SBC DSL Linksys Troubles... Please Help

Hello, I have SBC DSL that is run through a Linksys wireless G router, my home has 2 laptops and 2 desktops. One desktop is wired right to the router and the 2 laptops and the other desktop are all wireless. The 2 laptops work just fine but the wireless desktop always has horribly slow connections, the bandwidth often times just turning off (I have a network monitor widget on my desktop), it seems to work fine in P2P like Azureus, but if I try to surf the web often times the page will stop loading halfway through and just idle at 0 bandwidth and after a dozen refreshes it might try to load during a pocket of connection at which point it will load... maybe. Why is it that I can download files ok, and all the other computers in the house work fine but my desktop (the one I use for gaming... including WoW) sucks? I have a Linksys Wireless card that I installed in my desktop. Any suggestions on how to fix this issue? Any ideas on what might be wrong?

Thank you

p.s. I'm not sure if it is a signal strength thing because the laptops both work if I use them sitting in my chair right in front of the desktop and the desktop shows good to excellent signal strength most of the time.

 

It is most likely a problem wit your desktop's wireless because all the other things work. Do you have all the newest drivers for it?

 

that's what I thought too... but the version is up to date.

I have tried several things now

1. I updated the drivers to what I thought might be a newer version (though also probably a newer version for a newer product I don't have)
- Couldn't even connect to the internet (kept trying but couldn't get an IP address though the install worked)
2. I uninstalled the drivers, unplugged and reinstalled the physical PCI card and fully reinstalled it.
- It connects now but the connection though signal strength is strong and registers at 54mb/s it still is getting little to no through put (can't even get AIM to connect, only yahoo and my weather widget are running)

I really don't know what to do, it is really making my life difficult, I have good internet on computers too slow to run decent games, and no internet on the only computer fast enough to run any games. I am spending the summer with my parents and thus can't just move the entire modem/router setup into my room and wire it directly to my computer so that is out, all I can do is keep trying to fix this wireless... fiasco.

 

Does shutting down the P2P software help?

You may have virus that is sucking all of the bandwidth up.

 

No I turn off the P2P, I just turn it on to check make sure. So that's not the issue, I'll try a thourough virus scan and such but I don't think that's it (I'm gonna try it just in case). Could it be a setting that is messed up or something? It's a

Linksys Wireless PCI Card, V.4.0

Thanks

Oh p.s. I have the channel on 11 (not one of the more common like 6)

 

What is the mtu setting on your port?

Use cablenut or TCPOptimizer to view settings. MTU should be 1492 for DSL.

Cablenut has worked better for me, just download the optional service pack. Then select which best matches your service.