Wendelius
19-09-2004, 21:30
I'm oh so confused.
I have a wireless USB modem connection to a wireless Access Point (router / modem / firewall). Both are 802.11G devices and, until yesterday, the reported connection speed between the modem and router varied between 24Mbps and 54Mbps. I expect that, if you check your wireless connection icon, you should find something similar.
However, today it obstinately reports the speed as being 1Mbps. I've tried restarting the machine and the router, making sure that the router is indeed set-up properly, changing the USB port the modem is plugged into, disabling and re-enabling the wireless connection, ... In short everything I can think of without any effect. The signal strength from my router varies from Good to Excellent, never below. :thinking:
Now 2 things have changed recently on my machine:
- Installation of SP XP2 last week. Things seemed to work OK after that except I had once the connection reporting a 1Mbps connection to the router but it went back to 24Mpbs+ after a restart.
- As my machine complained when I plugged in the modem that the USB port was too slow, I went and bought a 3 port 2.1 Belkin USB hub. It consists of a PCI card to plug in. The card was recognised through Plug and Play and the modem seems happy enough (no speed warning when I connect it to it). But this is apparently when today's trouble started.
Since then, I can't get it to report a higher connection speed to the router.
Now, when I download files, this reported speed doesn't seem to make a difference. But as I'm on a 1Mpbs ADSL connection, I expect that it happens that that is exactly what I need to support the full connection bandwidth.
But why oh why can't I get my modem, on any USB port on my machine (whether on the PCI card or one of the original ones) to report the old connection speed? Has the connection speed to my router really been reduced 24 to 54 times?
Does the problem lie at the USB level or has something gone strange with my router? All the settings look OK and the phenomenon is identical whether the router is set to support mixed mode connections or only 802.11g ones.
Or is this is a non-issue?
Any idea? I'm very confused. :help:
Many thanks,
Wendelius
I have a wireless USB modem connection to a wireless Access Point (router / modem / firewall). Both are 802.11G devices and, until yesterday, the reported connection speed between the modem and router varied between 24Mbps and 54Mbps. I expect that, if you check your wireless connection icon, you should find something similar.
However, today it obstinately reports the speed as being 1Mbps. I've tried restarting the machine and the router, making sure that the router is indeed set-up properly, changing the USB port the modem is plugged into, disabling and re-enabling the wireless connection, ... In short everything I can think of without any effect. The signal strength from my router varies from Good to Excellent, never below. :thinking:
Now 2 things have changed recently on my machine:
- Installation of SP XP2 last week. Things seemed to work OK after that except I had once the connection reporting a 1Mbps connection to the router but it went back to 24Mpbs+ after a restart.
- As my machine complained when I plugged in the modem that the USB port was too slow, I went and bought a 3 port 2.1 Belkin USB hub. It consists of a PCI card to plug in. The card was recognised through Plug and Play and the modem seems happy enough (no speed warning when I connect it to it). But this is apparently when today's trouble started.
Since then, I can't get it to report a higher connection speed to the router.
Now, when I download files, this reported speed doesn't seem to make a difference. But as I'm on a 1Mpbs ADSL connection, I expect that it happens that that is exactly what I need to support the full connection bandwidth.
But why oh why can't I get my modem, on any USB port on my machine (whether on the PCI card or one of the original ones) to report the old connection speed? Has the connection speed to my router really been reduced 24 to 54 times?
Does the problem lie at the USB level or has something gone strange with my router? All the settings look OK and the phenomenon is identical whether the router is set to support mixed mode connections or only 802.11g ones.
Or is this is a non-issue?
Any idea? I'm very confused. :help:
Many thanks,
Wendelius