Wireless Help Please.

[Pulse]

Right this is the situation. I've recently bought a new router to cater for our household wireless needs and the signal is perfect and it's an amazing bit of kit. Belkin F6D6230UK4 in case anyone was curious.

The problem that I have is that in my main computer I have an Edimax 7727in wireless N card, which is advertised as being 300mb. Now I find it a little strange that I can't get it to connect at full speed. Whilst on the other hand, my laptop which I didn't even know was wireless N capable until about 3hours ago has found the 5GHz wireless output and connected straight away at the full 300mbps. However if I do switch to the normal 2.4GHz waveband then the wireless tops out at 150mbps, same as my main computer.

The part I finding hard to understand is that it seems that a wireless card has to be N capable AND capable of transmitting on the 5GHz waveband to take full advantage of the 300mbps, but I don't believe my Edimax card is 5GHz capable or advertised as being so, so how can it be 300mbps capable, if that makes sense?

Also it seems that on my laptop there are a lot more options for the wireless adapter to do with N signal and 5GHz wavebands where as my main computer's doesn't.

Anyone able to explain what's going on here?

 

[BoroRob_UK]

There is wireless N which is 150mbps and wireless N1 which is 300mbps.

Have you tried setting in your router and all your wireless cards and stuff to what speeds you want them to run at? They might just be using a default speed. Set everything to run at the 5Ghz

 

[Pulse]

That's the thing, the router is dual band so it outputs at 5GHz and standard 2.4GHz constantly because my laptop can see them both and connect using either of them, but after much research last night I think I've found the problem. My wireless N card is 1T2R, I think that stands for 1 transmit and 2 receive as it has 2 aerials. And after installing the Edimax utility last night and looking into it, it was showing that it was receiving at 270mbps but only transmitting at 135, which fits.

Now I just find it funny that a 3 year old laptop has got better wireless than the wireless cards that I bought just after Christmas this year. Figures.