Wireless at Home

My phone seems to run really slow at home on my network but our computers run fine on it. My wife also said her ipod touch is the same way. Any other place it runs fine.. Any ideas?

What is it that you are comparing? The 'Touch had only 'G' wireless connectivity until the new model of last month (September 2010) which has 'N'
The iPhone was upgraded to 'N' with iPhone 4 released in June this year. Previous models had 'G' wireless.
If you are comparing the wireless speed of these older iPhone and iPod Touch hardware with a recent computer with 'N' then you may well see a difference in the speed of data transfer, such as a webpage.
Message was edited by: David McKinlay

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