Wireless Networking

[Beleg Strongbow]

I have a linksys wireless router that connects 3 PC's (USB adapters) and 2 notebooks (internal prefab setups) to my cable modem, all on the b standard. However, as you might expect my own computer (which is wired to the cable modem) runs considerably faster on the internet than the wireless computers. This is not really a problem for the notebooks or two of the PC's, because these are relatively close to my router, but one of the PC's is on the other side of the house about about (50-60ft away), so even though it is technically in range it runs very much slower than all of the others.

Is there anything that I can do to speed up this computer? My wired computer's bandwidth tests usually come to somewhere between 4-6Mbps, so I don't think that upgrading to the g standard would make a difference, but I'm not sure about that. I've also heard that a range extender wouldn't help, because it would only increase the range of the signal and not it's quality. It's can be annoying when that computer's download spead can grind to a virtual hault while I'm going as fast as ever.

 

[Comraddict]

it is bad latency that comes from weaker connection. You can buy better antenna, or some signal booster.

 

[Grisu]

there are several problems here...

• the data about how far a wireless net reaches is very unreliably and depends heavily on your location, your walls, etc
• all wireless computers in your net share the bandwidth, so the more you hang in there the slower it gets...
• it could be a driver problem, I had serious issues with my notebook connecting to my wireless net, after I switched to an OLDER driver it ran like a charm...

repeaters aren't that great in wireless networks, because the half the maximum bandwidth.....

what is the connection speed you get with your slow pc?