Howdy from Down-Under,
I recently upgraded to ADSL2 here, the maximum speed being 24mbps, anyway I have a 2wire 2701HGV-W, modem which is comming off a central splitter (needed for back to base alarm) Currently my Mum/Dad’s Computer is attached via ethernet cable and gets a speed test (at www.speedtest.net) with the results being:
13000kbps (which is good considering my distance from exchange)
Now the problem is, my computer that I use is using a NetgearWG111v2 wireless usb thingo rated at a speed of 54mbps, however when I run the speed test io get results of around 6000-7800kbps. The only differences between the computers is the wireless for mine and that their computer is running Vista (mine XPsp2). Is the wireless the reason for this massive drop in speed? I have run programs like SG TCP Optimizer(http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php)and
Unblocka (http://www.unblocka.com/) to try and correct this, apart from running an ethernet cable is there any other way to fix this.
Cheers
Sandman28
