Speed Question

[beltran22]

My mom and I both connect wirelessly through a linksys router.

 

Her download speed is about 5500kb/s. Mine is about 600kb/s. I am not that much farther from the router. (I'm upstairs, she is in same room). Also, on my old laptop, I get about 5500kb/s.

 

Could there be something I need to tweak with my computer? Or is this normal?

 

Also, I use Vista.

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT

 

 

 

Yay!

 

Could it be my moms computer is off right now?

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT 2

 

 

 

Wtf?

 

Now 5 min later i get this.

 

 

Same conditions on my computer as above, to.

[J35u5_M4]

well, it can depend on what are you downloading, if it is a heavy file it can be slow to download, if not then the Internet thing is giving more connection to your mom?, Not sure about that :S

[r2d2]

if she is connected directly to the router, it would make sense, but still, by being closer it takes less time for stuff to get to the router, so she would get more speed.

[beltran22]

if she is connected directly to the router, it would make sense, but still, by being closer it takes less time for stuff to get to the router, so she would get more speed.

 

Well, I'm not downloading anything, thats just a speed test.

[Doomster]

The wireless thing in the tray, does it flip between signal good and signal poor?

 

 

 

Wireless signals to upstairs can be pretty horrible - try laying the router aerial down, if you are more or less over it, as it needs to be broadside to where you want most signal.

[Hobgoblin11]

if she is connected directly to the router, it would make sense, but still, by being closer it takes less time for stuff to get to the router, so she would get more speed.

 

 

 

The waves converying the information is travelling close to the speed of light, I'm not sure being upstairs would significantly increase that time :wink: I know what you mean though, I'm only playing.

 

 

 

As Doomster said, being upstairs can be a problem. When we installed a wireless router in our house, we have one particular surporting wall that blocks signals particularly well. If you were stood right on the other side of that, the signal would be reduced but you would still get a signal. Now, if you were the other side of it, and upstairs, if you imagine drawing a line from you to the router, the signal would have to go through maybe, 2 feet of that wall, because it is going across and down, diagonally through the wall. It may be the structure of your house that is affecting your speed, rather than the physical distance from the router. If you can buy an aerial on a wire for your network card/reciever, and trail that out the door to the room you're in, you may find that you get a better signal.