(yet another) wireless problem

danyjr

danyjr

danyjr

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Hey guys,

Virgin broadband setup:

Virgin cable modem is connected to a WGR614 Wireless Broadband Router via the ethernet link.

My PC located in the room nearby has installed a Netgear WN311B Wireless PCI Adapter on my desktop (using Windows XP SP3).

Well the problem is weird. I can connect to the internet and receive a decent (Excellent/Very Good) signal, however the problem is when I start the PC and start using internet, everything is very smooth, however after a while it starts giving me 'unable to load the page' and I have to reload a few times to be able to load the page. Weird thing is, I can play online games without any lag and when I am downloading files the speed is decent and never drops.

I am very confused here, if there is a hardware problem, why can I play games and download effortlessly but loading simple pages or a Youtube video on IE or Firefox is such a tedious task?! Please enlighten these humble servant.

Thanks in advance. :)

PS: I changed to Windows 7 64-bit RC and it worked fine for about a week and then the same problem as with XP all over again (maybe because of a Windows 7 update?).
 
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Are you playing games and downloading? Your bandwidth on the wireless may be as low as 11 meg so if you are doing both it may not cope with it. It could be noise which mean packet have to be recent or it could be next door on the same wifi channel.
Download netstumbler from here its free and will show whoes on what channel so you can see if anyones on yours if so change it. It also shows noise it could be a tv, phone, microwave or similar giving out noise
 
Hmm..maybe I didn't make it clear.

I can play online games and/or download stuff without any problem but I seem to be having problems loading a single youtube video (an error occurred, please try again later) or even a single page (Server not found: Firefox can't find the server at www.overclockers.co.uk), or connecting to MSN Messenger (can't connect).

Weird isn't it?
 
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