Wireless Router Dropping download speeds

I have a WRT310N router. Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, my wireless download speeds decrease the further I get away from the machine. While my signal indicator is full strength, my speed drops from 16mbps download to just around 1-2mbps. I've upgraded to the latest firmware, turned off any potentially conflicting wireless devices (baby monitor, Wii, etc) and nothing seems to effect. Interestingly, my upload speeds remain uneffected.
Any ideas?

Did you reset the router after upgrading the router's firmware..If not then,reset the router and reconfigure it from the scratch.

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The 25mbps download speed, is it the actual speed that you are getting wired directly to the modem using the online test? If not, then you need to clear it out from your internet provider.
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WRT110 drops download speed if I use ESET NOD32 Antivirus

My PC: Pentium4, Windows XP SP3 Home Edition.
D-Link dsl modem, Linksys router WRT110
DSL download speed 15 Megabits/sec.
WLAN turned off.
One PC connected to the router.
Without the router and with NOD32 Antivirus installed on my PC:
Download speed is 15 Megabits/sec.
With the router and with NOD32 installed on my PC:
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If I uninstall NOD32, everything is OK,
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Message Edited by solo11 on 01-08-2010 03:24 PM
Solved!
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I have been sent form here
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=262449
to this forum,
so I copy here what I have written there.
My PC: Pentium4, Windows XP SP3 Home Edition.
D-Link dsl modem, Linksys router WRT110
DSL download speed 15 Megabits/sec.
WLAN turned off.
One PC connected to the router.
Without the router and with NOD32 Antivirus installed on my PC:
Download speed is 15 Megabits/sec.
With the router and with NOD32 installed on my PC:
Download speed drops down to 2 Megabits/sec.
If I uninstall NOD32, everything is OK,
the download speed is 15 Megabits/sec again
(with or without the router).
What should I do?
I connected only one PC to the router with an ethernet cable
and turned off the wireless connection during the tests.
The tests were performed several times. But I got the same results.
***xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*** means that I didn't use the thing
[NOD32 uninstalled]
(Internet) --- D-Link DSL-360R ADSL2+ modem --- ***xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*** ---
--- ethernet cable --- Pentium4 PC --- Windows XP Home Edition SP3 ---
--- ***xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*** --- Firefox (or IE8) --- DOWNLOAD SPEED - look at these pictures:
http://www.abload.de/img/no_nod32_installed__div0hc.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/no_nod32_installed__di743o.jpg
(Internet) --- D-Link DSL-360R ADSL2+ modem --- ***Linksys WRT110 Router*** ---
--- ethernet cable --- Pentium4 PC --- Windows XP Home Edition SP3 ---
--- ***xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*** --- Firefox (or IE8) --- DOWNLOAD SPEED - look at these pictures:
http://www.abload.de/img/no_nod32_installed__cow0db.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/no_nod32_installed__coh2rj.jpg
[NOD32 INSTALLED]
(Internet) --- D-Link DSL-360R ADSL2+ modem --- ***xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*** ---
--- ethernet cable --- Pentium4 PC --- Windows XP Home Edition SP3 ---
--- ***NOD32 Antivirus*** --- Firefox (or IE8) --- DOWNLOAD SPEED - look at these pictures:
http://www.abload.de/img/with_nod32_installed__e45h.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/with_nod32_installed__w0gi.jpg - strange speedtest.net results, always
(Internet) --- D-Link DSL-360R ADSL2+ modem --- ***Linksys WRT110 Router*** ---
--- ethernet cable --- Pentium4 PC --- Windows XP Home Edition SP3 ---
--- ***NOD32 Antivirus*** --- Firefox (or IE8) --- DOWNLOAD SPEED - look at these pictures:
http://www.abload.de/img/with_nod32_installed__d1i4.jpg - drastic download speed slow down
http://www.abload.de/img/with_nod32_installed__g0ds.jpg - drastic download speed slow down
Upload speed is OK in all the four cases.
I've tested my uTorrent application.
It works well. Its download speed is 1.4 MB/s = 11.2 Megabits/sec
Something between my browsers (FF3.5.7 or IE8) and NOD32
or something with the router?
JDownloader application
If I watch it in full view
download speed drops to
600 KB/s = 4.8 Megabits/sec
If I put down JDownloader to the system tray
download speed jumps to
1.8 MB/s = 14.4 Megabits/sec
If I use my other PC with Core2Duo CPU and with Windows 7,
everything works well. Download speed is 15 Megabits/sec.
Message Edited by solo11 on 01-09-2010 10:12 AM

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Thanks for replying. We tried your idea, and although it helped a bit, it didn't solve our problem. Now the router downloads between 550 - 600 kilobites per second. I tested it again with the blue cable attached between the router & computer, and we still get a download speed of 1200 kilobites per second.
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I assumed it was a Comcast issue and contacted their support several times. They sent a technician over who had the line reset and that seemed to fix the problems, but a couple of days later it was back. Contacting support again, they had me test the speeds connected directly to the modem (Motorola Surfboard SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0). Connected directly to the modem via Ethernet, I reliably get 50mbps+ download speeds, but using my 4th Gen Time Capsule as a wifi router slows the speeds down to under 1mbps.
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ie this stuff.
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Please wait, collecting information and statistics
Done Generating System Profile
Network data collected to "/Users/SAR/Desktop/mobility-info-10.12.2012.112816.tar.gz"

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Really unsure about tech stuff but on 24/09/2014 had major issues with my wireless speed dropping hugely. The night before was able to stream TV, play games and many other activitives at the same time. The following morning found that every device I own on the property had close to 0 connection speeds though signal strength was good. Did the BT wholesale speed check found my wireless download speed was less then 1 on other occasions less than 0.1. When the ethernet was connected to the router speeds were over 37mbps so its clearly my wireless. Did the inssider check and my link score is 71, Im on channel 6 atm. Not sure if anyone has had similar issues and resolved them, BT told me the fault was on my property but seems a bit flippant as the change was so dramatic and occurred overnight. Any help would be grateful.,

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