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Single PC on Home LAN seems to be throttled? WHY?

  • 17-08-2012 11:48pm
    #1
    Mad_Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭


    Hi. I posted here and not under broadband etc as I think this issue is pc related
    I have UPC 100M connection
    My main pc is in a room beside the router and using wireless N I get about 45M which I am more than happy with

    The problem is, right beside the router (18" away) is another PC and this machine is connected directly to the router using LAN cable. Various speedtests over the last year or so have yielded download speeds of approx 20M!! I put it down to it being a faulty NIC and just learned to live with it.

    Anyway, this week I got a wifi adapter and installed it on this pc beside the router. I ran a few speedtests and the best result is about 15M!!! At this stage there must obviously be an issue with the machine as it's only 18" away from the router, and the PC in the next room gets about 3 times this speed using a wireless adapter also!

    Any quick suggestions?

    The machine is quite old, running XP Pro and a 3 GHz P4 Processor with about a gig or two of ram. Not high spec by an means, but my main PC that gets the 45M is not a whole lot better. Its 3.2Ghz with 2.5GB Ram.


Comments

  • #2
    Torqay
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  • #3
    ScumLord
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    Older Pcs could only have 10mb network adapters.

    Wireless N isn't a universal standard as far as I know, last I heard it was a type of wireless that belonged to one particular company, buffalo. Other manufactures have their own standard for high speed wireless.

    It could be just a restriction on the old hardware. If your using old PCI maybe that doesn't have the bandwidth for high speed wireless?? Although I would have thought it would.

    You should be able to find out what windows thinks is the maximum bandwidth of the connection in the network connections settings (been a while since I used XP) it could just be a driver issue not necessarily related to the driver for your network adapter.


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