Wireless connection help
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Wireless connection help
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I have an orange connection its adsl on a bt line and I have an N150 router.
When on wireless the performance is pretty damn dismal- one streaming vid at a time that keeps buffering.
When I use a wire its as I expect it - good quality and pretty quick.
I am no more than 10m away from the router at any time and its a normal brick house.
What am I doing wrong?
Jake
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I have an orange connection its adsl on a bt line and I have an N150 router.
When on wireless the performance is pretty damn dismal- one streaming vid at a time that keeps buffering.
When I use a wire its as I expect it - good quality and pretty quick.
I am no more than 10m away from the router at any time and its a normal brick house.
What am I doing wrong?
Jake
please be as none techy as poss.
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I had something similar with my Virgin one and I'm as non tecchy as it gets. I'm doing this from memory as I was talked thru it on the phone by Virgin, so hope it make some sense and helps.
My signal from the router was being masked by all the other wireless networks of my neighbours as all were set to the fastest connection level/frequency and it was interfering so my computer couldn't recognise which was mine and slowing down. They told me to turn it down to the next fastest level (which is still faster than the connection
) and it works great now. As long as you connect it to your network - ie, shing's or whatever you've called it - you should have an option once you've logged into the router for connection speed. Try turning this down one so it's likely to be different to everyone else closeby (virgin said they all default to fastest speed).
Most routers are admin/password and to get in most ip adddresses are a variation on 192.168.0.0
I've read that back and it doesn't make much sense to me but I'm sorry I don't know how to phrase it any better, I'm worse with computers than I am spanners.
My signal from the router was being masked by all the other wireless networks of my neighbours as all were set to the fastest connection level/frequency and it was interfering so my computer couldn't recognise which was mine and slowing down. They told me to turn it down to the next fastest level (which is still faster than the connection
) and it works great now. As long as you connect it to your network - ie, shing's or whatever you've called it - you should have an option once you've logged into the router for connection speed. Try turning this down one so it's likely to be different to everyone else closeby (virgin said they all default to fastest speed). Most routers are admin/password and to get in most ip adddresses are a variation on 192.168.0.0
I've read that back and it doesn't make much sense to me but I'm sorry I don't know how to phrase it any better, I'm worse with computers than I am spanners.
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My BT home hub gives crap signal in my gaff as it's old and built properly. I run a slave wireless Linksey router which has better wireless antennas and it booms round the house. All for £20 as there refurb units!
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my orange is the same aswell, the only way i get a good realible speed is by plugging the pc directly into the master socket, but i cant have a pc, 19' screen and 5.1 speakers sat behind the front door in the hall way
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