Laptop Connected Wireless = Slow Speed

I have BT Infinity Option 2 and whilst my speed is great the majority of the time I have a problem when using my laptop via wireless connection, there is a big drop in speed when using wireless is this normal or is there any way to improve the speed. I guess I could just use a wired connection all the time.

Your wireless speed is not that bad and your wired speed is very good.
You might get a better wireless speed if you try selecting a channel rather than using smart wireless. This is where you decide which is the best, least congested channel rather than leaving the hub to do this.
You are looking for the channel that has no or the least users on it.
You can download and use inSSider to check for this.
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
This link shows how to select a channel on the homehub
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14094/c/345/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzczMDM3NDIyL3NpZ...
Once you have done this run the speed tests again to see if there is an improvement

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Hi,
I cannot figure out why a NI cDAQ 9191 chassis has connection drops when connected wireless and works
perfectly when connected thru LAN.
I wrote a little test VI to check the connection accuracy. The chassis has a NI 9375 I/O module plugged in.
A Moxa AWK3121 is used as wireles access point. What I do is check 5 digital inputs and control 3 digital outputs.
The outputs are continuously placed on/off at a different rate. I use an event loop and a main loopt that communicates
to the chassis at a loop rate of 10ms.
The chassis, laptop and Moxa A.P. are all close together on my desk. The Wifi signal is excellent.
Now, the code i written is probably not optimal.
But... If I start with connecting the chassis with a LAN cable to my laptop, Wifi Disabled, Linked Local. The communication is perfect.
No drops between the loops and the real time.
No communication errors. Runtime was 52 minutes.
Second test. Connected the chassis to the Moxa A.P. with LAN cable. Laptop connected wireless to the Moxa A.P.
Chassis still in Link Local. Ik can access the chassis in MAX. No problem.
When I run my test, I immediately see loop pauzes. After one minute there can be already a difference of 20 sec.
between calculated looptime and real time. Sometimes the active light on the chassis goes off and on.
When the active light is out, the loop is on hold. (Wich is normal as I assume the DAQ VI's are waiting for response.)
After appr.10 minutes the error -50405 "No Transfer in progress because transfer was aborted by client".
If I look at the timings there is already a difference of more then 5 minutes between the loop timing and the real time.
As last I tested with the chassis and the PC connected wireless to the Moxa A.P.
I did not get the -50405 error, but again loop drops. After 10 minutes there was a shift of 2 minutes.
Has anyone experience with wireless connections with the NI 9191 chassis?
Can I change my code? Did I mis something? (I'm a newbie to Labview)
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Frankie.
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Chassis and Moxa all updated to the latest firmware.
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
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I am not clear on whether you are connecting the two together "in it's own little network" (which implies "router" and not "AP") or if you are connecting to the LAN through the wireless device (in which case it is entirely appropriate to refer to the wireelss device as an "AP"). Your last post about hot spots is what confused me.
But as you said, the biggest worry is the active light. Try using a different router/AP. I've seen routers overheat and reset themselves before due to inadequate heat sinking. i.e., Someone (not me, I swear!) dropped the AP and knocked the heat sink off the chip.
As for the delay, if you are indeed using the Moxa as an AP, are you sure you're connecting to your AP? If you're connected to a hotspot instead, your throughput will be at least halved - and maybe even 1/4 bandwidth if your AP happens to have connected to a different hotspot than you did. If you are using it as a router, try differnt bands or channels to see if you can get around any interference your company wireless network might be generating.
In general, conclude that wireless isn't the best way to connect test devices together.
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Hi everyone... I just want to start by saying that I am a very unsatisfied customer!
I purchased the Linksys E4200 V2 on 02.06.2012 since this is the latest high end router from Linksys which according to the specs and the reviews this router is supposed to be super mega fast...the box should probably say SUPER MEGA SLOW.
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The My Book Duo is connected to the E4200V2 via Cat 6 Cable
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I am getting no more than 20mbs when I copy a 85GB folder from my PC to my external My Book Duo. I expected to get either 1GBPS speed or at least 400MBs speed since all devices are connected via 1GBPS interfaces and the cables ar Cat 6. I am using both the native windows copy and paste and I am also using TeraCopy to copy files.
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With my OLD Netgear router I get speed tests of 28MBS and never 1.5MBS.

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Hi there,
I've got a very similar problem.
I've got the Cisco Linksys E4200 (Firmware Version: 1.0.05 build 7 Aug 23, 2012).
With my previous router, I was able to copy files over the wired network at roughly 11MB/sec (about 100Mbps).
Now, with the new Linksys router plugged in, with the same cables and pcs, etc, I can only get an average copy rate of 4.4MB/sec - under HALF the speed that I was previously getting - and often sustained slow speeds of roughly 1.8MB/sec
Any ideas???
Otherwise I'm returning this router for something else!!!
I can see that you already have the latest firmware. It might be that the firmware is corrupted. What I can suggest is to reflash the firmware, reset and reconfigure the router. You might as well try to disable WMM.

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I bought the E3200 in order to replace my "old" and "outdated" networking equipment, which happens to consist of a Linksys WAP54g access point, connected to a Netgear RT311 router. That old setup has worked reliably for years, and with decent speed. However, I have noticed my wireless connections dropping off every now and then, to the tune of a few times a week, and thought that it might be time to get new N-based equipment.
The E3200 arrived last night, so I installed it right away. Installation was actually a breeze! But, that is the ONLY reason I even gave this unit more than the minimum of one star. I was able to get this router up and running, and connected to my cable modem, in no time. And then, connecting all of our wireless devices to it was pretty quick too. Thus ends the good part of this review...
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My intent here is not to slam the Linksys product really. I have been using a Linksys wireless-g access point for years, and I love it! However, I want to (a) warn other of my experience, and (b) see if anybody has any ideas as to how this can be fixed, perhaps. Maybe the out-of-the-box configuration always behave this way, and it just needs some tweaking??? I hope so, but I doubt it. And if this is not merely a matter of a little tweaking, I intend to return this router, and reconnect my old, faithful equipment.
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I am sitting within a few inches of this lousy router with my laptop, trying to tweak its settings via the web interface. The wireless connection is still really slow, and keeps timing out. I could probably plug in to the GB port, but the purpose of this exercise was to see if the connection problems were due to distance and walls. Apparently, they were not. Sigh...

Although I am not the aforementioned Scott, my experience with the E3200 has been very similar. What lead me to do something about it and find this thread was the constant wireless dropping. Working from home and having the connection come and go multiple times a day will motivate a person.
This started happening after having the E3200 for 4 months. I did the firmware upgrade, but not the reset/reconfigure, and things cleared up for another 3 months. Then shortly after having the new Dish Network Hopper/Joey system installed, the problem came back. Not sure if it had anything to do with it but that was the only thing that changed in my environment.
The Hopper/Joey is Ethernet wired to the E3200 via a MoCA bridge and does add additional network traffic. Also there is a ZigBee wireless remote which may or may not be causing additional interference.
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Slow connection & wireless question...

I am having a problem with slow speed of surfing on DSL. I'm not sure if I have the cables connected correctly because I recently moved and it was all box up.
Also, do I need a separate router (Netgear) to get wireless for other computers in the home?
Thanks, Cari

Issue part a
calyma wrote:
I am having a problem with slow speed of surfing on DSL. I'm not sure if I have the cables connected correctly because I recently moved and it was all box up.
Step one: Visit http://www.giganews.com/line_info.html and post up the Traceroute the page shows, if you wish. Be aware that your non-bogan public IP Address will show up. It might shown up as the final hop (bottom-most line of the trace) might contain a hop with your IP address in it. Either remove that line or show only the first two octets. What I'm looking for is a line that mentions "ERX" in it's name towards the end. If for some reason the trace does not complete (two lines full of Stars), keep the trace route intact.
For example this what I see
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    1 gw1-g-vlan201.dca.giganews.com (216.196.98.4) 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms
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    5 P3-0-0.PHIL-DSL-RTR11.verizon-gni.net (130.81.13.170) 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms
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Step two: Can you provide the Transceiver Statistics from your modem?
#3 If you don't know how to get that info:
a) What is the brand and model of your modem?
b) If you have a RJ-45 WAN port router connected to it: What is the brand and model of the RJ-45 WAN port router?
#4 If you have a RJ-45 WAN port router connected to the modem, even if you know how to get the Transceiver Statistics from the modem: What is the brand and model of the RJ-45 WAN port router?
Issue part b
calyma wrote:
Also, do I need a separate router (Netgear) to get wireless for other computers in the home?
Can not answer yet, because: You did not post what equipment you have as your modem and if you have a separate router, which one.
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Hi.
I have the black home hub and the white modem... So it's not the latest equipmet. I have to restart the router a couple of times a day due to the following problems......
Slow connection to the Internet and unable to play video etc.
Also I'm unable to locate my Apple TV for AirPlay as well as locate my chromecast.
I've not done any real testing apart check the wifi channels in this area and the channel I use seems the be the best option.
I'm assuming there is a problem with the BT hub, as when I reset it my iPads find the Apple TV when the BT hub has been restarted. My chromecast then also works a bit better and general web browsing may work a little better for a while.
It looks like my BT Hub is slowing my LAN down as connection is not being made to the Chromecase or the Apple TV is not found.
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Hi Ian_watson
Thanks for posting, that does sound like a wireless problem as restarting the hub refreshes the wireless channel but this is not recommended as the restarts may cause DLM to think there is a fault on your connection and slow it down.
Have you tried manually changing the channel and switching off smart set up in the hub manager to see if this helps?
Alternatively if you need to refresh the wireless channel try these steps instead of restarting the hub.
Enter http://bthomehub.home in your web browser
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Click on Settings and enter your password if required.
Click on Wireless.
In the Wireless Channel section click on Refresh.
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Just wanted to clarify what you meant in this post. If you entered the router's IP address as the static IP for the laptop, you would get the symptoms that you are describing. Try entering a IP that isn't normally used like 192.168.1.142. (That is assuming that your router IP is the default 192.168.1.1.)
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My daughter received a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas to help with her school work and I have been working to get it setup. I have nearly everything working fine including a network connection for internet through my network router, but I am having difficulty with connecting the laptop to my network printer. I have a Belkin F7D3302 v1 wireless router that serves as my network router and this Belkin router is connected via an ethernet cable to my desktop and the router is also connected wirelessly to my Alienware laptop (both run Windows 7) - I have full connectivity with both of these computers and no printing issues - I also have an older Sont Vaio laptop that runs Windows XP SP3 - it is also connected wirelessly to the network and I can print from this computer without any problem. I went into my daughter's computer to install the printer and although it found the printer the TEST PAGE would not print and the computer shows the printer as being offline. I did do a look at the Network Config on the printer and it shows the IP address as all zeros which I found odd, but my Alienware and Sony are conected so I should be able to get my daughters laptop to connect. Any help would be appreciated to get my daughters laptop connected to the printer

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