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February 13, 2006 at 10:53 AM
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Wireless how fast should it be ?

by camsbhb . Updated 20 years, 4 months ago

Hi can anyone help me, I don’t know much about these things but I was sold this system thinking it was the way of the future and it is actually worse than a 56K dial up modem. I have a connection block which tells me my systems connected 100Mbps. My major problem is when I either upload to my homepage it times out and sometimes I get cut off whilst downloading. Unfortunately I cannot give you more info than this, I am approximately 2500 Metres from the tower, using a 17db antenna and a 128 LAN hub unit, my computer is an Intel Celeron CPU 2.66GHz with 248 MB of Ram. Example, I downloaded a 9.81 MB Program at 07:00 and it took me around 35 minutes to download. At 14:30 it took me 1hour and 50 mins to download a 5212KB Program then again at 19:00 the system shows me I am downloading at 629B/S Can someone tell me if they think this is slow or normal or fast and what tests can I do what can I download to prove the equipment is wrong and my main concern for you people out there is I am in South Africa and keep getting fobbed off with excuses about it’s probably the servers busy where you’re trying to reach. Please help me if you can. Sorry about the lack of info but I am relatively new to this computer game so take it easy with me.

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