Category: Geeks r Us
Well, here's the story. I have a "Ralink Wireless Lan Card (PCI)" and it is supposed to be on a 54mbps network right? Well, the fastest internal speed that i have ever got out of this baby was about 300kbps. When I know that other people such as Andre Louis get about 2.7mbps out of theirs. Is there any hardware or software alterations that I could make?
What signal strength do you get? The signal strength itself may also be good, but various objects in the path of the wireless signal may be causing slower speeds. Have you tried moving the computer somewhere else to see what happens perhaps?
TheMuso
if i were you i would get a ambicom card instead. they are very good.
muso is right, there are a number of things that can interfeer with the signal of a wireless network, things you tever thought would, like wireless doorbells, mobile phones, even brick walls, lol.
Well, the signal strength is excelant so that is not the cause of the slow speeds. And the arial itself has a cable and yes I have moved it in different locations about 3 or 4 to be precise.
then if you can, see about getting another card, or ask the manufacturer if the is usual behavior
Have you thought of trying another operating system? I know this might not be trivial, and you might need to get help, but you might want to throw in a Linux Live CD with support for your card and see how that goes.
TheMuso
Well, the thing of the thing is. The exact thing happened with my netgear wireless card. And at the moment I would like to keep my opperating system unless it has to come to it.
If you have encryption turned on, on your wireless router that will have a significant impact on the speed you are getting. You may as well turn encryption off if you have it activated as you can get software that can work out your password any way. It is a lot more secure and improves the speed no end if you set up Mac address filtering on your router instead. This way only Mac addresses that you have specified can access your network.
I am not saying to destroy your current Windows install, but to try a live CD, or something along those lines. From what you have said about your netgear card, it certainly sounds like an OS thing. Have you turned QoS off in the network card properties?