Router speed drops, reboot recovers speed

[ghopson]

Hi,
First post here, but longtime BB user.
Switched over to Sky yesterday, and am getting good speed through it (almost the full 16Mb/s). Lucky me. But, when I connect up a Mac laptop through the wireless interface whilst still connected via ethernet, the speed drops considerably, to about 1000 b/s. I test this by entering

curl -O http://www.f2s.com/test8.zip

(F2S were my old ISP)
Only a router reboot recovers the speed. And this is with the wireless/ethernet combo still connected.

Anyone aware of any problems with the Netgear router that might cause this? I'll be connecting/disconnecting the laptop every day, and don't particularly want to reset the damn router every time I do so.

Thanks,
Geoff

[ghopson]

Kinda solved my own issue here. The slow speed only happened when I was connected via wireless (I'm on a MacBookPro). To fix the issue, I logged into the router, went to wireless settings and set the wireles speed to Auto 108Mbs, as opposed to 'b & g' which it was set to by default.

My download speeds have jumped from 43k/s to 1460k/s

YMMV, but I'm OK Jack

Geoff

[dingdong]

so what speed do you actually connect at using wireless is it 54 or 108?

i suppose i could change mine to the 108 speed despite only having 54 wireless cards, problem is in my area a lot of folks use the default channel to connect so that may cause more problems. i do wish people would transmit their ssid's so i can see what channels they are using and pick something else.

[martyn]

Originally Posted by dingdong

i do wish people would transmit their ssid's so i can see what channels they are using and pick something else.

Hi dingdong, what utils are you using to see the other channels ?

[dingdong]

linksys wireless monitor v.4.3

it shows the channel, ip address, security, connection speed, mac address etc.

[linkin101]

I have this exact same problem. everytime i connect a computer in the network the speed drops from 6.7mb to 2mb, and only a reboot of the router fixes the problem.

I have a belkin 7633.
any help on this will be greatly appreciated