The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Netgear Wireless router problems.

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by madroxinide, Dec 27, 2006.

  1. madroxinide

    madroxinide Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    33
    Messages:
    744
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Im at a friends house and he has a WGr614 netgear 54 mbps wireless router. He has cable internet, his desktop computer is hooked into the router and gets about 30 kbps download speed for songs. Whenever I connect, through ethernet cable or wireless connection i can only seem to get about 2 kbps download speed total. Any suggestions? It seems as if his desktop is stealing all the bandwidth, is there any way to fix this? Thanks.
     
    madroxinide, Dec 27, 2006
    #1
  2. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,020
    Messages:
    3,439
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    All of those speeds are low for cable service. I only see those slow speed when P2P, BT software is hogging all the bandwidth or infested with Adware, Spyware or virus. Wireless speeds for 54g should max out around 35mbps. Ftp transfers for a single connection around 4MB/s, but I have seen as low as 1.5.

    Make sure your connection for your nic's are full duplex and not 1/2.

    I have seen Norton AV / suite kill a pc. Particurely if it expired before it was uninstalled or renewed. I DO NOT recommend Symantic Products due to the resources required to run them. If you have a Quad core where you can assign it to 1 cpu it's usable.
     
    blue68f100, Dec 28, 2006
    #2