so i got a belkin n1 router, why isnt it any faster?

so my notebook has intel 4965AGN network card, and i bought a belkin n1 wireless router, hooked it up, and nothing seems better or faster than my old linksys "g" router. Is this normal or is there some settings i should change on the router?

btw, my belkin n1 settings are on default except security settings, which is on wpa, tkip.

 

What speed are you testing? Internet? Or local network?

If you're trying to measure your internet speed, 802.11a/g are 54Mbps and b is 11Mbps. Unless your internet connection is faster than that, you won't really see that much of a difference. But your local network should see greater performance.

 

probably, your router can only go as fast as your actual internet connection speed, so if your internet is slower than your router, then no matter how fast your router is, it wont make a difference because your connection speed was low. if G was already peaking your kb/s then having N wont make a difference.
youre only as fast as your slowest parts

 

You need to use WPA/WPA2 AES and not TKIP.

 

You're internet speed isn't going to get any better. 802.11n's biggest advantage is the sheer speed of in-home networks.

 

greg is right. the n-speed is misleading. they don't tell you thay you won't see a significant increase in internet speed. jerks.

 

Right...just like everyone else said: you're limited by the actual bandwidth you get from your ISP. No matter how fast your router is, be it 54, 108, or 300 (or whatever N is) you still get your internet thru the same pipe from your ISP. So unless you actually upgrade that, you won't notice any difference browsing the web or downloading.

But if you're sharing files over your network, you will see a big difference over the g speeds.

 

Only if everyone (wired clients) connects at gige speed. If you have an older speed with only 10/100 you may not see any difference. But for fastest transfers use FTP.

 

This is the correct answer. You can't use wireless-n with TKIP. I had this same problem when setting mine up last week. When on TKIP I could only get 54Mbps. After changing to AES, it immediately changed to 130Mbps.

 

you are limited by your isp, but, you're NETWORK can go faster, but you don't giv us alo of information. I imagine your card is no compatible, or should I say doe not meet the needs of the router. To et max network speeds via wireless, at this time, you really need to use a router and card/adapter that use the same chip >> broadcom or atheros...........almost exclusively the same manufacture at this point >> dlink to dlink, etc.

 

so the routher has a wpa2+wpa option which leads to a tkip+aes option. would i suffer a performance loss by using a mixed setting intead of just one setting?

 

You should not, 11n routers have a more powerful cpu to handle every thing.

 

the best setting is generally wpa2 w/aes, best security & performance. But lots of folks play around w/ all the settings to see which works the best for them. Just stay away from wep.