How can I speed up my wireless internet speed?

sastusbulbas

sastusbulbas

sastusbulbas

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Hi all,

I have an Asus WL-500gp wireless router downstairs.

Upstairs is my old XP machine, which has an Asus WL-138G wireless PCI card.

I have my wireless security settings as WPA.

I find my internet connection to be pathetically slow, but what can I do to speed it up?

Would using WEP improve matters?

Cheers,
Steve
 
The pci wireless card (54Mbps) is 802.11g, the router (54Mbps) manual states an 802.11b/g card is required.

i have my downstairs computer connected with cabe to the Asus router, it works fine, internet is a lot faster, though it seems a tiny bit slower than before I started using the router?
 
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The speed is the same wether the computer is in the same room or upstairs, wired it works fine.

The computer is fine, it does seem that via wireless my internet connection is slow, web browsing is pathetic, pages take ages to load if there are pictures, downloads are painfully slow.

If I wire it to the router things are fine.
 
I only got the router and card a few months ago, as I wanted a router I could plug an external hard drive and printer into.

So are you saying I should get a better router and better wireless card?
 
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