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    Help! My Dell E1505 Has The Slowest Connection On My Router

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DPR, Nov 2, 2006.

  1. DPR

    DPR Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am using a wireless connect which is at 54.0 Mbps and the signal is excellent. The fastest download speed I am getting is about 150 kb/s which is pretty rare. All the other computers get over 400 on good servers. What can I do?
     
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    Did you try updating the cards drivers or routers firmware?
     
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  3. DPR

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    no how would i do that?
     
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    I have no clue how to do any of that.
     
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    You might try going to the company's home page your router was made by, under support. I have a Linksys and they have good tech support.
     
    goose, Nov 2, 2006
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    Which wifi card? Dells come w/ either a Dell branded one or the Intel one. You also have to tell us what router you have.
    Some wifi chips use a "special" (aka, nonstandard mode they can charge you extra for) mode that boosts speed by hogging wifi bandwidth, etc. so you have to stay w/ the same equipment for "full boosted" speed...
    I'd assume that you bought your wifi router and desktop wifi adapters at the same time so they're all the same brand...
     
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    also update your wireless card drivers
     
    gridtalker, Nov 2, 2006
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    If you know the Internet speed from your ISP...use TCP Optimizer on the machine...That was one of the first things I did when I got my E1505 with Dell Pre N card...First page...set to the speed (4/5/6/ mbps whatever) and the program makes recommendations to open the receive buffers to the max for the speed. Made a BIG differrence in my speed. Ive actually run it on all my machines...will give about a 10-15% overhead beyone ISP top speed. Example...right now I have 6 mbps cable service...and I can get speeds as high as 6500

    Bob

    http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
     
    Bobmitch, Nov 3, 2006
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