Today i bought a Western Digital My Book and i find it extremely slow to move files onto it (havent tried taking them off yet, although itll probably be slow too) its going at just over 2mb/s which is appalling. So i was wondering what i could do to get my home connection running faster?
I've got a N type belkin router, and im in the same room as it, so that should be fine.
Perhaps the ethernet cables connecting the hard drive to my wireless router is a slow one? Would that make any difference?
IMO, wireless is only of any use for browsing the net or checking emails.
If you're moving files then just get a cable plugged in, it'll be a lot faster, and you'll be a lot happier.
Currently im in the same room, sometimes i may go downstairs.
I normally have my laptop on my desk with my all my computer hardware plugged into it and a ethernet cable in my laptop. But if i decide i want to move somewhere else in the house, then moving files at 2mb/s is just stupid.
True, not to mention the stability part. If you plan moving big amounts of traffic or whatever, you'll end up throwing the wireless out the window and then spit on it. It's basically, or to say it very VERY NICE - not anything near as stable as with cables. You get lower speeds, every now and then you'll most likely get interferances and get's a fast DC, witch can screw your transfers up really bad, and not to mention the latency.
Trust me on this, I am sure that 9/10 questions as custommer support regarding internet could be avoided if people started to understand that cable > wireless.
It's so...frustrating, the whole wireless stuff. My brother have allways used wireless, but when the neightbour buyed a new fancy baby caller the whole wireless signal got screwed up. The only thing he could do was to either get a cable or use silly amounts on heavy shit wireless, that after all proved itself to suck almost as much as the other.
My friend, use cables, even a 100M long network cable beats wireless. Some M's away and you get screwed over, get some wireles things in your home and your screwed, even a freaking micro wave seems to be enough sometimes O_o!
Can't understand why it'd be slow. Maybe you just have a duff router, or there's a cause of interference close by. Microwave is what normally gets me.
I use my Netgear WPN111 and some random Netgear router and it's lovely, stable and way way faster than what my actual connection allows. No disconnections and I can use it for online gaming and large file transfers without issue.
Check that your is in router mode and not bridged/dhcp disabled or that your modem is connected to the WAN port.
You could also check if you can choose a less crowded channel, dunno does D-link have such option. Tomato firmware in my WRT54GL has a wireless site survey option where you can see what channel nearby WLANs use and then choose a unused channel.
Oh.. if it's big files it will be slow.. if I move ~700 megs between my laptop and desktop PC it takes about 7 minutes if recall correctly. Nothing here though is draft-N.
ed: 0 replies when I started writing my reply.. slow? noo......
Then your lucky, because 95% of the rest will not gain anything by using wireless. People, who thinks everything gets easier by using wireless, come join me for a day in my work, you'll understand what I talk about when you see/hear it.
Btw, channel 6 seems most ok on routers, why I don't know but for most cases the standard is 6 and works best that way.
My wireless network has worked perfectly for all the years I used it. The only reason I ended up going to cable was when I went to Vista64 and it messed things up.
And I eventually found a fix for that, the only reason I'm still cable is down to all the time I spent putting the cable in.
But be carefull not to chose 12 or 13.. or well at least check that there are no conflicts that your network card for example is in american standards while the router is european standard. European (how the fawk is that spelled?) standard is up to 13 channels, while americans only use 11, this can cause you not to find the network at all.
One extra reason for not using it.
Cable = Plug and play, joy.
Wireless = Anger management test, usually fails
I dont understand why alot of you are saying that wireless never works and you can never hold a connection with it, ive had wireless for a long time, and its always worked fine.
I used to be cabled for my computer, and wireless for my laptop. And the wireless never failed.
But now the computer is broken im now more on wireless.
And for some reason i never get speeds that much faster when using cable then when using wireless :/
But im gonna try ethernet now anyways.
Want me to bring home a statestic to prove that wireless is unstable in most cases from work? Trust me, it is.
If not, your lucky.
Try living in a block, or a appartment with a lot of neightbours, using wireless there can, and usually is a nightmare. Wireless is too censetive to interferance, and if you would try to play you would end up with nice latencies usually above 200. If your not got a l33t network and no interferance around.
Edit ; Oh and yeah, did I forgot to mention that you will die by cancer S14, you would be surprised how much it can fuxor your body (some irony and some truth in that).
Assuming you mean 2 megaBYTE per second, that's about what you can expect in practice on a 802.11g adapter. You can forget about achieving the theoretical throughput, that's for sure. If you need more, wired is the way to go.
It's up for people to chose what they want. Wireless is good when it's working, and if you only use it to surf around on the internet browsing sites it's overall a ok utility.
But for most people living close to other people, or with uses that is not just about browsing around, I would at all times strongely advice wired cables. Hide them in the wall or make other nifty solutions, in my opinion that is allways better than the wireless too.
That's all fine and dandy if you're sitting in one place, but I'm usually not. Why would I use anything but wireless for a portable internet surfer? Latency and bandwidth is completely irrelevant for such a machine as long as it's good enough, which it is.
Well, if you souly use it for browsing, then sure - go ahead. But for people that are not so much "into" the world of computer and internet, if you get problems with wireless you are fuxored the big way. And often it's really retarded reasons that make the wireless network not working or respondig as it should So a big reason is also the part about if you encounter problems, wired has a less area of things there can be a error with, while wireless has tons of it.
Not to mention, outdated Vista version + wireless = hell.
If i had 2meg actual speed i would be over the moon! With my 3g connection i get a max of 600kb very rarely. I usually run at about 350kb. Now thats slow!
From what i know, it isnt the speed of the connection, its the stability that is the problem with wireless depending what you are trying to do. With 3g wireless, its worse. I cannot hold a very stable connection at all.
The only thing i did that helped a little bit with stability is moving the dongle, or in most cases, router, near the window. I used a 5 metre usb extension cable with an active repeater, which i gather boosts the signal so it isnt lost. It is a bit more stable than before but still not miraculous.
Mine has never actually dicsonnected by itself, it usually just drops to such a slow speed that it can take literally 10 minutes to load up the main page of the forum!
If i try something like youtube, or any forums with advertising etc, then forget it. It just 404s on me and i end up disconnecting it myself out of pure frustration, unplugging everything and leaving it for 10 minutes or so, reconnect it and its usually ok again for a few days.
For me, racing online in LFS is a nightmare as well, it really is a total lottery tbh. I raced one night in a sever with 16 of us and everything was fine. The next night i was on the same server, with only 9 or 10 people, but the same people as the night before and it was total hell.
I ended up spectating for most of the meet as i couldnt even line up properly, let alone try and race.
We all lined up in rows of 2 cars wide and i was 3rd row back. We all were in position, lovely. All of a sudden my car began spinning around bumping into people and barriers and nobody else, or me had moved. It really was a lagtastic evening.