Only get half my speed

Im on 4mb broadband, when I use my wireless I only get half the speed.

My router is in the same room as my laptop.

Its a Netgear WGR614v6

Is there anything I can do to get a better speed.

thanks

G

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:42:13 GMT, "Geo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>Im on 4mb broadband, when I use my wireless I only get half the speed.
>
>My router is in the same room as my laptop.
>
>Its a Netgear WGR614v6
>
>Is there anything I can do to get a better speed.

Have you tried different channels (1, 6, 11)?

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> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:42:13 GMT, "Geo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> <VYUQh.460$(E-Mail Removed)>:
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>>Im on 4mb broadband, when I use my wireless I only get half the speed.
>>
>>My router is in the same room as my laptop.
>>
>>Its a Netgear WGR614v6
>>
>>Is there anything I can do to get a better speed.
>
> Have you tried different channels (1, 6, 11)?
>

HI there

I will give that a try, so I take it the channel in the admin section of the
netgear should be the same as the channel in the nic.

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:13:25 GMT, "Geo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>"John Navas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:42:13 GMT, "Geo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> <VYUQh.460$(E-Mail Removed)>:
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>>>Im on 4mb broadband, when I use my wireless I only get half the speed.
>>>
>>>My router is in the same room as my laptop.
>>>
>>>Its a Netgear WGR614v6
>>>
>>>Is there anything I can do to get a better speed.
>>
>> Have you tried different channels (1, 6, 11)?

>I will give that a try, so I take it the channel in the admin section of the
>netgear should be the same as the channel in the nic.

Don't mess with the wireless adapter (client) -- it automatically
selects whatever channel is set in the wireless access point/router.

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Geo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Im on 4mb broadband, when I use my wireless I only get half the speed.

Half the speed, compared to what?
Do you have a wired PC connected via the same router?
Can you connect your laptop via wire to the same router?

What speed are you getting, and how are you measuring it?

My Netgear WGR614v4 and Laptop WG511 are capable of 1MBpS on my cable
modem.

> My router is in the same room as my laptop.

> Its a Netgear WGR614v6

> Is there anything I can do to get a better speed.

> thanks

> G




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"Geo" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>Im on 4mb broadband, when I use my wireless I only get half the speed.

Which half do you see?

>My router is in the same room as my laptop.
>Its a Netgear WGR614v6

Ok, so we can assume that you're getting 4Mbits/sec when directly
connected to the router with a CAT5 ethernet cable. Is that correct?

>Is there anything I can do to get a better speed.

Probably, but it takes two to tango. What's on the other end of your
wireless link, how do you have it setup, have you checked for
interference, and how are you measuring the thruput?

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On Thu, 5 Apr 07 05:21:18 GMT , jhwelch@{nojunk}.amherst.edu wrote in
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>You'll see no better than 2Mb since wireless speed is never
>going to be better than half of the internet speed you are paying
>for. Half the time the wifi device is transmitting and half the
>time it is in receive mode.

Sure, but that won't throttle the Internet speed unless the wireless is
dog slow. Even a good "b" connection can be fast enough to max out
4 Mbps broadband.

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On Apr 5, 12:21 am, jhwelch@{nojunk}.amherst.edu wrote:
> You'll see no better than 2Mb since wireless speed is never
> going to be better than half of the internet speed you are paying
> for. Half the time the wifi device is transmitting and half the
> time it is in receive mode.
>

>From what I understand, I think that you are mixing the LAN with the
WAN. The broadband connection has no effect on the LAN wireless.
That is seperate.

If the wireless is connecting at, say 36, then half of that is way
more then 2Mbps. He would have to be stuck with a 6Mbps or less
wireless connection (quite low for same room) to have it become a
bottleneck.