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Title: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: criss14 on July 26, 2011, 12:33:04 PM
So my download speed is fine with this router but when it comes to upload speed it just doesn't seem to go well. I have 50 down and 10 up but I end up getting 3 up. Can anyone help me? Much help appreciated. Oh and why is it that if I even go two rooms down, my signal drops by one bar?
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: FurryNutz on July 26, 2011, 01:21:21 PM
What wireless modes are you using?
What band are you using? 2.4 or 5Ghz?
Any other WiFi in the area?
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: criss14 on July 26, 2011, 01:42:53 PM
Quote from: FurryNutz on July 26, 2011, 01:21:21 PM
What wireless modes are you using?
What band are you using? 2.4 or 5Ghz?
Any other WiFi in the area?
Wireless N
2.4Ghz
In my house its just two laptops and two iphones and one xbox 360
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: FurryNutz on July 26, 2011, 02:20:52 PM
when your speed testing you you testing over wireless or wired. Never use wireless, just wired.
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: Hard Harry on July 26, 2011, 11:44:54 PM
Quote from: criss14 on July 26, 2011, 12:33:04 PM
So my download speed is fine with this router but when it comes to upload speed it just doesn't seem to go well. I have 50 down and 10 up but I end up getting 3 up. Can anyone help me? Much help appreciated. Oh and why is it that if I even go two rooms down, my signal drops by one bar?

Wireless signal is simular to celluar signal that its hard to say what causes the signal to go down. Three main causes are:

Passive: Walls, floors, glass, metal, anything in the environment between you and the source of the wireless signal. Also your laptop itself can act like a shield, since the antenna is buried inside between the battery and the heatsink, two very good insulators of Radio Frequency (RF).

Active: Cell phones, cordless phones, microwaves, DLP TV's, certain kinds of lights, other networks or other laptops. Anything that puts out RF energy can inter fer with the wireless.

Configuration: This has less to do with interference, and more to do with the way wireless itself works. These days there all kinds of automatic features routers and laptop use to try to constantly keep the connection working. Some of these can cause problem in themselves. Auto-scan, Auto mode, CTS, Short GI, automatic rate, etc.

As for your problem, first thing to test is your speed direct to the modem. Then go wire to the router, then wireless. What is your upload at those three points?
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: uubird on July 27, 2011, 02:07:18 AM
What wireless modes are you using?
 >:( :(
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: jameslieb1 on July 28, 2011, 11:34:55 AM
Have you enabled GameFuel yet?
Title: Re: My speeds are slower with this router
Post by: LookIntoMyEyees on August 02, 2011, 12:09:26 PM
Game Fuel is enabled by default. Unless the user has turned it off manually than he your solution would have a valid point. Have a great day.

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Chris