Wireless woes
Posted: Mon 05 Mar, 2007 22.01
OK...I'm at my wits end on this one.
I'm experiencing painfully slow speeds over my wireless router (which has a cable modem connected to it) and it's also suffering from dropouts - but not causing the wireless network itself to disconnect.
I'm on 4Mb broadband and although I understand there's a bit of give either way my connection tends to be anything between 0.3Mb sometimes getting up to a lucky 2.5Mb.
When I plug the modem straight into my laptop via ethernet the connection is fine and regularly hits just below 4Mb.
I've got a Belkin wireless router (Yes I know my own fault!!) but it seems to have gradually got worse and browsing is crawly to dial-up speeds.
As far as I know there's some issues with Virgin Media in my area at the moment but it still doesn't explain the difference - especially when I'm sitting opposite the router!
I've fiddled with every single setting and no luck. Any ideas?
I'm experiencing painfully slow speeds over my wireless router (which has a cable modem connected to it) and it's also suffering from dropouts - but not causing the wireless network itself to disconnect.
I'm on 4Mb broadband and although I understand there's a bit of give either way my connection tends to be anything between 0.3Mb sometimes getting up to a lucky 2.5Mb.
When I plug the modem straight into my laptop via ethernet the connection is fine and regularly hits just below 4Mb.
I've got a Belkin wireless router (Yes I know my own fault!!) but it seems to have gradually got worse and browsing is crawly to dial-up speeds.
As far as I know there's some issues with Virgin Media in my area at the moment but it still doesn't explain the difference - especially when I'm sitting opposite the router!
I've fiddled with every single setting and no luck. Any ideas?