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My wifi throughput blows *** ( i think )

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bananapeel42

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Anyway, I don't think it's the router, just changed to a Netgear N router and my bandwidth is roughly 2mb down through wifi. The signal strength to the card isn't great, about 50-60%, but it supposedly says I am still running at 54mbps which should be plenty to hit my max bandwidth Time Warner allows, but it isn't even close...

I have an Airlink super g wireless card and i can't download over 200 kb/s at all on my desktop.

i have a dell laptop with an n wifi card and hit about 500-600 kb/s max through wifi as well. so it's not the router.

speed tests were performed using Speakeasy



Is it possible that it's NOT the wifi card? Maybe some setting (Vista Ultimate 32bit). Unfortunately the fucking airlink POS driver forces you to use their little shit tool for wifi management rather than just windows.


I do have another wifi card on the way now, and am just curious as to anything else that could be hurting me.

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You have a noisy environment. Change channels to 1,6, 11 and eliminate sources of interference like other wi-fi devices, bluetooth, cordless phones, microwave ovens.
 
I did just buy a wireless hp/mouse combo which could be interfering big time as the receiver is sitting on top of the machine.

Other than remove it, what can I do?
 
Update, received the wireless N with mimo. signal strength went from 40-60% to 95-99%.

Still no increase in download speed though. I honestly am guessing it could be timewarner at this point.

 
If using a wired connection is faster than wireless it's not your provider. It's your wireless. Signal strength is meaningless without also including noise (which the bars don't do).

 
I wish I had answer for you, but I was running across so much nonsense with my wireless that I spent an entire weekend running Cat6 cables through my basement and now have my core systems hooked up via GigE, such a relief. The remaining systems on wireless seem to run faster, maybe less wireless traffic helps.
 
Well it does appear to be my service provider, they think it's the modem for some reason, we'll see!


I hooked directly to the modem and ran a speed test with the same craptastic results.


I hate troubleshooting when you have wifi everywhere. i do have low noise, coming in at like 25% and the monitoring program reports that as "low"
 
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