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Slow wireless connection (not newb)
Name: dreborn Date: April 24, 2006 at 12:41:50 Pacific OS: XP Pro Sp2 CPU/Ram: 2gb Product: custom
Comment:
i have a dlink 624 rev c router and i am getting an extremely slow wireless connection to my laptop. my laptop is blazing at other hotspots.
i also have computers connected directly to the router and those are blazing as well so it is just the wireless side. I have recently upgraded the firmware on the router because i need it to be compatable with xbox live. Unfortunately, it seems like the firmware is at fault.
anyone familiar with this router/firmware problem or have any ideas what might be up?
Name: najitech Date: April 24, 2006 at 13:57:00 Pacific
Reply:
Not sure if your problem is similar to mine, but I have 4 PCs on my home network: two are wired to my D-Link DI-604 router, and two are wireless. The two wireless PCs have access through a D-Link access point. All four had good network and Internet speeds until I decided to run encryption on the router (WEP). Then my speeds really dropped on both wireless PCs. Once I disabled WEP, the speeds were back to normal.
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Response Number 2
Name: don2006 Date: April 24, 2006 at 16:51:20 Pacific
Reply:
TCPOptimizer.exe www.speedguide.com
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Response Number 3
Name: dreborn Date: April 25, 2006 at 04:49:09 Pacific
Reply:
thanks for the replies...again just to reiterate that i only have mac filtering on and the wireless performance only dropped when i upgraded the firmware.
didn't know if anyone else had this issue when they upgraded.
thanks!
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Response Number 4
Name: dreborn Date: April 25, 2006 at 04:54:20 Pacific
Reply:
also, the problem is with a mac laptop. haven't had a chance to test with a non mac laptop but i do not believe that is the issue since there is no encryption.
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