Need help with Routers and Speed issues!!!!! Router is taking my speed away???

[Breny]

Originally Posted by mickey3696

We also have the satalite net and had to go to the netgear. It worked for us!!

Really??? what issues were you having??? What were you using before???? THANKS!!!!!!

[mickey3696]

I am not sure wich other ones we tryed but it took 3 for us to go with netgear. Ours was running slow, it wouldnt pickup our printer, just things like that. My hubby does all that kind of stuff. I just went with him to get them and listened to him wine when they didnt work LOL. Sorry I cant be much help.

[Breny]

Bumping this to see if the day shift has any ideas for me???

Also would love to know what router you gamers are using !!!!

[Breny]

Originally Posted by Breny

Bumping this to see if the day shift has any ideas for me???

Also would love to know what router you gamers are using !!!!

Anyone???

[laurenr]

Do you know what channel your router is on? Very often, your neighbor's router may be on the same channel as yours. This will cause a great reduction in data speed to your setup. For example, I am on a Mac. Using a utility called "iStumbler", I can see what channels surrounding networks are on. My closest neighbor is on Channel 6, so I set mine to Channel 3. This caused a significant boost in speed. I checked on the website of your Belkin router. Their user manual is here:
http://www.belkin.com/support/produc...&pid=F5D9230-4
If you download it, check on page 47. It will show you how to access all internal settings, such as changing from "b" to "g" mode, changing channels, etc. The channel you select should be at least 3 digits away from the closest one (eg. your neighbor's).

I assume your computer is a PC running Windows XP or Vista. The same settings will apply. The only thing is that you will need a "wireless discovery tool" that allows you to see surrounding networks, so that you can choose a channel that hopefully no-one/fewer users are using.
I am going out for a while, but will check in here later if you need help. Feel free to PM me if you want.
Lauren

[Bizzymammabee]

Breny,

Hon sorry I didn't look back at the post online. I will check the model and pm you about it when I get home. This one totally rocks. Hubby is a big online gamer. He plays Call of Duty 4, Madden, NHL etc all the time. Big crackhead gamer. Ours is in the diningroom, xbox 360's in each of the kids room and livingroom and at his statiion in the diningroom, also runing a pc there, in the girls room and my laptop in our bedroom.. no problems at all.

Beth