Tweaking performance

I've got Quest DSL and a Quest (Actiontec?) wireless router. The router
is connected to my PC, and my connection speed is acceptable. My wife's
computer, which is ten feet away in an adjacent room, is significantly
slower when surfing the Web. She's using a company laptop, so maybe it
has something to do with the software on her computer. But I'm
wondering if the problem is the wireless connection. If so, is there
anything we can do to tweak her computer?

Sky

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In <(E-Mail Removed) .com> on 7 Apr 2006
15:30:50 -0700, "skyf" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've got Quest DSL and a Quest (Actiontec?) wireless router. The router
>is connected to my PC, and my connection speed is acceptable. My wife's
>computer, which is ten feet away in an adjacent room, is significantly
>slower when surfing the Web. She's using a company laptop, so maybe it
>has something to do with the software on her computer. But I'm
>wondering if the problem is the wireless connection. If so, is there
>anything we can do to tweak her computer?

First test the speed of the connection on both computers.
Try <http://netspeed.stanford.edu/>.

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On 7 Apr 2006 15:30:50 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , "skyf"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've got Quest DSL and a Quest (Actiontec?) wireless router. The router
>is connected to my PC, and my connection speed is acceptable. My wife's
>computer, which is ten feet away in an adjacent room, is significantly
>slower when surfing the Web. She's using a company laptop, so maybe it
>has something to do with the software on her computer. But I'm
>wondering if the problem is the wireless connection. If so, is there
>anything we can do to tweak her computer?

You forgot some information:

computer type and model number
wireless card type and model number
router type and model number

Mark McIntyre
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skyf wrote:
> I've got Quest DSL and a Quest (Actiontec?) wireless router. The router
> is connected to my PC, and my connection speed is acceptable. My wife's
> computer, which is ten feet away in an adjacent room, is significantly
> slower when surfing the Web. She's using a company laptop, so maybe it
> has something to do with the software on her computer. But I'm
> wondering if the problem is the wireless connection. If so, is there
> anything we can do to tweak her computer?
>
> Sky

There are tweaking programs available. One is called "tweakmaster" by Hagel. A
while back running it improved my network / internet speed on a WinMe machine.
There is free trial a but I discovered that if you use it and then uninstall the
program it reverts your settings.
Then there is the issue of does she have "rights" to install software on a
company computer.

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:51:00 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , "DanR"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>skyf wrote:
>> computer, which is ten feet away in an adjacent room, is significantly
>> slower when surfing the Web. She's using a company laptop

Define "Significantly" - 10x slower, 100x slower ?

Anyway if it connects at all, then its not a "settings" issue on the
laptop, and tweaking it won't help.

Just a thought tho - when she fires up the lappy, does she have to
login to her office network in order to get it working? If so, the
slowness isn't at your end, its at the office - you're using a VPN and
all traffic is being routed through the office. My own office laptop
is noticeable slower browsing the 'net than my own PC for this reason,
even tho both are plugged into the same router.

>Then there is the issue of does she have "rights" to install software on a
>company computer.

I missed that bit. If its a company laptop, you should under no
circumstances try tweaking it. Under UK law, and I suspect under US
and EU equivalents, tampering with company computing equipment would
be a pretty serious breach of contract and would leave your wife
liable to summary dismissal.

Mark McIntyre
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