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I hate wireless... Says signal is good, but speed is crawling

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Triumph

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Bought a Belkin 802.11G card for my desktop since my laptop is dead. I never had a problem here in the basement with the laptop, but this desktop card is not performing up to par. It says it's connected at 54 mbs, it says the signal strength is "very good," it says the SNR is very low, but this thing is crawling like a modem! Should I just take this back and ditch it for another brand?
 
WTF? Changed the channel, and although the signal got worse, the speeds are wayyyy up? Yeah, wireless sucks.
 
Yeah, wireless is great but can be unpredictable at times. I wired my whole house for a wired network. 3 bedrooms and basement. I do have wireless as well but only use that when I bring my work laptop home.
 
i've had the same issue at my gf's house. her desktop with a wireless pci adapter at one point said great signal, but pages wouldnt load, after we moved her desk a bit away from the wall, it gave a lower signal strength, but pages were zipping along again like they're supposed to. beats the hell out of me why signal strength doesnt reflect actual performance sometimes.
 
I'm the sole resnet technician for a dorm that is only wireless with concrete block walls. Lets just say it has been challenging.
 
" it says the SNR is very low,"

That was your tell there. Low SNR means alot of noise on that frequency.
 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Yeah, wireless is great but can be unpredictable at times. I wired my whole house for a wired network. 3 bedrooms and basement. I do have wireless as well but only use that when I bring my work laptop home.
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same here. I wired all 3 floors of my house with cat5 in every room except the bathroom. 🙁 I turn off the wireless feature on my netgear router. Connected 3 switches to the router and my internet surfing and file transfer is working great with no problems.
 
Originally posted by: ktwebb
" it says the SNR is very low,"

That was your tell there. Low SNR means alot of noise on that frequency.
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I had it backwards, my bad. I meant high S/N. But regardless, changing the channel fixed the problem.
 
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