Topic: Wireless sloooow

[KnuckleBuckett]

Hey.

Get a guy at work who just purchased a new laptop.  Built in wireless.  Connects to his home network with full signal at all times.  However actual communication to the internet is either extremely slow or despite signal strenght it just won't communicate at all.

He has three other PCs on the same wireless network (PCI and USB adapted) that have worked well for about a year.  Router is a Linksys.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Knuck

[ober]

Has he updated the drivers?  I've found that I can have "excellent" signal on my laptop throughout my house, but the actual connection speed isn't always at full tilt.  It SHOULD connect at 54mbps... half the time it's only 24... or even less.  And it's considerably slower than anything connected to the ethernet, although the actual speeds suggest that it shouldn't be.

I'd suggest having him go to a hotspot elsewhere (Borders?) and testing the speed there to see if it's the laptop or his network, although it does sound like something with the laptop.

[Perspective]

I think he needs to get some Speed Spray

[KnuckleBuckett]

Oh niiice Persp.