Wireless Networking Question

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I currently have the TrueMobile 2300 and an Inspiron 5100. Both of them worked perfectly fine and the speed was fast (36 Mbps), until I hooked up the Linksys wireless adapter to my PS2. Now, most of the time when I connect to the Internet via my laptop, it is trying to connect to the adapter to the PS2 rather than the TrueMobile router, and when I can finally get it to connect to the TrueMobile, it is only about 1Mbps speed and it is very slow. Anyone know how I may be able to correct this? If I remove the "linksys" part from my "available wireless networks" my game adapter will not work. So would switching channels work, or do they both need to operate on the same channel? I am really frustrated with this.....please help if you can.

Also, I don't know if this matter or not, but I do not have WEP enabled on either device, so the network is not secure, but that shouldn't make a difference right?

Any help would be appreciated.

JoeinOH · Answer

Well, I did not change channels because the wireless gaming adapter says that it has to be on the same channel as the router in order to work, so hence the reason why I haven't changed it.  (I did read the 'read before posting section' thanks though)  Secondly the 36Mbps connection speed that I am referring to is what it says I am connected at on my wireless network on the laptop.  It has always said this, and when it stays at this speed, the pages load very fast.  However, once I started having these problems the speed dropped to 1Mbps which is very slow and the pages take forever to load when I am connected wirelessly.

jmwills · Answer

Have you tired changing the channels of both the adapter and the router? And I will assure you the 36Mbps is not your download speed unless you have a T1 line. That's 36000 Kbps.

Go to DSL Reports to test your download speed:

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

Message Edited by jmwills on 01-02-2004 07:00 PM

jmwills · Answer

First of all, the 36Mbps speed you mention is the internal speed of your LAN and NOT your download speed. You are at best 3 to 5 Mbps download in the US. Changing channels could very well help your problem as mentioned in the "Read Before Posting" Articles.

And yes, encyrption does matter, not for speed, but for SECURITY.

JoeinOH · Answer

I am not saying that the 36Mbps is the download speed, but in the taskbar where it shows my wireless connection, it always said "You are connected to 'wireless' at 36 Mbps". Now since I have added this other adapter, it says 36Mbps when I initially log on, then it goes to 11 Mbps when I open my IE Browser, then it drops even further to 1Mbps. The entire time that I am on the internet, this keeps fluctuating which never used to happen before, it just stayed at 36 Mbps.

What would cause a fluctuation such as this??

Also, If I change the channel of both the adapter and the router, doesn't that mean that my laptop will not connect to the router unless I change it as well?

Message Edited by JoeinOH on 01-02-2004 06:04 PM

Message Edited by JoeinOH on 01-02-2004 06:05 PM

JoeinOH · Answer

Willis, come on man, I need your help.

jmwills · Answer

No, your laptop will find the connection. Think of changing the channel as an FM Radio, your receiver, the laptop card, cand still find the broadcaster (the SSID) as long you have the correct SSID and encryption settings.

Can't help you with the Game Adpater,. I don't see why people use these as there will always be some latency in wireless as compared to wired gaming.

JoeinOH · Answer

Thanks for the help Wills......Everything works perfect now, I switched channels, and I figured out that my gaming adapter did no have the same SSID as the router.....works now, and I am connected wirelessly at 54Mbps....things

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