New Laptop wireless b not working well.

[Perryg114]

Well I got the second new laptop for my wife. The first was an ASUS netbook. The battery died in it and I send it back and upgraded to an Acer AS1410 dual core. The Acer is a nice machine considering that is it About the price of a high end Atom single core machine and it is 4 times faster. The only problem with it is that the b wireless network part of the wireless modem is slow at less than .5Mbps. My Acer Timeline is running at 10 times that speed on the same network. I ran it on a g network and it was between 5 and 10 Mbps which is about the limit of my internet connection.

My question is do many public WiFi hotspots use the b wireless networks or are all of them at least g networks? I am in the process of upgrading my wireless to g and if everyone else is using g then is the fact my b network speed is low important enough to get it fixed. I am tired of sending stuff back and then having a whole new set of problems to deal with.

Perry

 

[bluwing]

Hi,

From what you are saying is that your new laptop is running on "B" not "G". If the new laptop is running "B" then it is only running at best 11Mbps whereas "G" is running at 54Mbps.

Alot of the WiFi hotspots in this area run "B", But they are slowly changing to "G" or even skipping to run "N". Some are running "A"/"B"/"G" and sometimes "N".

Myself, I run a wired router and a seperate Access Point. I can run "A" for my wifes laptop and "G" for my laptop. and still use my desktops that are wired to the router.

I will not buy a all in one router. I like to have seperate pieces. Modem/Router/Switch/Access Point.

bluwing

 

[JackMDS]

Perryg114 you are torturing yourself for nothing.

The Laptop run on G and if the Wireless source is b it defaults to b.

If the laptop it taken out and the free Hotspot is b only their is nothing you can do about it you use what you can and that it. Changing your Wireless at home is Not going the affect for good or bad the outside world.

 

[Perryg114]

I was just trying to find out how many public b networks were still out there. For some reason my wife's laptop run fine on a g network but runs as slow as dialup when on a b network. Slow by a 10th of what it should be running at even on a slow b network. I think what I am going to do is send it to Acer on warrantee and let them fix it instead of sending it back to Newegg and getting another new laptop that I will have to configure then to find out something is not working right on it. Right now my wife can't use her new laptop because it is too slow to even mess with on my old b network. I am trying to get my g network going but I am having problems with the router not talking to my security camera software.

Perry