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dragon · 29-02-2008, 00:11

I have 24Mbit broadband and I'm finding that if I'm on wireless I can't actually get the full speed, only if I'm directly plug the laptop into the router via cat5 or on the Desktop thats connected via UPA powerline can I actually hit the full speed.

I don't think there's much I can do about it since my laptop sees 12 other wireless lans in the area and when I did some testing a while back (was before everyone and their dog had wi-fi) i found 802.11G usually topped out at around 22 - 28Mbit/s anyway.

Did wander if its worth looking at 802.11N and if that would give a real world speed bost, downside is the cost and the fact id have to have a dongle sticking out the side of my macbook (I'd need one that supports linux).

At the moment the router is set to auto pick the channel, do you think its worth manually settting it?

the router is an speedtouch 585 v6 that was supplied by my ISP. (I was previously using a voyager 2110 (was the turbo 108 version but i don't have the required cards for that and while i can get it to connect to my current ISP it doesn't seem to support adsl2+ AnnexM)

29-02-2008, 00:11	#1
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	Wireless Isn't fast enough. I have 24Mbit broadband and I'm finding that if I'm on wireless I can't actually get the full speed, only if I'm directly plug the laptop into the router via cat5 or on the Desktop thats connected via UPA powerline can I actually hit the full speed. I don't think there's much I can do about it since my laptop sees 12 other wireless lans in the area and when I did some testing a while back (was before everyone and their dog had wi-fi) i found 802.11G usually topped out at around 22 - 28Mbit/s anyway. Did wander if its worth looking at 802.11N and if that would give a real world speed bost, downside is the cost and the fact id have to have a dongle sticking out the side of my macbook (I'd need one that supports linux). At the moment the router is set to auto pick the channel, do you think its worth manually settting it? the router is an speedtouch 585 v6 that was supplied by my ISP. (I was previously using a voyager 2110 (was the turbo 108 version but i don't have the required cards for that and while i can get it to connect to my current ISP it doesn't seem to support adsl2+ AnnexM)