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I recently got my broadband setup. I have a 4MB line. I only got the standard basic wired router from Smart as I had a wireless router already myself. When I plug either router directly into my PC via an Ethernet cable I will get a speed of 4MB. However when I try and connect via the wireless option I will only get a 2.5MB connection speed and can only download a 100MB file at 140kb/sec. The same file I can download at 400kb/sec or even more via the Ethernet cable.
What is the maximum speeds I can realistically expect connecting via wireless option. Should it be faster.
The wireless router is the Netgear DG834G. I have updated the firmware on the router. Any thing else I can do.
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.
I get the same speed via wireless on two different pc's (well one desktop and one laptop). The desktop would be maybe 10 metres away. The laptop I had literally right beside the router.
Both the usb wireless dongle on my desktop and integrated wireless card on the laptop are 802.11g.
I have tried changing the channels from 11 to 2, back to 6 and back to 11 again and the speeds didnt pick up at all.
Any other ideas, or is it just the wireless part of the router. The router is 802.11g as well.
If you don't move the desktop around the house (why would you with a laptop) you should go wired into the router for the desktop. The majority of the dongles are not very good so if you want to go wireless you would be better off buying an internal wireless card for the desktop. Try and buy the version recommended by netgear.
I found that the netgear routers work better with their own software, as opposed to just using the windows zero configuration wizard, so make sure you run the netgear disc in both machines and when you scan the network area avoid picking the same channel as you neighbour, especially businesses.
Hi there. Well, as I am new to the Wireless Connectivity Community, I have had my problems last month, but now all is hunkydory.
I am with Irish Broadband, Breeze. This wireless internet comes from a satelite dish on your chimney and connects via Ethanet to your desktop or router. Now my new laptop came with a built in wireless connectivity card. When I rang Irish Braodband for advice, they were extremely helpful. Explained what I needed to do and how to connet the router with with their product. Unfortunately, I went to Dixons, STAY WELL AWAY FROM THEM, UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!! . They sold me a router Lynxscys for €120 and it didn't work. Between IBB and tech support for the router, the problem of not being able to see a web page on either laptop or desktop had them all baffeled. Anyway, I found a great Computer Shop in Tallaght, they were sooooo helpful. Told be to return the router to Dixons and get their SWEEX for €50. Got a wireless connectivity card put into the desktop and I have more or less same connectivity speed on both. But the distance between the laptop to the router does make a diffence, but I have still been able to download the games, morning, noon and night, without loss.
Maybe there is a router problem for some of you and maybe your ISP must be changed, too. I coudn't be happier.
I set up an IBB installation for some friends and it seems to work well for them, well, they don't complain to me about it anyway. They had over three years of problems with eircom before they moved.
I don't see the point with running desktop as wireless. You end up sharing your wireless bandwidth with a static machine. I know this from experience because my Dad insisted on using two desktops wirelessly and, yeah, it works but why bother. Wired is more secure and runs faster. You will notice the limitations on 54Mbit when you transfer large files or when your network computer updates the same software at the same time.
Hi B4D P3NNY
If I had my desktop in the sitting room I would probably not have bothered installing the wireless card, however, in my case the desktop is in the attic and I enjoy not having to run up 2 flights of stairs anymore. It works for me. As I'm not working on both at the same time, and the wireless on desktop in disabled when not in use. But thanks for your reply.
The situation is still the same. I have installed and run netstumbler on the laptop. I found my own network and two others. I moved my own broadband onto channel 2 as this wasnt been used by any other network. It didnt make any difference.
At the weekend the wireless speeds were as low as 3.75kb even with the wireless router right beside the laptop. Again it worked perfectly via wired option.
Eventually I may move the router and telephone socket closer to my desktop PC. When I know I am getting very good speeds via wireless on the laptop.
At the moment with the current setup, the wireless router is in the kitchen (main and only phone socket is there), desktop is upstairs, laptop moves around. We have two different people using the broadband.
We both get roughly the same speeds via wireless (150kb download, its shows up as 3mb connection on speed test page).
The router is capable of 54MBps wireless, so are both wireless cards, would 108MBps router and wireless cards make much difference.
Obviously the Smart connection is fine (although it did go down to 3.3MBps a few times and its supposed to be 4MBps), is their anything else I can do to improve my wireless speeds.
hi brian,
My dad has the same netgear router as you. Did you get a dongle with the router? If you did then disable the laptops' wireless card and try the dongle. You should also check if there are any updates for the card or software for it.
If you get a high speed connection wired into the laptop but a poor connection with the wireless card then it would appear that the card is the problem and this
can be software(driver) based or hardware based.
You should set your adapters to default,set the wireless card speed to 54Mbps, update the drivers, make sure that you are not running multiple firewalls, drop the firewall on the router.Try the router with an 'open' setup (no wep/wpa). Try the dongle or try the laptop with another wireless router. With netstumbler you should be able to find other wireless networks and try to connect to them.
Can give some details about the hardware you are using, laptop maker, wireless card and operating system.
i know there are a few different brands there but that hasnt created any problem before when i used the usb dongle in work or when i used the laptop or dongle with a neighbours router two houses away from me.
i can connect onto the neighbours router at nearly the same speeds as my own, i think its a netopia router
i never tried the dongle with the laptop
i have updated the drivers for the 3com usb dongle but it didnt make any difference
i havent tried it without wep encryption but even if that did work i wouldnt be to happy leaving it this way.
I think the aspire has a wpci card already installed so why do you need a usb dongle. If it does not have a card then give Gurmukh a call at irishwireless and get a CM9 and install it. it will give a lot more features than a dongle. Also try setting your access point to short preamble and reduce the tx speed to 11Mb and try again. If you have a card installed in the laptop, is there a possibility that both the card and the dongle are associating to the same access point. This will cause many conflicts.
I have NEVER used the dongle in the laptop, I have ALWAYS used the laptops wireless card which is built in.
I have ONLY used the dongle with my desktop.
I know that if I use a direct ethernet connection with either desktop or laptop will give me faster connection.
Basically all I get with wireless is 1.5MBps while I get 4MBps via ethernet. I think I should be able to get a faster connection via wireless. Even if I have the laptop right beside the router I will still get the same speed. I might eventually use ethernet on one of them, but I was just using both initially to test it out as I had a wireless usb dongle that I used to use in work occasionaly.
If I havent explained any of my current setup clear enough I apologise but it should all be clear now.
You could try looking at configuration features on your netgear router for setting priority either on certain types of communication medium ... say like priority FTP or WiFi services to your laptop from the router or setting the priority in general to particular node say like by private IP or MAC address of your laptop.
Check out signal strength and quality. Maybe its good but just check their are no objects about that could create interfernce.
Also see if you can increase the transmit power for wifi I doubt this will help but its worth a shot.
..... If you can't get a fix buy yourself a crimper, cat5 cable and some sleeves and start putting down some cable. You can buy a 100 meters of cable from maplins pretty cheap and either nail in down or stick in under the carpet ... bit of a hatchet job if it aint done right. Plus cable is alot faster, more reliable and more secure.
Last edited by dathiultaigh : 15th February 2007 at 12:51 AM.
Be Carefull Because I Was With Smart With The Same Contract Of You,and I Found The Other Day By Accident I Was Getting Only 1 To 2 Mgb Speed When In My Contract Say 4,so Be Very Carefull With This,and This Is With No Wireless,1 Year Paying For 4 Getting 1 To 2,check Out You Self.
As your router is in the kitchen are there any domestic appliances that could be interfering with the signal? I know that microwaves can have a seriously detrimental effect on wireless connections - other electromagnetic devices may also cause interference. Assuming that the signal strength is OK, have you contacted Netgear's support about this? The reason I ask is that I have almost the exact same set-up apart from the fact that my laptop only has a 802.11b inbuilt wireless card. The wireless speed that I get is typically about 3.9Mb download on my 4Mb Smart line.
As you say your Smart line is OK I suspect that if your signal strength is Very Good or better then you may have a 'bad' router.
Be Carefull Because I Was With Smart With The Same Contract Of You,and I Found The Other Day By Accident I Was Getting Only 1 To 2 Mgb Speed When In My Contract Say 4,so Be Very Carefull With This,and This Is With No Wireless,1 Year Paying For 4 Getting 1 To 2,check Out You Self.
Any broadband provider's contract will state that you will get (xyz)Mb, subject to local conditions - meaning the quality of the fixed line for DSL, and the signal available in wireless broadband offerings. If you aren't getting the full speeds, get the guys at Smart to check your line - sign on at Smart's Support Forum and see what they say - sometimes they can improve things by changing settings, sometimes your line is just poor quality
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. They sold me a router Lynxscys for €120 and it didn't work. Between IBB and tech support for the router, the problem of not being able to see a web page on either laptop or desktop had them all baffeled. Anyway, I found a great Computer Shop in Tallaght, they were sooooo helpful. Told be to return the router to Dixons and get their SWEEX for €50. Got a wireless connectivity card put into the desktop and I have more or less same connectivity speed on both. But the distance between the laptop to the router does make a diffence, but I have still been able to download the games, morning, noon and night, without loss.
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