SLOW wireless speeds

So basically - I have been experiencing extremely slow speeds when I am connected to my wireless network. It started about a week ago - so I bought a new router thinking my 5 year old one was dying. But with the new router, the problem persists.

Info: Verizon DSL - connected to the DSL router direct to computer - fast normal speeds. connected to my wireless router which of course is connected to DSL router, through ethernet - internet is fast. However, when connected wirelessly, it is like dial up all over again - maybe even slower.

My phone is 5.8, router is 2.4 - but I hardly use my landline phone so shouldn't be an issue. I use a 2.4 wireless keyboard and mouse, but even when I'm not using it, I have problems, and never had a problem with my old router conflicting with it.

I used a program to search for other wifi networks around me and found a conflict with one other one using the same channel so I changed router channel to 4 - no other network is on that channel. Still slow.

Ethernet connection to my router gives 0% packet loss when pinging, but when I'm connected to it wirelessly I get 35-50% packet loss.

I have PPPoE connection setup with a Keep Alive Connection (30 second redial period - the default). If it matters, it is a Linksys WRT54G. Also I'm connecting with XP Pro laptop with an Intel ProWireless 2200BG. I have the same problem when my VISTA PC is connected with a Linksys USB Wireless Network Adapter.

Here is my speedtest.net results connected through router with ethernet:


And here it is connected wirelessly to my router:

Well .. the test actually wouldn't even finish -- But it was at 46% downloaded at 20kbps -- with a ping of 79ms.


Someone please help me get out of 1990 internet speeds!!

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!

by the way - I thought I should add - my neighbor has cable modem with unsecure wireless and if I connect to them - i have superfast speeds - they also have the same wifi router that I do....




this is connected to them

Out of curiosity what program did you use and what OS?
If Netstumbler and Windows XP there are a couple of problems:-
1.Netstumbler does not show hidden SSID's so you might not have picked up all the AP's.
2.Some wireless cards do not show noise when using Netstumbler and can give a false impression of a good channel. One of my Ralink cards does this and also does it when I use SWScanner in Linux.

WiFi channels do overlap each other and there are considered to be only 3 non-overlapping channels,1 or 6 or 11, in the typical 11 channel system so if you saw a very strong signal on Ch6 but nothing showing on Ch4 you might still find
that Ch6 interferes with Ch4.
I live in a fairly densely populated, WiFi wise, area and had to check signal levels over a period of time and then had to make do with a channel which was 4 channels away from the 2 strongest signals.

I did use netstumbler - and I'm using XP pro on my laptop - my PC is connecting with Vista and linksys usb wireless network adapter. Problems on both laptop and pc.

I changed the channel to 11 - and am still having problems