can you guys help me speed up my wireless network, it is running slow

[rookie1010]

Hello,

I have created a wireless network at home, when i try to surf the net, it takes a long time to load the pages.

I am running WPA with TKIP

i pinged the wireless router and got the following results.

C:\Documents and Settings\User_X>ping 192.168.1.254

Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 28ms

a second ping resulted in

C:\Documents and Settings\User_x>ping 192.168.1.254

Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 36ms, Maximum = 121ms, Average = 71ms


i tried without encryption and got the following results



C:\Documents and Settings\user_x>ping 192.168.1.254

Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 14ms

C:\Documents and Settings\user_x>ping 192.168.1.254

Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 32ms, Maximum = 82ms, Average = 53ms


i tried with WEP encryption



C:\Documents and Settings\user_x>ping 192.168.1.254

Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 45ms, Average = 32ms

C:\Documents and Settings\user_x>ping 192.168.1.254

Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 21ms, Maximum = 75ms, Average = 40ms

Can i access the wireless router settings from my laptop

i guess the request times out corresponds to a dropped packet


there are 2 other networks in the vicinity, i get 5 bars, the second one has 4 bars and the third one is a single bar. do you guys think that is what is contributing to the delay and dropped packets

is there any way i can improve the wireless connectivity of my network. should i change the channel which i use, is there any way i can know whiah channel are the other two networks on.

does encryption make a difference to the wireless connectivity

i have got a cordless phone in the room, does that have an effect, my understanding is that the cordless phone works on 1800 MHz and the wireless network on 2.4 GHz, so there should be no interference, correct?

 

[spidey07]

change channels to 1, 6, 11 and see which one works best.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply,

you think it is the fact that there are two many wireless networks around?
should i check the channels in between too?
is there no way that the base station can sense the noise on the channels and switch to a good channel? i thought the automatic channel selection did just that?