how do i speed up my wireless linksys router?
December 8th, 2009 | 
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i just bought a linksys wrt160n and the range and signal strength is excellent at 54mbs. i have a desktop wired through it and a laptop wireless. the problem i am having is the wireless internet speeds. i tested it using speakeasy speed test and my wired desktop gets 9.5mb speeds but my wireless is lucky to get 5mb. is there settings i can change to fix the wireless? thanks in advance
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Tags: internet speeds, signal strength, speed test, thanks in advance, wireless internet
You can get directional signal boosters can even make one yourself. But the transfer rate is going to always be less on wireless than wired.
Try searching Google for "wi-fi signal booster"
Look at what you just wrote. Your wireless LAN runs at 54 Mbps; your broadband at desktop gets 9.5 Mbps or about 1/5 of the wireless LAN speed. If you are getting 54 Mbps on the wireless LAN, a 9.5 Mbps internet connection cannot be slowed down due to the wireless component.
What I find interesting, again from your writing is the desktop gets approx 10 Mbps; the wireless gets approx 5 Mbps or half of the dekstop speed. Now the Internet speed is divided roughly equally among all active users. If you conducted the desktop speed with the wireless not actively using Internet and then conducted wireless speed with wired desktop actively using Internet you are seeing the Internet shared roughly equally between the 2 pcs. Rerun the wireless speed test with desktop shut down.
If the desktop is shut down, make sure hackers have not broken in and are hogging bandwidth – by invoking WPA or WPA2 security and MAC address validation.
If you were seeing wireless packet loss the 54 Mbps speed of the wireless LAN would be a lot smaller.