Basic airport question

I have very basic question: I connect to my home network wirelessly with a linksys router and cable modem. But the speed is very slow. If I turn off airport and connect to the router, the connection is about twice as fast as using airport. I've had my mac about two years, and maybe I need to update the software or hard ware, but don't know what I need.
When I looked online at the support page, it showed actual hardware (looked like white routers, I guess), which I don't have. I presume I have the airport card, but I don't have a separate apple hardware thing like was shown on the apple site. so I don't really know WHAT I have. When I looked at the version on my airport menu, it showed airport version 427.1.1, firmware 429.6.0, extreme driver 405.1.0, admin util 420.31.0, setup 420.17.0
Can anybody help me?
Thanks, pat

miamigrad wrote:
I have very basic question: I connect to my home network wirelessly with a linksys router and cable modem. But the speed is very slow. If I turn off airport and connect to the router, the connection is about twice as fast as using airport. I've had my mac about two years, and maybe I need to update the software or hard ware, but don't know what I need.
With wireless, is it's hard to troubleshoot air. If your wireless connection is slower than your wired connection, I'd suggest starting with the router. How old is it? Is it possible that it is only 802.11b compliant? If so, you can get a new one that is 802.11g or even 11.n. now as the prices are dropping on those. I would log into it anyway and check the settings. If 802.11g is available and not selected, change it.
Are you in close range of the router when you are using wireless? Are other wireless devices connecting simultaneously? I guess it could be possible that wired takes priority over wireless in terms of how routers work, but I really don't have any idea. Maybe someone else knows about that. But as always with anything that isn't acting up to par, I would repair permissions, repair hard drive, (I don't even bother to verify, just repair) and if that doesn't fix it, then create a new user account, log in to it and compare with your regular user account.
Also the white hardware you saw on the support site, is either the airport extreme base station or express base station, which essentially is a router with print sharing and music sharing. To my knowledge, it has no firewall built in and costs way more than a plain wireless router which is easier to set up. In other words, you don't need one for your wireless connection.

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