Wireless speed / connection / Virgin 50mb

[magicroundabout]

recently moved house and had my 50mb installed in the front living room as i wanted to go wireless in the rear living room (approx 8m away from comp).

Now i wasn't aware that the speeds from wireless/ethernet cable vary so much and am quite dissapointed tbh and wondered if i can do anything to speed these up?. Speedtest gives me a connection of 28mb and i download roughly @ 2.8mbps where as before over ethernet it was 6mbps +.

Something i have noticed too is my modem shows my downstream/upstream power as:

the engineer said this needs to be as close to zero as possible and the upstream over 40 so that you achieve a good signal/speed. So is this affecting my connection/speeds?.

I have the Dlink-615 + DWA-140 router and adaptor and recieve roughly 55% > 67% signal.

i'm tempted to phone up virgin and get the engineer to instal it in my back living room so to connect through ethernet.

 

[Jayster]

Imo your problem is your wireless i would not expect 55% signal at 8m. Maybe the wireless channel you are using is congested or something, To me your power levels are fine my downstream levels are higher and ive got a perfect connection. Try connecting via etherne and see if thats the problem?

 

[magicroundabout]

Other routers around me are on channels 6 & 1 so I've put myself on 11.

As you say 8m is nothing and should be hitting nearlly 100%.

I'd like to stay wireless due to less things being drilled through walls etc.

Not sure what to try to boost my signal