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Thread ID: 134322	2013-06-19 23:42:00	Question on setting up wifi	ianhnz (4263)	Press F1

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1346408	2013-06-20 03:04:00	First thing I would have done. If it didnt come with drivers Open device manager then dbl click on the adapter entry. Then go to details tab change it to hardware ids. Then copy one of the entries here and paste it into Google. This may have given you an idea what it was / and what driver to install for it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1346409	2013-06-20 03:05:00	Thanks, for that. I have an older laptop with a G wifi and the transfer speed, between that and the desktop, is quite slow. Oh well, thought I ask. When/if we get the fibre thats going in, hopefully need faster speeds, no? Wifi to wifi transfers will always be slow as you are then sharing the bandwidth. If you had one machine connected to the router by ethernet then you would get faster transfers.	CYaBro (73)
1346410	2013-06-20 05:06:00	Yeah WiFi is half-duplex, so if you have two of them connected to the router at 300mbps, they're still only going to pump through 150mbps if they're maxing it out (Not gonna happen).	Chilling_Silence (9)
1346411	2013-06-20 23:47:00	hmmn Just been changing the wifi pass in a wirelessN router In the setup menu, under wifi security, was a red message saying that if I used WPA2 that speed would be reduced to half, & that if I want full speed I should use WEP Is this a issue with some routers not having enough processor speed(for encryption/decryption) on WPA2 to get full wifi speed ??	1101 (13337)
1346412	2013-06-21 00:21:00	Sounds like the CPU is too slow to decrypt it fast enough or something, but WEP is flawed and useless, so a router that advises people to use it is pretty bad anyway.	Agent_24 (57)
1346413	2013-06-29 09:23:00	Sounds a bit dodgy - as the RTL8187 family are 54Mbps chips, so you definitely won't be getting 150 Mbps - if the info is correct...	wuppo (41)
1346414	2013-06-29 10:07:00	That might explain the odd 72 Mbit speed then. IIRC some Realtek 802.11b\g cards have a 72 Mbit "Turbo" mode...	Agent_24 (57)
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