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665150 2008-05-03 02:10:00 I have a question.Hopefully someone talented can answer this


I have a Netgear DG834G V2

It has a built in wireless and I bought a longer antenna from trademe which is suppose to increase the wireless strength.

I have two people in the hostel and they are within 20m of the wireless.

One of the girl living in the hostel says that her laptop which runs windows Xp sp2 stated that the wireless signal is 3/4 out of 5 bar

Thats really good but the wireless is a bit slow.Website doesn't load really that fast but downloading is fast.

I was wondering if a wireless router which is built into the modem is slower than a stand-alone wireless router?

I'm thinking of taking the Level 1 wireless router from my dad in hk.
Ninjabear (2948)
665151 2008-05-03 03:10:00 I've got a good Belkin wireless modem which replaced a really cheap one before I got a lappy and the Belkin is slower than the old one. Checked it several times. DL speed drops from 1.5 Mbs to 1.3 Fishb8 (484)
665152 2008-05-03 03:15:00 Wireless speeds can vary greatly.

I was at a customers house last week transferring 24Gb of Music from one PC to a NAS device over wireless - painfully slow as the transfer rate was up and down.

In the end I stopped it, and connected VIA a 30m Ethernet Cable - LOTS faster and steady.
wainuitech (129)
665153 2008-05-03 03:58:00 So the conclusion is to try other wireless router.It might improve the speed? Ninjabear (2948)
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