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Slowed internet wifi speeds
I have been experiencing slowed wifi speeds. I have cleared my internet history, temp files, and cookies but no improvement. Under my wifi connections my speed used to read 100mbps but now only registers at 65 mbps. Any ideas on how to get the speed back to where it was!
Thanks in advance for any help,
Trikein
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12 years ago
The speed your refering to is just the connection rate. Think of it as the speed limit on the road. It doesn't tell you how fast your going, just the fasted hypothetical speeds on the connection. Usually the real world speeds are alot lower then hypothetical speeds. Usually a wireless network will decrease the rate when the signal level decreases, so thats probably happened.
Why that happened, I am unsure. What kind of router do you have? And what kind of laptop? Tell me a little bit about your network?
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Well I used to be able to stream video flawlessly from my laptop to my xbox 360 or to my TV but for the last month and 1/2 that is nearly impossible. I'm running a home network consisting of 2 laptops and a Wireless HP printer (same components for 2yrs now) my router is a Netgear wnd3700V2 and the main laptop that is on 100 % of the time is a 2.5 GHZ HP High Definition dv7 notebook optimized for Entertainment and Gaming with Blu Ray burner and 17.5 in HD screen. Since the readings are a connection guide only it must just be a coincidence that the performance dropped off when the numbers changed. I build computers and have a relatively good grasp of the computer sciences but this had me stumped. Thanks for your assistance
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Trikein
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12 years ago
Well the connection rate is usually proportionate to the wireless signal, and while connection rate itself doesn't apply a bottleneck, wireless signal problems that cause the connection rate to drop can cause performance issues. It has to do with spatial streams but its all very complicated. Wiki would do a better job defining it. Not going to lie, troubleshooting wireless performance issues is kind of complex.
I think the easiest way to define the problem is walk around your house and look for places your wireless drops abnormally. I'm not talking the basement of course, but areas in your house where you should get good signal and you don't. This might point out any interference causes. Some interference might be too subtle to effect signal levels, so you might want to use speedtest.net too and run some tests in places you normally have your laptops and then one in the same room as the router and compare. Then use inSSIDer and look for congestion on the particular wireless channel you are on. Then if you do see congestion, I will show you how to change the wireless channel or perhaps even enable some advanced wireless settings to get around the problem.
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