Wireless laptop broadband browsing slower than dial-up

McGraw · 11-05-2005, 09:03

Recently I've set my Dad up with Belkin 125 wireless gear.

He has a Wireless G 125 Router, PCMCIA and PCI card.

I couldn't set up his laptop as his work had only given him basic rights.

He took it to work and they put in the settings I had written down as per the router. They have also given him a guest account which supposedly gives him admin rights.

It connects to the router absolutely fine and gets about 40Mbps with the router hidden under a table upstairs. Not brilliant but good enough for the time being.

His laptop is a Toshiba 800mhz PIII that according to device manager has built in wireless. This has been disabled. It is running Win 2k sp4.

The problem is, that browsing is slower than dial up. It takes at least one minute for the MSN.co.uk page to come up.

I can't do anything as I'm not due to visit for a few weeks.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers.

McGraw · 11-05-2005, 21:51

Update.

Connecting striaght to the router is absolutely fine.

Chris W · 11-05-2005, 23:09

ping the router and see what response times you are getting... should be <10ms

what is the wireless signal strength showing up as?

McGraw · 12-05-2005, 08:50

I'll get my Dad to ping the router today.

The wireless strength is good upstairs (80Mbps) and medium downstairs (40Mbps).

The browsing speed is okay but not brilliant next to the router and pathetic downstairs.

I used 64bit WEP as that's all my pc will do. The kit will handle WPA.

Do you think it's an encryption problem?