how can i make my wireless connection, download faster...

[heyyo]

i have noticed when i am connected by a cable, downloads are much faster, but when i download wirelessly it is drastically reduced...

can anyone advise how i can get better download rates?

[fireman328]

Originally Posted by heyyo

i have noticed when i am connected by a cable, downloads are much faster, but when i download wirelessly it is drastically reduced...

can anyone advise how i can get better download rates?

Connect with cable always runs faster than wireless as there is a loss factor having to be converted to broadcast, very little loss using Cat 5. I think !

[skyblueheroes]

What type of wireless is it and what card/router do you have ?

[heyyo]

its bt wireless, one of them new ones they provide.....im using my laptop wireless card

[Luappy13]

Originally Posted by heyyo

its bt wireless, one of them new ones they provide.....im using my laptop wireless card

The only real thing you could do which may reduce the speed is:

(and please read to bottom as I put easy things at top)

Make sure you have a good signal... stupid but had to be said.

Make sure you have MTU setting matched on router and pc.

To check this:

start > run > cmd > ping -l 1500 -f www.google.com

If you get a fragment comment:

Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.

then you need to reduce down your MTU on your ethernet adapter to MTU max - 1.

Read some cba to explain all

[Shaun]

Are you running any other wireless devices in your house? I ask as our video sender for the TV completely blocks our router if I set it to channel 6 and either side of it the speed is completely rubbish.

[heyyo]

no there are no other wireless connections, it just seems really slow....is there anyway i can find out if someone else is connected to the network...it is all locked/encrypted etc, but it would still be nice to check..

[janipewter]

Doesn't Bluetooth interfere with 802.11x also, since it runs on the 2.4GHz band?