The Mighty Hog 518 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I switched from a general run of the mill modem (after it bit the dust) to a wireless router. Now since I've switched my download speeds on torrents have dipped from 100-200 kbs to around 40 or 50kbs at best and today they are topping out at a pathetic 10kbs. It's not just the torrent speeds that are affected downloading from places like rapidshare aren't fantastic either. I tried the guide on portforward.com and it's not made a bit of difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I switched from a general run of the mill modem (after it bit the dust) to a wireless router. Now since I've switched my download speeds on torrents have dipped from 100-200 kbs to around 40 or 50kbs at best and today they are topping out at a pathetic 10kbs. It's not just the torrent speeds that are affected downloading from places like rapidshare aren't fantastic either. I tried the guide on portforward.com and it's not made a bit of difference. That's a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 My girlfriend's dad has been reporting similar issues. He's not gone from wired to wireless, he's gone from a laptop running wireless through a PCMCIA card to one with an inbuilt wireless card. The speed difference is ridiculous, on the PCMCIA setup, he's can pull 2,800 on download and 590 on upload. On the setup with the inbuilt card, he's pulling about 1080 on download and 120 on upload. As a test we installed the PCMCIA card in the machine with the on-board card and what do you know? It's speed is back up to 2800... I presume you're having similar hardware issues Hog.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Hog 518 Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 Yeah the PC had the wirelss card pre-installed when I bought it from Dell. It just seems to have gradually got worse and worse. I wouldn't care but it's a decent enough router, the Netgear Wireless G and I'm not a million miles away from it, just in the room above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Go wireless, build up the environment with electromagnetic smog - pay the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Go wireless, build up the environment with electromagnetic smog - pay the price. I must admit that study that showed you were exposed to more radiation in an office with an average amount of wireless than you were sat smack under a mobile phone mast was pretty eye opening. There's a couple of studies suggesting negative biological effects now (although whether it'll pan out like cigarettes & cancer or MMR & Autism ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve 0 Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 My girlfriend's dad has been reporting similar issues. Sure I've been gone a while but this just had me shocked. Craig? Girlfriend? As well as a wife or instead of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 My girlfriend's dad has been reporting similar issues. Sure I've been gone a while but this just had me shocked. Craig? Girlfriend? As well as a wife or instead of? I have a girlfriend AND a decree nisi Steve... Hoping for the absolute pretty soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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