Setting My Router Right


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I've been having a strange problem with my internet the last few weeks.

The speed when connected wirelessly is exceptionally slow (downloads range from 10-40 KB/s) but the second I connect to the modem using a LAN cable the speed goes to 1.4 - 1.5 MB/s.

I should probably state I'm using a TP Link TL WR1043N router.

What I'm wondering is, is it possible that the wireless on the router is somehow damaged? And therefore the speed is suffering? I've changed my password a few times and I checked the Wireless Stats and it says there are no devices connected, but the speed problem persists.

Is there a test I can run to find out how strongly the wireless is performing? Or are there some settings I can set that possibly have been compromised on the router to ensure that the wireless functions as intended? A little lost here, I'm not good when it comes to hardware configuration.

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"but the second I connect to the modem using a LAN cable"

Did you mean router there? Or are you connecting to a device in front of the WR1043N

You say you look at the status and don't show any connections? What about your own connection? You sure your even connecting to your own wireless? maybe your on the one next door?

What security are you using? Are you broadcasting your SSID? Are you connecting with B, G or N? What kind of nic are you using, built in on your laptop? What model? Or usb, pci ? What?

What does your wireless supplicant say your connected at?

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I'm sure I'm connected to my own device because I've set the SSID name and I connect to that using a password I set, I cannot be on my neighbour's. Yes, I mean the second I connect to my router. My own connection won't show because it's on LAN, and I'm looking at the people connected via Wireless.

I'm using WPA2 PSK as security. Connection mode is 11bgn mixed.

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11? that does not seem right.. Why are you set to mixed mode? Do you have B and G devices?

Who says its your router causing the issue and not your wireless nic -- what wireless nic do you have? Is it builtin, usb, pci? what is make and model number? Again what speed does your supplicant show you connected at? What is the signal strength?

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People in my house use Blackberries, iPhones, MacBooks and Windows laptops to connect to the device, I've always remembered it being set to 11bgn mixed. Should I change that, and more importantly, does this increase wireless performance?

I don't know how to check my "Wirless NIC", can you tell me how to? Signal strength is full.

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Wireless can only actually talk to 1 device at a time. If you have devices connecting at B or G, then yeah they will slow down the network to those speeds vs if all the devices were connecting at N.

I would have to assume every thing is capable of atleast G, so I would turn off B for sure!

You don't know if your wireless interface is bult in, a usb dongle or pci card?? Come on??

Are you using a laptop? If so what is the make and model? Does it have a USB thing sticking out the side you use to connect to wireless? Are you on a desktop with a card you installed or came with the thing that has little antennas off of itor cable that goes to an antenna?

See where you see signal strength click that and you will get status of the network your connected too, like at what speed your connected the description of the wireless card your using.

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That is if your using windows 7 built in supplicant, maybe your using one from the maker of your card?

even better, if you go to an eleveated cmd prompt and use netsh wlan, then show interfaces

netsh wlan>show interfaces

There is 1 interface on the system:

Name : Wireless Network Connection

Description : DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card

GUID : 737d5c79-2b15-4e24-87cf-6d4afff1c9db

Physical address : 38:59:f9:5f:63:c1

State : connected

SSID : snipped

BSSID : 00:13:10:snipped

Network type : Infrastructure

Radio type : 802.11g

Authentication : WPA2-Personal

Cipher : CCMP

Connection mode : Auto Connect

Channel : 1

Receive rate (Mbps) : 54

Transmit rate (Mbps) : 54

Signal : 92%

Profile : snipped

then if you do show drivers

netsh wlan>show drivers

Interface name: Wireless Network Connection

Driver : DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card

Vendor : Broadcom

Provider : Broadcom

Date : 1/21/2010

Version : 5.60.48.35

INF file : C:\Windows\INF\oem14.inf

Files : 5 total

C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\BCMWL664.SYS

C:\Windows\system32\bcmihvsrv64.dll

C:\Windows\system32\bcmihvui64.dll

C:\Windows\system32\drivers\vwifibus.sys

C:\Windows\system32\bcmwlcoi.dll

Type : Native Wi-Fi Driver

Radio types supported : 802.11n 802.11g 802.11b

FIPS 140-2 mode supported : Yes

Hosted network supported : Yes

Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode:

Open None

Open WEP

Shared None

Shared WEP

WPA2-Enterprise TKIP

WPA2-Personal TKIP

WPA2-Enterprise CCMP

WPA2-Personal CCMP

WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined

WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined

Vendor defined Vendor defined

Vendor defined Vendor defined

Vendor defined TKIP

Vendor defined CCMP

WPA-Enterprise TKIP

WPA-Personal TKIP

WPA-Enterprise CCMP

WPA-Personal CCMP

Authentication and cipher supported in ad-hoc mode:

WPA2-Personal CCMP

Open None

Open WEP

IHV service present : Yes

IHV adapter OUI : [00 10 18], type: [00]

IHV extensibility DLL path: C:\Windows\System32\bcmihvsrv64.dll

IHV UI extensibility ClSID: {aaa6dee9-31b9-4f18-ab39-82ef9b06eb73}

IHV diagnostics CLSID : {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

show all would give a full dump of your wireless settings - which might be very useful. That is if your using w7 or vista.

So you have these other computers and devices connected to the same router. You sure someone is not just doing p2p? Or downloading something large? What speeds do they get? One wireless client moving a large chunk of data can kill the wireless for all the wireless clients. Its shared bandwidth!!

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Haha, oh that. Yeah man it's a built in card on the MacBooks. They're the ones that are running slow. The Windows laptop is a little slow, but it's okay.

Strength is ALWAYS full for the network.

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