Originally Posted by
BOAC
Keef - Hi. Vastly rurual and the router is probably outside 'warchalking' range
512 is 'the best' I am offered, at 4.85k from the exchange. Interesting that you too see a drop in speed on WiFi. Are you saying you can run a hard-wired AND WiFi on the same phone line at the same time or are you swapping connections per machine?
Understood.
I have an "all-in-one" wireless modem router in Essex, with three computers (current, old "Linux experiment" and very old "file backer-upper" connected via cables. The laptop connects via wireless.
Up here in Norfolk, it's three separate boxes doing the same job. Normally, the laptop connects to a docking station, hard-wired to the router. To test it, I plugged in the wireless card and unplugged the Cat5 cable.
I don't know why it would be slower via wireless (when wireless is over 50MB/s) - some day I'll play with WEP and MTU settings and see if any of that makes a difference.
If you're very rural, I'd try with WEP turned off - but as advised above, change the password on the hardware first, just in case!