What USB wifi dongle?

azazl187 · 8 Jul 2019 at 22:23

wigster said:
Thanks guys, forgot to mention the House is owned by the council so I dont have access to the router, they have even blocked adult sites. I'm sure my dongle has had it as it gets really hot.

Oh god, move house immediately or install a VPN. How do you live man!

wigster · 9 Jul 2019 at 08:24

Rroff said:
Are you using the USB extension that comes with the dongle to try and get a better position? could be a driver issue on your PC maybe.

Yes I first used the extension had it everywhere but still the same and no difference without it either, I shall load the driver that came with it and see if that makes a difference cheers.

azazl187 said:
Oh god, move house immediately or install a VPN. How do you live man!

Only been here a week but it's hard

VPN will be the way once I can get the speed issue fixed.

labcoattech · 9 Jul 2019 at 13:04

Are you plugging the WiFi dongle into a USB 2 or 3 port?

wigster · 9 Jul 2019 at 15:25

Haven't got a clue would that make a difference? When I get home I will see what ports are what cheers.

labcoattech · 9 Jul 2019 at 16:01

USB 3 can cause interference with WiFi

wigster · 9 Jul 2019 at 17:26

Didn't know that so cheers

Duke · 9 Jul 2019 at 18:07

A bit late I guess but I would have suggested a PCI-E wireless card over USB one, I've tend to found them more reliable.

Rroff · 9 Jul 2019 at 18:10

Grab a copy of inSSIDer and screenshot the screen when it is showing the strengths of detected networks so we can rule out signal quality - if that is OK then it is probably some software/driver problem.

wigster · 9 Jul 2019 at 21:35

Is this what you want?

Rroff · 9 Jul 2019 at 21:47

Yeah that is the screen - doesn't look like any signal problems -50dBm is about as good as it gets normally - so doesn't look like the problem is reception.

Is that an unsecured wireless printer? oof.

wigster · 9 Jul 2019 at 21:51

Could be the printer isn't anything to do with me, It's a strange house as the council has a room/office in this house so it could be something to do with them. I will have to try the other usb ports, Must be something to do with the computer because if I put my Android Tablet on the floor or anywhere I still get 50mbps.

wigster · 10 Jul 2019 at 08:25

Tried all USB ports and it's still the same, I do have a upload problem sometimes it's not even getting 1mbs most I get is 2mbps, I was getting near enough 10mbps last week, I'm wondering if the council have throttled back everyones upload.

EDIT: I'm now getting 47mbps on speedofme website.

EDIT: Spoke to soon

wigster · 13 Jul 2019 at 15:40

What does this suggest when I first put my pc on I get good speeds but then after 5 minutes it slows down, if I unplug the usb dongle and put it back in then I get my speed back up again, but after 5 minutes it slows down again.

wigster · 14 Jul 2019 at 18:46

pcfarrar said:
TP-Link Archer T4U is quite decent and reasonably priced.

I should have got that one the TP-Link I got isn't dual band, So thats way my speed isn't as good as my Tablet.

labcoattech · 15 Jul 2019 at 10:43

I recommended the following https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...00-bluetooth-4.2-pci-e-adapter-nw-10a-as.html currently on sale also, built in bluetooth incase you decided to get a bluetooth keyboard / mouse.

One thing I like about the ASUS range is that the antenna's can be mounted away from the PC.

wigster · 15 Jul 2019 at 14:45

Cheers I have just sorted out the return of the usb one, and I think I will go with the Asus one.

wigster · 20 Jul 2019 at 08:46

labcoattech said:
I recommended the following https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...00-bluetooth-4.2-pci-e-adapter-nw-10a-as.html currently on sale also, built in bluetooth incase you decided to get a bluetooth keyboard / mouse.

One thing I like about the ASUS range is that the antenna's can be mounted away from the PC.

Cheers have it up and working and now getting a constant download speed of 55mbs when other people are in, Just got to figure out why the upload is slower than a snail sometimes not even getting 1mbps if i'm lucky i get 2mbps.

labcoattech · 22 Jul 2019 at 09:21

Download and upload speed will depend on what the council are providing, have you asked them?

wigster · 22 Jul 2019 at 12:51

I haven't asked the council they just said it was fast, When I moved in a month ago the upload was great getting about 10mbps but now it's slow, I'm not really bothered about the upload just handy having it a bit faster to upload pictures.

labcoattech · 22 Jul 2019 at 13:11

Could be another user taking up all the bandwidth, bandwidth throttling, council may have decided to downgrade the connection, router issues.