FTW: Final Positioning & Working Version:

So I have this problem (wonder why I'm on here ): I'm in a room without ethernet ports and my PC does not have WiFi built in (used only ethernet for years). I have a router with me that's not even a year old and I was wondering if there was some way to use it as a wireless adapter for my computer by connecting it to the WiFi in the house. Also, running an ethernet cable is not currently possible and I'd prefer to not have to buy a USB WiFi adapter. I'm able to do this with my iPhone feeding off of our WiFi and plugged into a USB port, so I'd imagine the same concept would apply here. Any help is appreciated!

I looking for a good booster for data at my farm. I have about 10 acres of land and have att as my phone company. Does any one have a good one that they would recommend?

I recently installed a fresh copy of Windows and at a friend's suggestion I also installed Advanced SystemCare for its Speed Boost option in the hopes that it might squeeze slightly faster framerates from my outdated AMD FX-4300 CPU. I was genuinely surprised when I ran a full system scan and it claimed to have found 9,798 browser security issues and 292 registry errors (see attached). As I said, this was a fresh install of Windows. It only had a few applications and the latest Windows updates installed (Chrome, Firefox, AVG Free, Steam, CCleaner, Advanced SystemCare and a few mainstream games downloaded from Steam). Also, this was after I had just finished running CCleaner and fixed several registry errors that it claimed to have discovered. My theory is that most of these supposed optimizers and speed boosters aren't actually fixing much if anything at all and they are just a ploy to get you to install other bundled bloatware and malware. I did a search to see if I could find any benchmark tests on the various PC optimizers available but came up dry. What are your thoughts on this? Do you use third party optimizing software? If so, which ones and do they honestly make any kind of noticable difference in your computer's performance?

The aperture seems to only go as far as 1.4, but with the speedbooster xl, this should be larger by 1.3 stops. I checked the metabones website and the lens was not listed in their compatibility list, but they did mention that their speedbooster should work with most ef lenses. Does anyone know if the speedbooster just doesn't work with the sigma 35 or if there is something wrong with my speedbooster?

I just bought a TP-Link WiFi booster, and I can’t work out whether I should have the name as the same as my router, or to have them as WifiXXXX-Ext. I’d rather that my devices switch seamlessly.

Hi, my first time on the LTT forum and I am wondering if there is such a device that plugs in via type c into a mobile phone to extend the range of a 4g signal? Thanks -Josh

Howdy everyone, I'm looking for a solution to me poor quality internet connection at home. I have Telus Fiber at home and I'm getting 175/175 next to the modem which is on the top floor of my house. (2nd floor - middle of house). The house a custom built mid 2000's home, without Ethernet in the walls. Just the coaxial cable connections in all the rooms (except the area where I have the systems all setup). My desktop work station is currently running using a power line. https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/d-link-d-link-powerline-av500-mini-adapter-starter-kit-dhp-309av-dhp-309av/10227514.aspx Unfortunately this is all I'm getting because the total distance from the telus router to the electrical panel, down to to sub panel, to this room is a solid 100 meters. (Yes, it's a big house!). I have spoken to Telus and they flat out refuse to come and rewire the hookup to start in this room. That's understandable. I got a quote from an electrician to come out and JUST to wire this room, it's 750$... that won't be happening. Would a wifi booster and a wifi adapter on the desktops work better?

I simply wanna know if Razer Game Booster actually works or not. I have an under-powered laptop that I want to try some games (just to gauge it's performance) on and I'm wandering if it'll help...

Hi so I'll get straight to this how I usually do with all my other posts. I live in a long 1 story bungalow. Keyword there being long. Up one end of the house in the loft I have the router, some router Virgin Media gave me when I went with them. Up that end half of the house it works fine, so in the kitchen, living room, dinning room and office and part of the hallway. But way at the other end of the house I have the 3 bedrooms and the bathrooms closely grouped together. I have ran an ethernet up that end of the house and it come down to a wall socket in one of the bedrooms where wireless connection is the worst. Obviously you would think awesome wired what's the problem well I have mobile devices such as my phone and tablet and videos buffer all the time if I try to connect to main network, it has about 1 bar connection strength. So my question is i have a ethernet run what product/item do I need to turn that ethernet signal back into wireless again. I get confused with all the names of them like ap, booster etc. I have a wireless relay that relays the wireless signal but that is abosuolte pony and want a better solution to the problem. Hope you can help! Thanks, Luke!

Hi guys, can owners of USB Wifi Boosters do a speedtest with and without the boosters? I'm thinking of getting one but doubting the power of it THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

Hello, Ive been needing a WiFi booster for my room for a while now and i've came across what looks to be a good deal. I was wondering if it's worth the money or not and if I need to plug in a Ethernet cable to use the wirless mode on it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NIUHA84/ref=s9_simh_gw_p147_d0_i4?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=16Z2EMXDDJMV39PHG454&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294 Thanks in advance, Harry

I have wonderful connection to my (desktop) PC upstairs in my house but all my mobile devices; Mobile Phone, Mum's Laptop & My Mum's phone all have a terrible wireless signal up there. I'm just wondering how a WiFi booster (one linked below) works, I see it has a RJ45 port on the side does that need to be plugged into a PC for it to pick up and boost signal? I'm just confused and am wondering if it's any good for me to get one. Thank You! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121229663416?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Hey, I was wondering if there was any Candy Crush players on LTT? This game is so addicting, it became the new craze! Post your current level if you play!

I've got a windows 8 laptop with 4gb ram. Naturally, I get worried about this low amount when usage goes to 60-70 percent (or even higher if I'm doing some video editing etc). When I use ram-boosting software such as "MzRamBooster" it does make a difference in terms of usage (cuts about 15%-20% usage). So my main question would be: Are these ram boosting softwares useful in increasing performance of computers?

Hi everyone, a few days ago I installed razer game booster simply for the job of showing the fps of a game in the upper left corner. I had the 'game booster' mode turned off and did not use the recording function of it either. I had no problems with the program until running Minecraft and to surprise was only getting around 35 - 40 fps with my current rig, I knew something was wrong so I disabled some background programs including razer game booster and it shot up to 100+ fps? This is no fluke as I retried opening and closing razer game booster and it did the same thing?? Does this mean that razer game booster was doing the opposite of its job? My questionas are why did this happen? What made it happen? Should I still use Razer Game Booster to show the fps of a game? What are some other good programs that can show the fps of a game you are playing?