[corrosive21]

Hi

been googling about and found this place, seems to have some good answers.

I do work as an I.T Engineer so feel free to throw whatever ya want knowledge wise at me.

My issue

I have Virgin Media 20mb

after alot of messing about with engineers i managed to get the directly wired to a laptop connection at the right speed (ranging from 17-18.5mb)

I have also bought myself a WGR614 NEtgear wireless router, and this is where the trouble is starting.

The network is set up fine with regards to connecting to and getting internet.

however speedtests when going through the router can range from 1mb-6mb max.

WAN MDU appears to be set to 1500, which i'm told is right.

Router Firmware is the latest from Netgear.

I've tried with windows firewall on and off, no difference

I'm running Vista 64x which might raise an eyebrow but then i did manage to get it working fine through ethernet.

One thing that was interesting, to make it work properly via ethernet, the engineer yesterday (i wasnt at the house but the girlfriend was) was advised by virgin to download tcp-optimizer.

One theory is that the change made on there works on ethernet but not on the wireless adapter.

I'm also going to take an XP laptop home from work to test that because of VIsta either having strange settings OR the adapter being dodgy, work might let me borrow the router here as well.

just wondering if there's any light regarding speed someone could shed on the subject.

thanks.