Vista & Networks

[You]

When i go to Control Panel > Network & Sharing & Click on view status of my network, it says my speed is 18.0Mbps usually?

Surely something is wrong :S?

[Imagine]

That is your link speed, it's how fast your computer communicates over the network.

[Lycan]

Are you on wired or wireless?

[iFuseDan]

You,

Looking this over, its definate that your on wireless - speeds will drop as signal quality drops. Now this could be caused by being too far away from your router or simply interference, how far are you away from your router? And if its less then 30ft if you were to think about the wireless going in a straight line, how many walls does it go through, or how many electriccal applicances does it pass?

Further questions, how old is your house?


18Mbps however is still faster than your broadband (as long as your not on Virgin's 20Mbps), so you should be fine.

[You]

You,

Looking this over, its definate that your on wireless - speeds will drop as signal quality drops. Now this could be caused by being too far away from your router or simply interference, how far are you away from your router? And if its less then 30ft if you were to think about the wireless going in a straight line, how many walls does it go through, or how many electriccal applicances does it pass?

Further questions, how old is your house?


18Mbps however is still faster than your broadband (as long as your not on Virgin's 20Mbps), so you should be fine.
Wireless, my router is about 40 CM from my PC & yeah, i am on Virgin 20Mbps :P

[Agnostic Bear]

Wireless, my router is about 40 CM from my PC & yeah, i am on Virgin 20Mbps :P

How old is the wireless box, sounds like an old model to me.

[Stephen!]

Are you using a USB wireless adapter?

[You]

How old is the wireless box, sounds like an old model to me.
Two years i think? Netgear 54Mbps WGR614 v6


Are you using a USB wireless adapter?
Nope, network card thing is built into my PC.

[Agnostic Bear]

Two years i think? Netgear 54Mbps WGR614 v6


Nope, network card thing is built into my PC.

Hmm, if your pc is running USB1 it can only do 12Mbps...

[You]

USB1? How do you find out?

[Agnostic Bear]

USB1? How do you find out?

I have no idea, but you live in the same city as me.

Seriously though I really have no idea.

[You]

I have no idea, but you live in the same city as me.

Seriously though I really have no idea.
lol, ooer. I don't live too far from stanground :P

[DaveTaylor]

go to device manager and expand Universal Serial Bus controllers, if any of them contain "Enhanced" it's USB2 if not USB1

[N!ck]

Even if it's USB1 i reckon it would still report the speed as whatever the connection between the card and the router is, as it would just be the interface between the card and computer running at 12Mbps. However it seems to not be a USB card anyway...

From Googleing the router i don't somehow think that is where the problem lies unless the router has been manually set at 18Mbps. Can you give any information about the wireless adapter in the PC?

[You]

go to device manager and expand Universal Serial Bus controllers, if any of them contain "Enhanced" it's USB2 if not USB1
http://i31.tinypic.com/mtpmvb.png

Even if it's USB1 i reckon it would still report the speed as whatever the connection between the card and the router is, as it would just be the interface between the card and computer running at 12Mbps. However it seems to not be a USB card anyway...

From Googleing the router i don't somehow think that is where the problem lies unless the router has been manually set at 18Mbps. Can you give any information about the wireless adapter in the PC?
I don't think it is the wireless adapter because when i was on BT the speeds seemed fine & that was connected to the bt home hub. Is there any commands i can run in command prompt or anything to see information on the adapter?

Edit: Just looked under "network adapters" in device manager and it says "Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter"

[DaveTaylor]

Lol thats alot of USB :| and yes they seem to be USB2 well some of them may-be, most likely to be the IO Panel USB ports

[You]

Lol thats alot of USB :| and yes they seem to be USB2 well some of them may-be, most likely to be the IO Panel USB ports
Are they important? I only have one thing constantly plugged into a USB port o.O!

[DaveTaylor]

Sorry don't quite get what you mean are they important? lol

[You]

Sorry don't quite get what you mean are they important? lol
The "USB Root Hub" lol, what are they for? :$

[GommeInc]

I think they're each, individual USB port. And a Generic USB Hub (which you don't have) is a USB Hub which connects to one USB port, but acts like multiple USB ports, like a Belkin USB Hub.

[You]

I think they're each, individual USB port. And a Generic USB Hub (which you don't have) is a USB Hub which connects to one USB port, but acts like multiple USB ports, like a Belkin USB Hub.
Oh right, tar :P.

[Agnostic Bear]

When i go to Control Panel > Network & Sharing & Click on view status of my network, it says my speed is 18.0Mbps usually?

Surely something is wrong :S?

Lmaoo, I haven't been reading this properly, that's just the speed you're connecting to the VM network dw about it, it's pretty much normal.

[You]

Lmaoo, I haven't been reading this properly, that's just the speed you're connecting to the VM network dw about it, it's pretty much normal.
It can't be too normal, it goes up to 100Mbps is im using a wired connection!

[Agnostic Bear]

It can't be too normal, it goes up to 100Mbps is im using a wired connection!

Yeah wired connections go on hub not link speed.

[iFuseDan]

Just another question - is there anything else connected wirelessly on your router? - also do you have WEP/WPA setup?

[You]

Just another question - is there anything else connected wirelessly on your router? - also do you have WEP/WPA setup?
Nope, there was nothing else connected to the router & yeah, i do/did.

[You]

Just got a free wireless router from Virgin, the speed has gone up to 54Mbps now :D.

[Agnostic Bear]

Just got a free wireless router from Virgin, the speed has gone up to 54Mbps now :D.

Sounds about right.