I just bought a 802.11N router,it's a Netgear WNR834B. I also bought the WN311T PCI card. I am very disappointed to see the speeds dropping to 13mbps. I was wondering what you guys take on this router is. What is the best N router? Is there any reason my PC is dropping to those low speeds? Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

Also, I don't know if this is just my laptop, but sometimes webpages won't load. I still have a connection with the router though. I don't know if this is just the internet running slow if the router isn't routing right. Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

Anyone help me out with this? Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

Because you have a wireless card, the speed indicated will depend on the signal quality you get. this is in turn influenced by the distance you are from the router and the objects in your way, ie walls! Check your IP address configuration - if the laptop is not connecting to the internet try allocating a static ip address. Are you transfering large files over the LAN in your house? If you are not, i would not worry about the speed because the speed you can fetch websites from / download from p2p will be limited by the bottleneck of you internet connection. Just because your 802.11N router is faster than your internet connection, you will not be able to surf the internet faster. (you LAN will also be limited to the slowest connection speed also) personally i would have saved the money and bought a 802.11g router as my bottleneck is my internet connection, plus my file server is on 100Mb/s ethernet so i cannot transfer files either direction any quicker!

Well I normally do transfer large files. I backup my movies which are around 5gb's per movie. So, my wireless PC is about 25ft from the router. There is kind of a lot of walls and some devices that would cause interference. I know that getting a faster router would not speed up internet, I just upgraded to 6mpbs. The main reason I wanted N because of the range and high speeds at which I could transfer large files i.e. games, movies, video files, music. Also, I don't normally transfer wireless to wireless. I normally transfer the files from my wireless PC to my wired PC. Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

Actually the 802.11n standard is not finalized yet, the one you are using should be the pre-n version. And since it's new technology, there are risks you can purchase lousy product.. Here are some of my opinions: Go to router vendor website, download and install the latest firmware for your router, install the latest driver for your wireless adapter as well. Then set both router and adapter to use the n standard, fine tune the wireless parameters (basic rate, transmission rate, frame burst, beacon interval, etc) as well if got choices... Why my wireless network speed is slow Hope helps...