Laptop wi-fi slow.

[Balmoral Green]

BG junior has been unable to use his lap top just lately.

It has a really strong signal strength from our livebox, but the speed is only 1 Mbps which is next to useless for him.

I have tried all sorts of faffing about but i'm no techie.

Any tips?

Thanks.

[Plotloss]

Download and install netstumbler onto the laptop, this will show if there are any other networks in range on the same channel.

If there are, change channels.

[Balmoral Green]

Thank you for that, having a fiddle now.

[bigdods]

Just change channel anyway only takes a sec and if the problem goes away then you've saved yourself lots of messing around :-)

[Balmoral Green]

Where do I find the channel changing bit? I've been there before but cant remember how I got to it.

Thanks.

[rich1231]

Balmoral Green said:

Where do I find the channel changing bit? I've been there before but cant remember how I got to it.

Thanks.

try the following

http://192.168.0.1

almost certainly the default ip for your router/wireless ap.

[Balmoral Green]

A belated thank you.

Changed channels, all very swift now.