Problem with wireless adapter or access point

GunJack

Wammer wrote: »

I am using this site to check the speed

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

How do I check the wifi connection speed?

As I thought, you've been referring to internet speeds, not your wifi connection (i.e. between laptop and whichever router it's connected to) Don't have my W7 machine handy to check.. on XP it was easy, just hover over the wifi icon in the notification area and it'd tell you the wifi connection speed, OTTOMH it's buried somewhere in the network adapter properties on 7 and Vista. The wifi speed is likely to be between 11 meg (802.11b) and around 270 Meg(802.11n), and is not likely to be any lower, even with a level of interference.

Wammer

Thanks. I have gone into Properties for the wireless adapter, but can't see anything there about speed.

GunJack

Got an ethernet cable handy ?? Would be worth repeating the speedtest wired and wifi back-to-back to see the difference...

Wammer

I tried that about a month ago when I was having problems connecting at home.

[FONT=&quot]Tried it with an Ethernet to the router and got 5.5Mbps, tried it wireless next to the router and got the same. Using it in the kitchen, where I normally use it, I got 2Mbps.


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GunJack

in that case, have you run inSSIDer to see if you're getting wifi interference ??

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/

Wammer

I already have inSSIDer which is showing that I am the only one on Channel 1, there are 4 on Channel 11, one on Channel 6 and one on Channel 8 although the last two aren't showing on the graph.

How do I check if I am getting wifi interference as it isn't mentioned in the User Guide?

GunJack

If there's no other router's graph overlaying yours at all then that's fine, but you can also see the signal strength you are picking up from your router, if it's better than -60db-ish that shouldn't be the problem and it sounds more like internet itself rather than a wifi issue. Can you post the line stats as asked for earlier ?

Wammer

The signal strength is -69db.

Sorry, I can't see where my line stats were asked for. Here they are

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 6141 kbps 797 kbps
Line Attenuation 45.5 dB 28.7 dB
Noise Margin 8.5 dB 12.0 dB

Would they be the same taken on the desktop or the netbook?

debitcardmayhem

Wammer wrote: »

The signal strength is -69db.

Sorry, I can't see where my line stats were asked for. Here they are



Would they be the same taken on the desktop or the netbook?

Yes they are for the router, and you should probably get 85% of the downstream rate i.e. circa 5mb

GunJack

:wave: @ DCM Hanx mate, beat me to it