Soldato
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Hi, at home we have a wireless network.
All the other pc's in the house get 4 or 5 bars (out of 5) and run well.
The one in my room is either lightning quick, or almost stops for 3 secs to think about it and then loads the web page lightning quick, or it is as slow as dial up.
When it is going quick it is brilliant but then it suddenly goes to a crawl and it is frustrating. I get between 2 and 4 bars of signal.
We have an 8mb line and I either play BF2 with 40 ping, or with 500.
I have the pc as in my sig and a pci wireless network card from Netgear and it was bought as my previous USB dongle was not vista compatible.
As part of the design of the house my room has a big steel beam over the top but my laptop works in my room fine (with 5 bars).
Any ideas on what I could do? I am thinking of moving the router from parents room to upstairs hallway but this will be a PITA as it means getting current cable up from udner carpets and hiding the new cable under carpets.
I have IPv6 disabled but does this affect anything? (disabled it as it slowed torrent speed).
thanks
EDIT: I have checked all other pc's are off so they cannot be downloading or on iplayer etc etc and I don't have Vista updates turned on.
All the other pc's in the house get 4 or 5 bars (out of 5) and run well.
The one in my room is either lightning quick, or almost stops for 3 secs to think about it and then loads the web page lightning quick, or it is as slow as dial up.
When it is going quick it is brilliant but then it suddenly goes to a crawl and it is frustrating. I get between 2 and 4 bars of signal.
We have an 8mb line and I either play BF2 with 40 ping, or with 500.
I have the pc as in my sig and a pci wireless network card from Netgear and it was bought as my previous USB dongle was not vista compatible.
As part of the design of the house my room has a big steel beam over the top but my laptop works in my room fine (with 5 bars).
Any ideas on what I could do? I am thinking of moving the router from parents room to upstairs hallway but this will be a PITA as it means getting current cable up from udner carpets and hiding the new cable under carpets.
I have IPv6 disabled but does this affect anything? (disabled it as it slowed torrent speed).
thanks
EDIT: I have checked all other pc's are off so they cannot be downloading or on iplayer etc etc and I don't have Vista updates turned on.
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