Broadband speed but incredibly slow wireless

Just for fun, switch the wap/router to b only (probably b and g at the moment).....Even B at 11 is greater than your 10, so why go thru the extra error checking/network type (b/g) checking?

Richard_B hath wroth:

Any particular Netgear? Is that the router or the client radio? If the router, what are you using for a client radio? Numbers please?

After you describe your configuration, try this simple test. Start -> run -> cmd ping -t ip_address_of_router What you should see is a consistent 1 or 2msec ping time. If you get much larger delays, really erratic large numbers, or time outs, you have a case of packet loss. That can be caused by quite a few things, none of which I can determine without knowing your RF environment. For example, if the city has installed a metropolitan wireless LAN access point outside your window, you're going to have interference problems. See if the any of the following sound familiar:

Also, if your unspecified router is a Netgear, you might want to check the Netgear web site for updated firmware. This has solved packet loss and flaky connection problems for me on various models in the past.

I'll get the router info later, but I did the cmd thing and this is what I got:

Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time

That demonstrates that the link between your PC and your router is very healthy -- it makes the "54 Mbps/Excellent" report credible.

Next, if you have two PCs on your LAN (one wired and one wireless) try PINGing WiredPC from WirelessPC and WirelessPC from WiredPC to see how quickly your router routes traffic between the wired segment and the wireless segment.

Then, PING

from WiredPC and from WirelessPC. That should give you a clue to the source of the bottleneck.

Richard_B hath wroth:

ipconfig the router IP address is the one on the "default gateway" line. I think you're pinging your own workstation, and not router. It's very rare that the wireless latency is less than 1msec, while this is very common for pinging your own IP. Try again.

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:42:13 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

I think it depends on the particular wireless router and its load -- I'm pretty sure I've seen pinging of a wireless router with time