Re: Broadband speed but incredibly slow wireless

Richard_B <Richard_B.2xn0op@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> hath wroth:

>My internet speed is around 10 Mbps. Pages load in less than a second.
>However, when I use the wireless internet, pages that normally load in a
>second now load 20 seconds and sometimes up to a minute. The little
>wireless icon in my taskbar says this:
>
>Wireless Network Conneciton (NETGEAR)
>Speed: 54.0 Mbps
>Signal Strength: Excellent
>Status: Connected
>
>Can someone help me out here? Why is my wireless so slow and why does
>the icon say it's incredinly fast?

Any particular Netgear? Is that the router or the client radio? If
the router, what are you using for a client radio? Numbers please?

After you describe your configuration, try this simple test.
Start -> run -> cmd <Enter>
ping -t ip_address_of_router
What you should see is a consistent 1 or 2msec ping time. If you get
much larger delays, really erratic large numbers, or time outs, you
have a case of packet loss. That can be caused by quite a few things,
none of which I can determine without knowing your RF environment. For
example, if the city has installed a metropolitan wireless LAN access
point outside your window, you're going to have interference problems.
See if the any of the following sound familiar:
<http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi#Interference>

Also, if your unspecified router is a Netgear, you might want to check
the Netgear web site for updated firmware. This has solved packet
loss and flaky connection problems for me on various models in the
past.

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I'll get the router info later, but I did the cmd thing and this is what I got:

Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

etc...

Richard_B wrote:

> I'll get the router info later, but I did the cmd thing and this is what
> I got:
>
> Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
> Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
> Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
> Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>
> etc...
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/alt-internet-wireless/re-broadband-speed-but-incredibly-slow-wireless-29632.html
> http://www.wirelessforums.org
>

That demonstrates that the link between your PC and your router is very
healthy -- it makes the "54 Mbps/Excellent" report credible.

Next, if you have two PCs on your LAN (one wired and one wireless) try
PINGing WiredPC from WirelessPC and WirelessPC from WiredPC to see how
quickly your router routes traffic between the wired segment and the
wireless segment.

Then, PING www.YourISP.com from WiredPC and from WirelessPC. That
should give you a clue to the source of the bottleneck.
--
Cheers, Bob

Richard_B <Richard_B.2zed87@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> hath wroth:

>I'll get the router info later, but I did the cmd thing and this is what
>I got:
>
>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Could you supply the article number or reference the original
question? I failed to find any reference to a problem or previous
posting.

Incidentally, the router is usually 192.168.1.1. If you run:
Start -> run -> cmd <enter>
ipconfig
the router IP address is the one on the "default gateway" line. I
think you're pinging your own workstation, and not router. It's very
rare that the wireless latency is less than 1msec, while this is very
common for pinging your own IP. Try again.



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150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:42:13 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote in <0h6mi39ijb6cbts53jc8u6f1vm89oq8guk@4ax.com>:

>Richard_B <Richard_B.2zed87@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> hath wroth:
>
>>I'll get the router info later, but I did the cmd thing and this is what
>>I got:
>>
>>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>>Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
>
>Could you supply the article number or reference the original
>question? I failed to find any reference to a problem or previous
>posting.
>
>Incidentally, the router is usually 192.168.1.1. If you run:
> Start -> run -> cmd <enter>
> ipconfig
>the router IP address is the one on the "default gateway" line. I
>think you're pinging your own workstation, and not router. It's very
>rare that the wireless latency is less than 1msec, while this is very
>common for pinging your own IP. Try again.

I think it depends on the particular wireless router and its load --
I'm pretty sure I've seen pinging of a wireless router with time<1ms,
although the one I'm currently on is time=1ms:

| >ipconfig
|
| Windows IP Configuration
|
|
| Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
|
| Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
| IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.15
| Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
| Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
|
| >ping 192.168.1.1
|
| Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
|
| Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
| Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
| Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
| Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
|
| Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
| Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
| Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
| Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms

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