VirginMedia 50meg/Wireless-N/Vista - SLOW downloads

[ArmyofHarmony]

Hi

I just got upgraded to Virgin 50 Meg. I was hoping the addition of a wireless-N router would cure my problem of being on the top floor of a 3 storey house (router is on the bottom floor and I already have a wireless-N adapter).

Unfortunately I can't seem to get a connection of over 10mbit. Even though I have a weak connection of 3/5 bars on Vista, it's still connected at over 200mbit, so I would have thought I'd be able to receive near enough to full speed?

BTW, when plugging via ethernet we get the full 50mbit connection.

I've heard a there are a lot of issues with vista and wireless so I'm open to thinking I need to tweak SOMETHING in order to unlock some more speed. But at the end of the day, I got the same speed with the wireless-g router we used to have with Virgin, so I'm really quite annoyed.

Anyone had any experiences with this?

 

[ArmyofHarmony]

I think the problem here is the range and that the wireless throughput just isn't high enough, despite you having Wireless-N connectivity of 200Mbps.

To be honest, when I do my network throughput calculations I often state a maximum throughput value of just 25-30% (and thats at OPTIMUM speed) of any connected speed.

This, in theory, would give a throughput over your wireless around 50-60Mbps, but with network dropouts and interference this can drop much lower STILL and begin to impact your download speeds.

As suggested, Powerline networking might be the solution for you, but ensure you get the higher rated 200Mbps adaptors instead of the standard 85Mbps ones.

Your other option is try a Wireless-N range extender placed on the first or second floor of your home. Also ensure you are using equipment from the same manufacturer. Wireless-N Draft 2.0 is the spec at the moment, but all the companies have there own slight variation on implemnentation and I'm willing to get best connectivity your going to need similar equipment.

Hi

I've tried Powerline adapters before, 85meg ones when I had a 20 mbit connection... I was getting no faster than 6mbit connectivity with them so had to return them! I assumed the wiring in our house is awful.

I'm using a belkin adapter with a netgear router, however I've tried using the supplied netgear adapter and that acutally peforms worse than my belkin.

I mihgt look in to getting a range extender and see if that works better