Goin nuts over my crappy wireless.

CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
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Basically, I cannot figure out WHY, but my 802.11g wireless card is persistantly stuck at 1mbps. not Byte. Bit. Crap-ola speeds. Running a wire is not an option for me for at least the next few weeks, sadly. Any ideas?
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  • SpoogeSpooge Thunderbolt missile in your cheerios Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 67Members
    What is the brand and model of your router?
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  • kickerkicker Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62397Members, Constellation
    how far away is the router ? ..is there anything between your pc and the router ?
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    Maybe it's time to get some bird food and switch your wireless standard.

    <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html" target="_blank">http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html</a>
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  • PaladinDudePaladinDude Join Date: 2006-12-04 Member: 58881Members, Constellation
    I'm also fed up with wireless, running ethernet cables isn't really an option for me either so I'm seriously considering a <a href="http://www.homeplug.org/home" target="_blank">HomePlug</a> as an alternative. In particular I'm looking at the HomePlug AV system as it would seem to offer close to 100Mbit/s real world speeds (in a house with decent wiring). However I've not tried this myself yet so can only say that in all the research I've done on it there seem to be lots of people achieving much better (and more stable) speeds on HomePlug than wireless.

    I'll update you all once I've tried it out.
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    WRT54G v1.02.7

    My wireless card is a Netgear WG311v3

    Signal strength is 4 bars. It is secured with WPA2-PSK[AES] It is on channel 11. I am maybe 20 feet away frm the router (It is around two corners, however, which is why it isn't at 5 bars)
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Most updated firmware?
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    Yes, latest firmware.


    also

    <a href="http://img16.imageshack.us/i/ssdgsg.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1502/ssdgsg.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
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  • DawormDaworm Join Date: 2009-06-22 Member: 67900Members
    edited September 2009
    Only thing I can think of is your wireless router has it's settings configured wrong.

    If you want to turn on remote access assistance and shoot me your public IP. I can see if I can jump in external and check some basic settings for you.
    (Just shoot me a PM with your IP)

    Ideally give it a 30minute window just incase I don't get the notification straight away.
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    I fixed it, but thanks everyone.
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1727381:date=Sep 16 2009, 02:48 AM:name=CommunistWithAGun)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CommunistWithAGun @ Sep 16 2009, 02:48 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1727381"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I fixed it, but thanks everyone.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    So what was it?
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  • FaskaliaFaskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation
    I am betting on AP set to b draft :P
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Someone with a DS hopped on, and the router was set to autonegotiate but not in Mixed mode?
    The Netgear panel was reporting the estimated speed to the WAN, not the LAN?

    Upgraded to Tomato on that WRT54G and got off the shoddy Linksys stock firmware? And did a site survey to find the least noisy channel and populate it with your own?


    PS- As a network technician, HomePlug/Ethernet-over-Power(EoP) solutions cause nothing but headaches that I had to come in and fix later. I truly loathe those crappy cheapo (yet incedibly overpriced!) kits, as idiots see them as an 'easy out' as opposed to running dedicated copper, or at worst setting up a dedicated closed wireless bridge with directional antennas to get to impossible-to-wire areas (like non-connected buildings with no buried conduit and laws against putting up conduit between the structures, as well as not having the money to spend on a nice low-power targetted bidirectional microwave link... which do NOT fry birds, as the urban myths go). Hell, I'd rather see if I could steal the 'dead' pairs off two POTS lines and use the existing cable... might even get 100mbit if the wiring is clean enough, even if 10mbit is far more likely, as are packet loss issues. Still better than that ethernet-over-power crap.
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