wireless help

[super__dan]

Gents,

Just got online again at new house with sky broadband, all is good except.
You are supplied with a 108Mbps wireless modem, If I use it with the cable connected through the LAN port I get 4.3Mbps which is great for my area, through the wireless I get just under 2Mbps according to http://www.speedtest.net/ , how come? I can actually notice the difference too!

Dan

[jimmy]

Interference? Distance from the router?

Can you give me your address please so I can park up and upload reports etc?

[super__dan]

Lol, I'm sat next to the router so can't be that.

[hickston]

an explanation (goes on a bit !!)

http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/wireless/speed.html

[Lee]

At least yours is working dan, im on my 3rd router from sky and after 3 weeks and hours on the phone to them i have been escalated sp up to level 3 tech support.

So far not impressed with them in the new house

[philly]

I usually find if you get about half the speed of what it says on the box, that's about as good as you'll get.
Don't for get to hide your SSID and encryption so Jimmy can't steal your bandwidth!

[Lew]

That's why I got mine set up by some puta' geek. and aint had 1 problemo for like...eva =] its great

[jimmy]

Originally Posted by philly

I usually find if you get about half the speed of what it says on the box, that's about as good as you'll get.
Don't for get to hide your SSID and encryption so Jimmy can't steal your bandwidth!

Please ignore this man, he is mean.

[philly]

Originally Posted by jimmy

Please ignore this man, he is mean.

Oh that's harsh Sorry Jimmy. You can have my connection instead. I'll PM the address!

[rcracer]

Originally Posted by jimmy

Interference? Distance from the router?

Can you give me your address please so I can park up and upload reports etc?

when i had slow speeds before crimbo my isp said it may be cristmas lights

[Southwell]

I'd guess it's the laptops fault, you could check with a speed test. If not it might be the modem considering it's pre n and not n certified it may just be crap firmware.

[losixxx]

thats 100% correct!

when i first moved in i put rope light outside the house under guttering then my broadband stopped working!?!?!
2 days and after contacting my server to find ever ok, next step contacted bt, engineer spent 3 hours checking all my lines/sockets etc then asked if id installed any other electrical equipment in the last week, the only thing was the rope light...so when i turned it off broadband fine when i turned it on no broadband!!!!
the engineer said he had heard of this but never seen it