Slow speed, what is wrong? in Wireless Networking http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r7014329 en Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:06:56 EDT Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:06:56 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7041084 Matthew_745 : To be honest I have my connection set to 2 megabit, simply because I want a bit more range. I get full signal strength and link quality at 11mb when I'm near the AP, but I have never verified that this is the actual transfer rate.

Matthew]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7041084 Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:38:17 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7040566 fischmama : hey matthew,

do you get 11mbit out of your connection?? if so please tell me how you did it and what equipment you use?? I know not one guy who gets over 7mbit out of 802.11b!!

cya fischmama]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7040566 Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:33:42 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7040277 Matthew_745 : If your devices are in the same room you should be getting the full 11 megabit, no doubt about it. Unless they told you that 1 Megabyte/second is what you get, which is just about correct, 8 Megabit/s = 1 Megabyte/s.

Matthew]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7040277 Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:04:16 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7039988 TexasGuy : Ok, I called Siemens tech support. They told me that I'm getting 1Mb and I should be happy with it since it is what everyone gets using "11Mb" connection. Are they full of shit? What speed do you get?
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Matthew]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7035849 Thu, 05 Jun 2003 06:42:37 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7031998 TexasGuy : Ok, to clear things up. On Win98SE I have a USB device, on XP Pro machine I have a PCI device. All machines are in the same room with the router and router has optional retail gain antenna (tried both antennas, no difference).

So, yesterday I disconnected PCI 802.11b connection on XP machine and used NIC to the router. Benchmarked, got 1.9Mb/340Kb on the first test. Then tried with NetBEUI to send a file and it came out to be 2Mb to the router by wire and from the router by "air" to the USB device on Win98SE machine.

Tried to benchmark Win98SE machine connection to the Net, got 500Kb/250Kb. [Me wanna cry with lots of sobbing]

PS: I got very good connection with cable, never had anything lover than 1.8Mb/300Kbs. At times it is higher than 2Mb. I had cable with NIC connection for 6 months or so, never had speed problems. I doubt that it is the ISP connection that is slow. Plus, I live in "village" like community, we have lots of spaces and 2 floor houses, don't think that we got much of 2.4Ghz traffic here.

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7031998 Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:48:06 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7025486 whizkid3 : Have you tried your wireless link in different (WEP) combinations with a different wireless device? IOW, use a different computer with a different wirless setup. It could very well be that computer, or the USB wireless and its driver. (USB has not been known to supply the fastest connection.)

You must verify if it is either the computer or the router. The only way to do so, is to swap either one of them out for a preferrably different model.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7025486 Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:44:30 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7024265 TexasGuy : Today I networked my two boxes with NetBEUI. So, the transfer speed at WEB64 is 4KB/s between the machines. I'm loosing my head here. Anyone. Help.
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This may also sound strange, but try moving the two wireless devices further apart. With my linksys card I have sometimes noticed a reduction in speed when I am closer to my AP!

Neither of these are brilliant ideas, but it sounds like you have tried everything else, it must be worth a go?

Matthew]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7020365 Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:00:59 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7020359 koopey : ;x yah, probably the router
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-----Koop----]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7020359 Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:00:17 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7019754 splix : If you disabled WEP and you are still getting slow speeds even with 100% signal strength it has to be the router.

Try returning it for a Netgear, D-Link, Lynksys...etc.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7019754 Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:53:16 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7018103 TexasGuy : Ok, I did set it on 64bit on my XP machine. Speed remains the same, even a bit lower.

Then, I disabled WEP at all. Speed is the same, I get 900Kb up and 360Kb down. "Down" speed is very OK but "UP" speed is like twice as slow (at least) [nervous breakdown follows]. My comp is sitting next to the router since I didn't have time to move the router. I'm getting almost 100s on link strength and quality. I have no idea what can be wrong. Do I have to call in tech support? Could it be a router thing? Now I somehow doubt that it is due to WEP since with no WEP I'm getting about the same speed. Ah!!! :( Why me? Why now? ...just a few questions I have...
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Can my low speed be due to WEP 128bit encoding/decoding?


Absolutely. WEP efforts have been known to tax the resources of many routers, lowering their throughput. Setting WEP to 40 bit encoding should pick things up a bit, and be secure enough for your purposes.

Do you really need WEP? If you have only a few wireless clients, and don't mind eavesdroppers being able to only 'see' your traffic, than you can set up MAC address access lists, and disable WEP. You still risk the chance of an 'ARP poisoning' man-in-the-middle type of attack, though. However, this takes a very sophisticated hacker.

If you need WEP, then go with 40 bit. Check your speed and see the improvement.

Also, set you system to accept a minimum 5.5mbps on the wireless. This will still give you the best possible connection to the internet (faster than your 2M/350k even with the overhead). This will probably not improve the slow throughput that WEP is giving you though.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7015699 Tue, 03 Jun 2003 02:39:42 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014822 TexasGuy :
said by koopey See Profile:
set the client machines to, fixed 11Mbps, and retry :|, if cant connect, try using fixed 5.5Mbps, and post results


I did say that I had 11Mb fixed and very good connection. The results as I wrote them above.
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-----Koop----]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014686 Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:32:36 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014674 TexasGuy : I tried now from my XP machine (2200Mhz) that is several feet away. I'm getting 1.4Mb/330Kb. Also, good link but so slow speeds... Am I missing something here 'cause I'm new in wireless "science."

Why in God's name it is so slow?
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014674 Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:31:03 EDT Re: Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014590 koopey : try setting it at side of computer and retry,, try uploading or downloadinf a file from intranet, and post your speeds on it while being at current location and side of router, try switching channels too.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014590 Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:21:15 EDT Slow speed, what is wrong? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014329 TexasGuy : I have Siemens 2624 router and USB adapter of the same brand. I have now Celeron 466 on BX chipset. My "wire" speed was 2Mb/350Kb cable connection to the router (tested 100%). However, my "wireless" speed is low since I installed 802.11b. It is 600Kb/280Kb. The wireless utility that comes with the USB adapter shows 100% link quality and 98% signal strength. Can my low speed be due to WEP 128bit encoding/decoding? I really do not want to disable WEP to experiment because it is such a pain to make to work again on Win98 machine. I set the driver to run only at 11Mb, so it wouldn't switch to a lower speed. I'd really want to get the full speed I pay for to my ISP. As I understand 11Mb is so much faster than 2Mb. I really can't get why would it be that slow when it shows such a high signal strength?
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Who drank has died, who drinks will die. Is he immortal who is sober?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7014329 Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:56:09 EDT