Problem with wireless network web access


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I've recently been able to access my university's wireless network from my hall room, with the help of a d-link card and antenna and, whilst the signal strength and link quality are ok, ranging from 60-90%, the speed of general net surfing is sloo-oow and frequently doesn't show pages at all. This is in contrast with the quality of download speeds, which are 100kB/sec+. I was wondering whether anyone could give any advice as how to improve the speed of general surfing.

Thanks in advance

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get a browser like firebird that doesn't "hold back" the page from you as it's still loading. So it'll show text almost instantly, then load pics. And if you're downloading at that speed WHILE surfing, then you're of course gonna encounter drops in surfing speed

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I've recently been able to access my university's wireless network from my hall room, with the help of a d-link card and antenna and, whilst the signal strength and link quality are ok, ranging from 60-90%, the speed of general net surfing is sloo-oow and frequently doesn't show pages at all. This is in contrast with the quality of download speeds, which are 100kB/sec+. I was wondering whether anyone could give any advice as how to improve the speed of general surfing.

Thanks in advance

There are certain factors why the speed is slow (from my experience with wireless):

- Bad positioning of access points

- Poor signal

- Interference

- Network congestion

- Many users accessing wireless (LAN & Wireless networks are separate if i'm not mistaken)

You could move to a different location (or rather, nearer to the access points) and see if the speed is better. In most cases that i've experienced, it is usually a badly positioned access point (as in the case of my institute). You should also remember that if there are many people using wireless, it can affect the speed as well. That's just from my experience with wireless for about half a year.

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Also, try other access points with the D-Link Airplus utility to see if the condition improves. There should be a few around your campus. Try the one with the highest strength first then slowly go down the ladder. If all else fails, maybe you should ask the networking department or something like that (one that handles the wireless connectivity, access points and stuff) - tell them about it, they should be able to help too. If wireless is fairly new around your campus, this kind of "teething" problems are nothing unusual (as it happened in my institution before).

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