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Wired connection Slower than Wireless connection

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palladium

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Greetings,

First up, I live in NZ, so a typical broadband speed will be around 2-3 Mbps down and 128-256k up ( that's the one I'm on ). Also, 20GB/mo allowance is considered huge and luxurious, and naturally I can't afford that, so my family and I share a 3GB/month allowance, and when the allowance gets used up, the speed gets throttled to dial up.

We have 2 computers connected to a D-Link G604T wireless router, 1 of which wireless. Now, here's the problem - the wireless notebook consistently load webpages and YouTube videos faster than the wired one ( usually it's the reverse!!!). This effect gets exacerbated when we're throttled to dial up. The specs of each machine is:

Wired - Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB RAM, using FF3.0.5 under vista 64. Connected to the wireless router with a 20m Cat6 Ethernet cable - this is my computer.

Wireless - MBP with 4GB RAM, using Safari ( it's my bro's laptop so I don't really know the specs).

I've tried tweaking the priority settings for both the wireless and wired (LAN) connections, but don't really understand how these work. I also tried playing around with QoS, but it didn't help either ( also don't really know how these work).

So, if any of the network gurus can help me out here, I'll be extremely grateful.

TIA
 
That sounds like a cable problem or a duplex mismatch. Make sure the NIC is set to autonegotiate speed/duplex and the cable is not homemade. Could also try another store bought cable to see if that's it.
 
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