The speed that you connect to your wireless router can depend on a number of factors, but the main one is signal strength. If your router is one room, and you're browsing from another, the signal strength will decrease based on the square of the distance. As the signal strength decreases, so will your connection speed, so try to keep as close as possible to the router with a direct line of sight from your PC to the router.
You can also experience problems if there are other wireless routers in your vicinity using the same channel. Try changing the channel using the setup interface for your router.
Usually the signal strength and channel can be checked using the wireless utilities installed on your computer.
A quick check shows this to be a 802.11g router which offer speeds up to 54 Mbps. It also supports the 802.11b standard which has a maximum speed of 11Mbps. Check what the specifications of your computer to see if your wireless adapter is supports 802.11b or 802.11g. If your computer uses an 802.11b adapter, you might consider upgrading to 802.11g - it's a fairly cheap and easy upgrade to perform. If you do upgrade, it's probably better to either remove or disable the original adapter first.
Hope this helps,
Paul  |