Why am I only connecting at 11mbit to wireless network?

grasscutter

Hi

I currently have 2Mbs eircom broadband with a 54Mbs wireless adapter for connectivity to my pc.

For the first couple of months the wireless adapter was connecting to my eircom router with the full 54 Mbs but lately the connection is continually showing 11Mbps (the signal strength is status excellent ). My friend has a similar setup and is showing the same speed of 11Mbps for connection to his eircom router.
I know this is not a big issue since I am still able to get the full 2Mbs from eircom (since 2 < 11 :-) )but I am curious what might cause this.

Any ideas?

cheers
grasscutter

ps some stats from the router
Speed
2048/256 (kbps)
Line Attenuation
21/12 dB

biko

How is this question quick?

grasscutter

because its about speed of the broadband:D

biko

What's the brand of the router?
Does your friend have the same brand?
Is router set to default or have you been changing settings?

grasscutter

biko wrote:

What's the brand of the router?
Does your friend have the same brand?
Is router set to default or have you been changing settings?

Hi

thanks for the questions.

brand = netopia
friend has exactly same setup apart from the pc
I havent changed any settings

Friend has had bb for 3 months and I have been running the same setup for the past 6 months

cheers

grasscutter

dingding

Have you connected any other wireless device lately.

The router may default to the fastest speed of a connected device.

grasscutter

dingding wrote:

Have you connected any other wireless device lately.

The router may default to the fastest speed of a connected device.

nope.......


the unusual thing is my friends machine is doing the same thing.

stanley1

Try changing the channel it's broadcasting on.

dub45

grasscutter wrote:

because its about speed of the broadband:D

Its not its about the speed of the wireless connection between the pc and the router nothing at all to do with the speed of the broadband connection.

matrim

It sounds to me like you are connecting in 802.11b mode. Check the wireless mode on the router and try to force it to G. I don't know how to do this on the netopia but it should be possible.

grasscutter

matrim wrote:

It sounds to me like you are connecting in 802.11b mode. Check the wireless mode on the router and try to force it to G. I don't know how to do this on the netopia but it should be possible.

that was spot on Matrim.... many thanks

I checked the settings and the mode of operation was set to 802.11b+g so I changed it to 802.11 g only and I am now getting the full 54 Mbps.
So problem solved

hand on heart I never changed that setting and it was working fine up to a few weeks ago. So i wonder if eircom rolled out some new settings to their active dsl modem/routers in the last month or so...?

grasscutter

oh btw

for the final proof.....I just forced the router back to b+g and it went back to 11 Mbps

cheers all

dub45

grasscutter wrote:

that was spot on Matrim.... many thanks

I checked the settings and the mode of operation was set to 802.11b+g so I changed it to 802.11 g only and I am now getting the full 54 Mbps.
So problem solved

hand on heart I never changed that setting and it was working fine up to a few weeks ago. So i wonder if eircom rolled out some new settings to their active dsl modem/routers in the last month or so...?

Eircom cannot adjust the settings of your router.

Moriarty

Moved to wireless.

matt-dublin

is it possible you've changed the settings on the router to turn off boosted mode so its only using 11mb
what frequenct are you using? 802.11b?

if so. it should be 802.11g as that could be your problem.

Have you tried using another computer? what speeds does that achieve?

have you changed the settings on your network card?

Psygnosis

Is you connection secure with WEP or MAC filtering also have you changed router password maybe a case of someone using your broadband and changing the settings. Also could be a uset with a 8.11b connection so make sure you have this set.

grasscutter

Psygnosis wrote:

Is you connection secure with WEP or MAC filtering also have you changed router password maybe a case of someone using your broadband and changing the settings. Also could be a uset with a 8.11b connection so make sure you have this set.

thanks for the reply.
I will check that tonight

grasscutter

thanks for the replies

matt-dublin wrote:

is it possible you've changed the settings on the router to turn off boosted mode so its only using 11mb
what frequenct are you using? 802.11b?

i didnt change any settings

matt-dublin wrote:

if so. it should be 802.11g as that could be your problem.?

thats right it was... I forced the router to use g instead of g+b and that worked

matt-dublin wrote:

Have you tried using another computer? what speeds does that achieve?

no... only checked a similar setup at my friends house but that was showing the same speed as well

matt-dublin wrote:

have you changed the settings on your network card?

nope


Forcing the router to use g seemed to do the trick so happy days


thanks for the ideas

grasscutter

matt-dublin

thats great, no problems