Excellent wireless connection, yet it's soooo slowww.

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| CROWLEY |

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So, I've had this internet for a long while. Always been lightning like Jacoby Ellsbury. Yet, all of a sudden. It'll be so slow when it says Excellent connection. Myspace band pages don't load, some sites I can't even go to. I disable and enable. It'll fix it for a little bit most of the time. I don't know what to do, any help would be appreciated. I guess XP has a lot of quirks with wireless.


EDIT: I believe I figured out the problem to be a lack of Virtual memory since I ALWAYS have my computer on. When I restart, it fixes the problem. Thanks for all the help I got!
 
| CROWLEY | said:
So, I've had this internet for a long while. Always been lightning like Jacoby Ellsbury. Yet, all of a sudden. It'll be so slow when it says Excellent connection. Myspace band pages don't load, some sites I can't even go to. I disable and enable. It'll fix it for a little bit most of the time. I don't know what to do, any help would be appreciated. I guess XP has a lot of quirks with wireless.
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what type of router?

It might be you need to reboot the router. I notice that with my netgear router, you have to reboot it once a week (or couple weeks) once it slows down a bit.

BV :hat
 
It could also have some form of virus. High connection, but the virus slows it down or something.
 
Bluevoodu said:
what type of router?

It might be you need to reboot the router. I notice that with my netgear router, you have to reboot it once a week (or couple weeks) once it slows down a bit.

BV :hat
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It's a Linksys WRT54G, I've tried rebooting it. Perhaps I should do it more often, I'll try that out see if it fixes it on a more consistent basis. Thanks.
 
| CROWLEY | said:
It's a Linksys WRT54G, I've tried rebooting it. Perhaps I should do it more often, I'll try that out see if it fixes it on a more consistent basis. Thanks.
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have you made sure you updated to the newest firmware?

†B†V† :hat
 
| CROWLEY | said:
I have, yes.
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have you checked all cabling?

Is the modem working ok? or anything over heating?

It could be your "modem" as well.. I had an older Comcast cable modem... and they replaced it with another because it was getting slower. If you rent your modem, you might want to check into that as they replace them for free (at least on my plan and company).

I went from 500-600 KB/s to 1-1.4 MB/s depending on the site.

EDIT: I should have asked... is it only slow via wireless? OR is it slow wired as well?

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Bluevoodu said:
EDIT: I should have asked... is it only slow via wireless? OR is it slow wired as well?

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That would be the first think I'd check. If both the wired and wireless are slow I'd say your router has a problem or you have a virus/malware. If it's just the wireless the computer with the wireless either has a bad card or it could be a virus/malware issue.
 
Wireless connections are always flaky. Unless you have some virus or Malware it will not be because of windows XP that your wireless drops out.

90% of the time it will be because you are getting interference of some type. Did you move the router or the computer? Did you recently purchase a new cordless phone? Maybe your neighbor bought the same router. Regardless, what you can do is going into the setup of your router and change the channel its operating on. You can get to setup by typing 192.168.1.1 into the address bar of a web browser, then typing your password. If you didn't change the password (which i recommend you do) it will default to "admin." I have the identical router and move every 4 months. Each area I have moved to i have had to find a different channel it would not drop out on, and place it in random places around the house until it worked consistently.

You can also try changing the type of security your using. If your using WEP try WAP or Mac address filtering. Sometimes that helps.

You can test the connection itself by connecting your computer directly to the internet box, and to the router by LAN. If it drops out still without using wireless its probably something with you ISP. In which case you will have to phone and yell. Odds are its your wireless though. It always is.


Edit: I find i have the most luck on channel 12 or 1.
 
Rodney Chops said:
Wireless connections are always flaky. Unless you have some virus or Malware it will not be because of windows XP that your wireless drops out.

90% of the time it will be because you are getting interference of some type. Did you move the router or the computer? Did you recently purchase a new cordless phone? Maybe your neighbor bought the same router. Regardless, what you can do is going into the setup of your router and change the channel its operating on. You can get to setup by typing 192.168.1.1 into the address bar of a web browser, then typing your password. If you didn't change the password (which i recommend you do) it will default to "admin." I have the identical router and move every 4 months. Each area I have moved to i have had to find a different channel it would not drop out on, and place it in random places around the house until it worked consistently.

You can also try changing the type of security your using. If your using WEP try WAP or Mac address filtering. Sometimes that helps.

You can test the connection itself by connecting your computer directly to the internet box, and to the router by LAN. If it drops out still without using wireless its probably something with you ISP. In which case you will have to phone and yell. Odds are its your wireless though. It always is.


Edit: I find i have the most luck on channel 12 or 1.
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That sounds like a great idea. Only question I have is if I change the wireless channel will it effect the other people using the connection? I have someone upstairs and downstairs using it, I don't want to screw them over. Also, this problem is not due to them being on the connection.
 
| CROWLEY | said:
That sounds like a great idea. Only question I have is if I change the wireless channel will it effect the other people using the connection? I have someone upstairs and downstairs using it, I don't want to screw them over. Also, this problem is not due to them being on the connection.
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No it won't. However, are you sure they aren't effecting the connection. For starters the connection will only be as fast as the computer connecting with the slowest connection. Also, if they have any garbage on their computer it can effect anyone using the network.
 
Polygon said:
No it won't. However, are you sure they aren't effecting the connection. For starters the connection will only be as fast as the computer connecting with the slowest connection. Also, if they have any garbage on their computer it can effect anyone using the network.
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Well, that's good to know. I really don't think it is due to them, though. I've had this internet for like 2 years and so have they, never had problems. Now, after I set a static IP address it seems I am the only one having problems. Even though I thought static IP's made things quicker for connections.
 
As already said changing the channel does not effect anyone connecting. It just changes how the signal is transmitted, I don't understand it too too much, but think of changing the channel on a router like changing the channel on a radio station. All of the connecting computers will automatically tune to the new channel, and hopefully nobody else is using this channel also. There are programs out there to detect surrounding wireless, but thats a little intense seeings how there are only 12 channels routers are legally aloud to transmit on. So try a few, you will notice some work better then others.

Is there any reason you decided to switch your computer to a static IP? DHCP is generally better unless your trying to host something on your machine, even your router can be configured to 'route' things to the right computer anyways.

You can also flash routers with custom firmware that will allow you to have more control and increases stability. However the WRT54G is a severely gimped router in terms of memory (only 8mb, usually 16 or higher), and you would be very limited to the amount of firmware available.
 
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