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Decent wireless router?
I now want to create a wireless network and would appreciate any feedback. There are reports of poor range, dropping connection etc so I'd be interested in any reports of routers that you They are a little more spendy (about $450 for a Aironet 1100), but it is worth it if you want great wireless performance.

More Eircom ADSL info
John F Kappler j...@pceffect.co.uk alt internet wireless Went to a site today where they've been having poor wireless performance. There are a number of reasons why they're having problems which I can work on but one other thing I noticed is, although they've setup WEP encryption, they have not setup their own SSID

Adding a laptop to home network
Brandon wrote: Yes, I have installed updated patches/drivers ... but no change in performance (and my laptop is less than 1 year old). It could also be that your wireless router/access point needs to have its firmware updated. I've read about connectivity issues with some wireless routers - haven't seen any here in

Wireless Broadband recommendations..
I wouldn't be surprised if the Powerbook is updated now, however... it's poor wireless performance is particularly crying out for improvement. However, if it meets your needs now and you can afford it (which I can't), buying now gets you a computer that does what you need. Waiting MAY either get you this computer

Adding a laptop to home network
Brandon bsm...@presentationsdirect.nospam.com microsoft public windows vista general My Vista (ultimate) laptop sits right next to the wireless router, but shows a "good" wireless connection strength, while a XP laptop in another part of the building has "excellent" connection strength. This Vista laptop used to

Poor Wireless Performance
Customer complains of very poor wireless performance. After going through some troubleshooting with him, checking all his settings, resetting and reconfiguring, it turns out to be, the antennas were never screwed on, they arrived back shrink wrapped and never touched. Now, tell me again, have you set it up as per

Poor wireless connection under Gentoo (ndiswrapper)
That doesn't explain why I was not seeing the SSID but its very interesting that the quality of the connection could be affected like that by the CPU. It makes me think that some of my laptop poor wireless performance may be similar. If anyone else has poor performance try an external USB wireless unit on a cable

SSID default
The other HP laptop works fine with either Linksys WPC11 or Orinoco. Both laptops run Windows XP Home. The "bad" one is brand-new, less than 30 days old. I don't know the models right now. Anyone have similar poor wireless performance on a particular PC platform? Bob Babai.

wireless problems with vaio
I will also say that at times the Sprint wireless performance is very good, but those moments have been few and I'm getting very tired of not being able to *rely* on them for *any* Based on what you're saying, the only concrete thing is the poor email service - in your case a bad mail server. Thanks in advance!

Wireless ADSL Modem Shootout
micromoog microm...@gmail.com alt os linux gentoo I'm getting poor wireless performance under Gentoo. I can place the machine in a particular spot in my house (fairly far from the access point), boot into Windows XP, and get a 54Mbps connection with no problems. If I don't physically move the machine at all and

Poor Wireless Performance
All Just wondered if any of you had the Bluetooth Intellimouse (Wireless). I tried the non-Bluetooth version last year, shortly after it came out, and ended up returning it, as its performance was so poor! Anyone know if the accuracy, response etc is improved on the Bluetooth version? Thanks, Al.

MacBook Pro Dual Core 2 poor wireless performance
John Navas spamfilt...@navasgroup.com alt internet wireless On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:46:51 -0500, BostonDriver <BostonDriver.34f...@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote in <BostonDriver.34f...@no-mx.wirelessforums.org>: I'm looking for ideas to help troubleshoot a problem I'm having with very poor wireless performance

Sprint Broadband - Is it the Best Choice - Comment?
The PC is located on the 1st floor, approximately 45' horizontally from where the router is located. When the PC is in the room directly over the router, I get acceptable performance. Are there interference issues with 2.4Ghz phones and or wireless keyboards/mice? Any and all help is much appreciated.

Wireless router behind TV?
It must be some way that Vista is managing the wireless connection that is causing the trouble. Just some things to consider- What is the actual data transfer rate shown by the Vista machine as compared to the XP machine? Is there a significant difference? It's possible that the signal strength indicator doesn't

Poor Wireless Performance
If you're using the Lenovo "Access Connections" utility, it's a parameter of your wireless profile, and the way it's named is confusing (well, it confused me anyway); the "High" setting is for "high power saving" which translates into low wireless performance. When my adapter is operating in that mode, I get poor

Media player opinions
One 6699 one6...@yahoo.com uk comp sys mac I just received a brand new MBP DC2 and discovered a problem with wireless connection. After installing the OS I was able to connect to my wireless Linksys router using the default DHCP setup but I've noticed that the download rates are very low ie 4Kb/sec,

Poor Wireless Performance
Cheers, Dave Ok, been doing some 'experiments' with this yesterday and I've found if I put my wifi router next to the TV the wireless performance seems to be degraded; laptop connects anywhere between 24 and 54Mb with frequent dropouts. If I move it to just 18 inches away from the TV it connects at the full 54Mb

Acer TravelMate 803LCi
... even living here only a km from Sydney CBD, the signal strength is great but the signal quality is poor due to reflection and interference and such, so I get lousy performance. Thanks Quinnum.. your experiences sound pretty typical of wireless performance issues I've heard users report in the past.

SSID default
Halfton half...@pickup.invalid alt internet wireless on the what performance ?: most WiFi systems I've worked with will easily do from 3~6mbits/sec average Orinoco RG1000 & Cisco 340/350 AP's Farallon, Linksys, Dlink, Cisco & Orinoco clients on the poor performance you've seen: try moving your AP to another

Windows Prefetch
anybod...@hotmail.com alt internet wireless Hi, I have an HP Laptop (Compaq nc6120) which has integral Intel Centrino wireless and I also have a Cisco 857W Router. OS is Windows XP SP2. I am using WPA TKIP. On one occasion I noticed that the wireless performance was poor and a set the dot11 interface as follows:-