Rubbish wireless speeds

Sizzler

OK....help would be appreciated. I have a wireless router, Im using mac filter to access the modem and the access speeds are reading good at generally 54mbps AND the signal strength reads excellent no matter how close the laptop is to the modem...or how far ! Now for the science bit.....it takes AGES to open up a webpage...why?!? Whats slowing it down? The d/load speeds seems fine, Im not gung-ho on the encryption and the signal is fine so why the feck is it taking so damn long to open up a web page?? Incidentally on ethernet its rocket quick and no issues what so ever! Help !

Karoma

ping www.google.ie ,please.

What OS?
What web browser?
Try another browser(?)

(Check for spyware)

Sizzler

Karoma wrote:

ping www.google.ie ,please.

What OS?
What web browser?
Try another browser(?)

(Check for spyware)

Pings fine, just takes AGES to open a page over wireless, no spyware, running clean on mcafee scan....

Using IE6....

dub45

What do you mean when you say you are using mac filter to access the modem? If you access the modem itself by wireless how long does that take?

Sizzler

dub45 wrote:

What do you mean when you say you are using mac filter to access the modem? If you access the modem itself by wireless how long does that take?

Sorry i just meant thats my medium of security...as oppsed to to using wep ....make sense?

irlrobins

Yea made perfect sense the first time, don't worry.

Edit: Oh and download firefox and see if that has the same problem with opening webpages. That way we can see if it browser or network related.

NutJob

You wouldnt have a bad dns entry?


Post the output from the folowing commands

ipconfig /all
tracert www.google.ie


Download netstumbler and look and see is there 2 wireleess routers in the same channel

Sizzler

sound....leave it with me :-)

dubmick

I'm not getting the best of speeds either.
Using BT 2mb, zxel wirless modem/router

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [66.249.93.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * 21 ms 22 ms bas502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.238]
3 31 ms 25 ms 25 ms vlan501.rt502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.137.125]
4 26 ms 25 ms 24 ms vlan54.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.161]
5 25 ms 24 ms 23 ms ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.18]
6 39 ms 43 ms 45 ms pos2-0.br002.ldn.esat.net [193.95.131.50]
7 42 ms 41 ms 46 ms ge9-0.mpr2.lhr1.uk.above.net [195.66.226.76]
8 42 ms 43 ms 43 ms 213-152-230-99.google.net [213.152.230.99]
9 44 ms 42 ms 43 ms 72.14.238.246
10 45 ms 45 ms 49 ms 216.239.43.91
11 42 ms 44 ms 45 ms 216.239.43.88
12 52 ms 51 ms 53 ms 64.233.175.246
13 52 ms 51 ms 56 ms 66.249.94.46
14 53 ms 52 ms 53 ms 66.249.94.54
15 53 ms 50 ms 52 ms 66.249.93.99

irlrobins

dubmick wrote:

I'm not getting the best of speeds either.

Is this download speeds using wireless or wired connection to router? If it's slow in general then it's a different problem from the OP and you should create your own thread (prob in Broadband forum).

dubmick

sorry for the thread hijacking!
Just slow with the wireless, grand using the ethernet connection.

irlrobins

We'll let you stay so!

Have you got latest drivers install for wireless card and latest firmware for the router? Your pings to the router (192.168.1.1) don't seem unusually slow but after that they are def slower.

NutJob

your netwrk tracert looks fine to me

can u do an ipconfig /all
and post te results i have a gut feeling ur primary dns isnt right

dubmick

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Michael
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Cont
roller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-56-69-2F-9B

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : ZyAIR G-220 IEEE 802.11b+g USB Adapt
er
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-49-00-7D-07
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.33
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 15 April 2006 13:18:32
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 18 April 2006 13:18:32

irlrobins

looks ok to me.

Sizzler

OK...when Im on wireless I cant even ping the router !! Network card can see the router and the signal strength is excellent but literally cant get the connectivity.The plot thickened today though when the wireless option worked for me for all of 20 mins and I could ping away....VERY frustrating!

irlrobins

Have you a firewall running? Zonealarm? Norton? Even windows firewall?

ntlbell

irlrobins wrote:

Have you a firewall running? Zonealarm? Norton? Even windows firewall?

Shouldn't effect his ability to ping the router.

paste ipconfig/all

irlrobins

ntlbell wrote:

Shouldn't effect his ability to ping the router.

paste ipconfig/all

Shouldn't, but can on occasion. Norton is well known for messing up network connections.

NutJob

Check ur DNS settings on ur router

Im willing to put 20 euro down that ur primary dns is wrong

if u do a nslookup google.com it should take about a min to timeout
Then ull get a result from ur secondry dns

but if u ping the ip u eventually get it will work almost instantly


If ur still stuck and in Dublin PM me and for a cup of tea ill fix it