DSL+wireless router = slower than Dialup - Why?

I have a new Netgear wireless router, a higher-than-normal DSL connection
via Verizon, and a new high-end Sony laptop. The Mbps speed is constantly
dropping from 54 Mbps to 1.0 Mbps, often getting stuck around 12 to 23 Mbps.
As we speak, it's showing 2.0 Mbps. The result is a connection slower than
a 56k Dialup connection.

I've run speed tests and it consistently shows an average speed worse than
Dialup. I've run Norton anti-virus, anti-everything and the system is
clean. Pandasoftware also says the system is absolutely clean.

I'm sitting within 15 feet of the wireless router. The connection is
secured and there is no one else using the it. I'm in a residential
neighborhood in Santa Monica, CA., and there are no abnormal electrical
anything operating here or anywhere in the neighborhood.

The speed seems to drop when I try to go to a new website, to any new
website. At those times, the progress bar on this IE 6.0 browser often
indicates that it's stuck, that nothing is happening.

I don't recall if the router is a B or G, but I recall that it was the
better of the two. Does anyone know why there is a constant failure of this
NetGear wireless router?

Thanks,

Scot wrote:
> I have a new Netgear wireless router, a higher-than-normal DSL connection
> via Verizon, and a new high-end Sony laptop. The Mbps speed is constantly
> dropping from 54 Mbps to 1.0 Mbps, often getting stuck around 12 to 23 Mbps.
> As we speak, it's showing 2.0 Mbps. The result is a connection slower than
> a 56k Dialup connection.

I think you're confusing your local network speed with your Internet speed.
Even 2,000,000 bps is faster than 56,000 bps.
I suggest you connect your laptop directly to your wireless router with CAT5
cable and check your Internet and local network speeds. Compare your Internet
download speed test to the advertised speed your ISP is providing you. Do you
have more than one computer on your network? If so do both computers have the
same perceived speed issues. 12 to 23 Mbps is not a bad wireless network
connection. 2 Mbps is not a bad Internet download connection.
If your hard wired connections are much better than your wireless connections
than you need to trouble-shoot your wireless network.
There are more knowledgeable folks on this NG to help with that.

> I've run speed tests and it consistently shows an average speed worse than
> Dialup. I've run Norton anti-virus, anti-everything and the system is
> clean. Pandasoftware also says the system is absolutely clean.
>
> I'm sitting within 15 feet of the wireless router. The connection is
> secured and there is no one else using the it. I'm in a residential
> neighborhood in Santa Monica, CA., and there are no abnormal electrical
> anything operating here or anywhere in the neighborhood.
>
> The speed seems to drop when I try to go to a new website, to any new
> website. At those times, the progress bar on this IE 6.0 browser often
> indicates that it's stuck, that nothing is happening.
>
> I don't recall if the router is a B or G, but I recall that it was the
> better of the two. Does anyone know why there is a constant failure of this
> NetGear wireless router?
>
> Thanks,

Sounds like a bad case of radio interference...

Have you tried changing the channel of your wifi router ?

Start on channel 1 then 6 .. then 9.. if you find one that works well stick
with it.

Doz

"Scot" <greatscotinla@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0HF2f.1364$y14.323@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> I have a new Netgear wireless router, a higher-than-normal DSL connection
> via Verizon, and a new high-end Sony laptop. The Mbps speed is constantly
> dropping from 54 Mbps to 1.0 Mbps, often getting stuck around 12 to 23
Mbps.
> As we speak, it's showing 2.0 Mbps. The result is a connection slower
than
> a 56k Dialup connection.
>
> I've run speed tests and it consistently shows an average speed worse than
> Dialup. I've run Norton anti-virus, anti-everything and the system is
> clean. Pandasoftware also says the system is absolutely clean.
>
> I'm sitting within 15 feet of the wireless router. The connection is
> secured and there is no one else using the it. I'm in a residential
> neighborhood in Santa Monica, CA., and there are no abnormal electrical
> anything operating here or anywhere in the neighborhood.
>
> The speed seems to drop when I try to go to a new website, to any new
> website. At those times, the progress bar on this IE 6.0 browser often
> indicates that it's stuck, that nothing is happening.
>
> I don't recall if the router is a B or G, but I recall that it was the
> better of the two. Does anyone know why there is a constant failure of
this
> NetGear wireless router?
>
> Thanks,
>
>

Doz may have it right. Often the default wireless channel is channel 6,
which is the same as 2.4GHz wireless phones, if memory serves. Change your
wireless network to some other channel once you've verified you don't have
the problem with a hardwired connection.





On 10-Oct-2005, "Scot" <greatscotinla@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have a new Netgear wireless router, a higher-than-normal DSL connection
> via Verizon, and a new high-end Sony laptop. The Mbps speed is constantly
>
> dropping from 54 Mbps to 1.0 Mbps, often getting stuck around 12 to 23
> Mbps.
> As we speak, it's showing 2.0 Mbps. The result is a connection slower
> than
> a 56k Dialup connection.