Wireless Network Help

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espresso wrote: »

The DSL-G604T supports 802.11b only I believe, so ensure that b only is selected on your laptops wireless set-up if you can.

Thank you!!! I have had a fiddle about and got it changed to b only and it seems to have helped. Seems to be connecting much faster, so shall see how it goes.

Thanks for the tip!! :beer:

SMC_2

Well changing to b only worked at getting connected but the connection fell to 11Mbps, pages were virtually at a standstill.

Oh well back to the drawing board.

MatrixIII

How long have you had this router and was it new when purchased?

Can you check the event log in your router to see if any problems are highlighted there?

espresso

SMC wrote: »

Well changing to b only worked at getting connected but the connection fell to 11Mbps, pages were virtually at a standstill.

Oh well back to the drawing board.

If your router is the one that I think that it is, it's a fairly old now discontinued model. Perhaps you could confirm the firmware version? If your router is 802.11b it's maximum data transfer rate is 11Mbps but that should be sufficient for your broadband connection, unless you have very fast broadband. What is your normal broadband speed? Speedtest here or here.

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MatrixIII wrote: »

How long have you had this router and was it new when purchased?

Can you check the event log in your router to see if any problems are highlighted there?

It was brand new when we got it, had it a while now, can't think how long off top of my head but over a year anyway.

No problems shown when I log into router.

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espresso wrote: »

If your router is the one that I think that it is, it's a fairly old now discontinued model. Perhaps you could confirm the firmware version? If your router is 802.11b it's maximum data transfer rate is 11Mbps but that should be sufficient for your broadband connection, unless you have very fast broadband. What is your normal broadband speed? Speedtest here or here.

Firmware is up to date according to D Link website.

On laptop it says 54Mbps and it went down to only 11Mbps when I changed to b only.

Using the links you gave the results were

Your link from us appears to be about 0.637312Mb/s

and

Download 620 kb/s Upload 114 kb/s

Nikolai

The 11Mb/s refers to the speed of the connection between the router and the laptop. If your broadband is only 0.6 Mb/s the 11Mb/s is plenty. - ie you could never use all of your 11 Mb/s let alone 54Mb/s.
Where the 54 / 11 will make a difference is in transferring large files between your computers via the router.

SMC_2

Nikolai wrote: »

The 11Mb/s refers to the speed of the connection between the router and the laptop. If your broadband is only 0.6 Mb/s the 11Mb/s is plenty. - ie you could never use all of your 11 Mb/s let alone 54Mb/s.
Where the 54 / 11 will make a difference is in transferring large files between your computers via the router.

Thanks, so why when I changed to b only did the connection went to 11Mbps instead of the normal 54 and try to get any page on the net was taking forever?

Nikolai

There are obviously other problems with your connection which we are trying to establish. However, if the router only uses the 11b protocol, which has a maximum speed of 11Mb/s then you must use this to connect to it, as other protocols are later and are not compatible. Your laptop will be able to connect to both 11b and 11g protocols as it is newer, but the router can only output data to any computer connected to it via wireless at a maximum speed of 11/Mb/s. As this is more than 10 times faster than the speed that data is coming in to it from the web, 11Mb/s will be fast enough for web access.
When the connection speed of your network adaptor is displayed by hovering your mouse over the wireless icon, it will just show the maximum speed for that protocol, i.e 54 for 11g and 11 for 11b.
When the other problems with your connection are sorted, it will be perfectly adequate for web use.

MatrixIII

Is this your router? If so it will support a 54Mbps wireless g connection.