amsterdam84 Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 I think that could be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc8oye Posted December 27, 2010 Author Share Posted December 27, 2010 strange strange strange... it's been working great for nearly a month now. and then right back to being stupid. Â that other wireless network has changed SSID's and Channel, so I'm guessing we were interfering with each other... Â i just went through a long episode of not being able to establish a connetion to the router.. nearly 2 days.. i reset the router, changed every setting I could think of.. nothing.. the software would turn green saying it connected to the router, then where you would expect the DHCP information to show up, it would drop everything and go back to 'scanning' Â just out of curiosity's sake, I disabled the software that came with the NetGear adapter, and used XP's network connection manager. it immeidately told me it couldn't connect to the network.. then after a couple more tries, it DID connect and is holding fairly decent transfer rates... Â so no I'm REALLY not sure if it's my adapter/software or the router *sigh* at least it won't matter much longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam84 Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I really don't like the software that controls the connections. I have a linksys router and used to use a wireless-g card in my desktop. The software for the card that controlled the wireless connections would always show low connection and often wouldnt let me connect at all. I switched to the windows software and it started working no problems. Even my router came with software that says you must use but I didnt put that in either and have no problems with that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 With most computers running Windows I have found the software that comes with the wireless adapter is worthless. Let Windows manage it and you are better off. We had some laptops at work that was the only way to get a reliable connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc8oye Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 my Dell laptop came with WiFi built it.. and it just used the Vista networking and it worked great. Â I just can't explain the on-again, off-again nature of this beast.. if it doesn't work, I should be able to fix it and get it going again.. but i dunno.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc8oye Posted January 8, 2011 Author Share Posted January 8, 2011 it looks like it was her router the whole time. I'm connected to a Belkin router right now using 'n' at 135mb/s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam84 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Glad you got it figured out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc8oye Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 running a little slower tonight.. only 216mbit/s! Â I'm not sure if it's the router, or maybe this interface being that it's intended for high speed operation, just doesn't like doing 802.11g, or what..but I set mom up with the same wireless adapter the other day and her computer loves it too. I'm not using the NetGear software tho.. her machine is Windows 7, that was 'fun' trying to get that interface to work with 7... got it in the end tho.. and I'm of course on XP Pro sp3. Â is it possible the encryption method would make a difference? IIRC, that 2wire only supported WEP. I'm using WPA with mom's router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Just remember that you can have the fastest connection in the world to the router, and still have a slow Internet connection. Those fast speeds are only good if you are transferring files between local computers on the same network Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc8oye Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 i know ian. I'm not sure what the internet speed was at my cousins.. besides the obvious "turtle" Â Mom has 6mbit cable which runs circles around DSL. Â I was only getting between 1 and 24mbit to my cousin's router that's why I mentioned the speeds here at mom's for comparison.. I changed nothing on my computer except the router I was connected to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangeba Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I just checked my speed and got: 11.45 Mbps download and 1.06 Mbps upload speed. I read the Upper case M is different than the lower case m for amount of data (Mega v.s micro? something) Â Is that any good? Do I need a better 4 BBL carburetor or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I hear you Tim I hate computers!!! Â Bruce that is a pretty good connection. Â Here is mine on Verizon FIOS Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc8oye Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011  mine is bigger  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam84 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 The big B is megabyte. The little b is megabit. One MB is equal to eight Mb. Â So to use an average 13.3MB, you have a speed of 1.66Mb/second. Â Us Canadian folk do not get your fast speeds. You pay a premium just to get 9MB in some cases. I pay more than $50 for 6MB download and 350KB or .35MB upload. You fancy people and your fancy internets....grumble grumble grumble.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCfan Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011  mine is bigger  Than what?   Whatever it is, I'm not paying extra to get it and don't know why I'd want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capri's 71 SS Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Â wow mine looks pretty darn sad for being a cable connection.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
502ci Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 I do not know how to read this but I'm thinking it is slow compared to everyone elses. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capri's 71 SS Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 at least someone is slower than me, Bill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monte70car Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 I wish my upload was as fast as my download my desktop is a little higher then this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallaby Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 There is another button on that Speednet page that detects windows errors: it finds the supposed errors that could slow you down, but you have to purchase to get the problems fixed. I dunno....is it worth it, or could it lead to other issues? Of course they identify hundreds of problems that "need" to be fixed right away... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam84 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I would think that many of those errors are manufactured to worry people into buying software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte7071 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Mine at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam84 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Looks like I have the lowest ping. At least thats something. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCfan Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Looks like I have the lowest ping. At least thats something.  Having the quickest ping should be good for something, Mike (if nothing more than waking up the server)!! Do you live next door to the server location or is it perhaps due to the increased speed of electrons at cryogenic temperatures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallaby Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Another fact of physics. I think electrons are the only things that speed up as temeratures go down. Just like water is the only thing that expands as it freezes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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