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Title: Little help setup/speed
Post by: mrshowfan on July 30, 2009, 08:43:30 PM

So,

I just moved and I'm having trouble with the 825. I'm not using the laptop I normally use which is new, but rather, an older one that my fiance used. Its an Averatec laptop that runs XP (sp2). Internet works fine with a direct hard wired CAT 5 connection to the laptop (100Mbps). The router though seems to be slow. I have an 802.11 g wireless adapter, so I understand that I'm not going to get the 5Ghz frequency, but the 2.4Ghz is really slow (5 down, 3 up) and I have it less than 2 or 3 ft away from the laptop.  I'm probably missing some simple setup item, but have come to the experts. Any help would be awesome.

Back to reading the users manual.

Title: Re: Little help setup/speed
Post by: smlunatick on July 31, 2009, 08:46:34 AM

Wireless networking is not affected by either the 2.4Ghz or 5.0Ghz radio band.  It is controlled by the wireless network adapter, which for you is limited to 54MB/s (802.11G.)  Wireless 802.11G wireless networking will give upto 54MB/s communication speeds.

Title: Re: Little help setup/speed
Post by: mrshowfan on July 31, 2009, 10:06:21 AM

Thanks! Well, I reinstalled today (the old helpdesk trick) and have everything up and running. Sadly at 54Mbps. I cant wait for my other computer to get here. I do appreciate the help.

I think also yesterday I had the security setting at WPA but the laptop is so old it can only handle WEP. I think that also added confusion to the problem. After a while yesterday I wasnt even able to log onto my network without the "network password binary/hex error" coming up.

Oh well. Lessons learned.

Thanks again!