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Dusty Van:
Win 7 Pro x64. I was running cable on this machine. Recently moved into a condo until the house is ready in a couple of months. This place is setup for WiFi. Since the machine was setup for cable I had to adapt. After a couple of days research I settled on a Linksys AE2500 wireless N USB adapter. Ok, here's the spooky part. My iPad 3 clocks at speedtest.net at 15mbs down  & 1.5mbs up. My windows machine clocks in at 0.5 to 2.5mbs down & 1.0mbs up. Terrible. My browser times out before some pages fully load. Some times email client times out trying to fetch. I have no clue what to do. Any one with any ideas? As usual comments or flames welcome.
Tnx,
Dusty

Shane:
I dont know the adapter, so I dont know how well it performs, but unless it just cant get a good signal then a lot of times the problem is driver or firewall related.

What version is the driver that is installed for it? Are you using the windows built in wifi manager or the one that comes with linksys (I prefer windows built in one)

Also how is the signal strength?

It is also possible it is just a compatibility problem with the router, I have had that happen with some adapters and different routers, a lot of times a router firmware update will fix it as they fix the bugs in them, for others I had to use a different adapter, but once I replaced my router with a newer, better model all the adapters worked fine.

So as you can see it can be a number of things that can cause the same problem, so now begins the process of elimination.  :wink:

Shane

Julian:

--- Quote from: Dusty Van on July 07, 2015, 07:18:57 pm ---Win 7 Pro x64. I was running cable on this machine. Recently moved into a condo until the house is ready in a couple of months. This place is setup for WiFi. Since the machine was setup for cable I had to adapt. After a couple of days research I settled on a Linksys AE2500 wireless N USB adapter. Ok, here's the spooky part. My iPad 3 clocks at speedtest.net at 15mbs down  & 1.5mbs up. My windows machine clocks in at 0.5 to 2.5mbs down & 1.0mbs up. Terrible. My browser times out before some pages fully load. Some times email client times out trying to fetch. I have no clue what to do. Any one with any ideas? As usual comments or flames welcome.
Tnx,
Dusty

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link for your driver:
http://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=148503

Boggin:
Open a command prompt and enter netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid and that will show the signal strength between the computer and router.

You want to be at least in the upper 60s % but the higher value the better.

You haven't said if you are using a laptop or desktop, but repositioning can make quite a difference if other factors aren't the cause.

Dusty Van:
Thanks for the reply. 1st, signal strength is 76%. Full report attached, other hosts edited out. Something I found this morning. In device manager, when I first installed the AE2500 there were 2 entries under network adapters:
Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
Linksys AE2500.
Then this morning these appeared:
Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
TAP-Win32 Adapter V9
These last 2 could have been there for up to 3 days, I don't know. Could this be a source of conflicts?

The router is a Linksys Wireless-N150 Router so I got the Linksys USB adapter figuring I'd most likely avoid hardware conflicts using the same brand. As for the firmware update, I don't have access to the router, who ever set this up changed the IP address to keep idiots (like me. lol) out. The owner doesn't have even a clue what a router is.

Shane mentioned the Windows 7 driver. I did the initial install using the Linksys disk. I'd be willing to try the windows driver but where do I find/install that one?

What saith thee all ye of great knowledge?   

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