Wireless network slow?

[Aprisa]

Just converted the office to wireless, all seems ok except one of the five pc's seems to have a delay.

As they are all the same, what could be causing this one Pc to be slower than the rest. It does also seem to take a long time to boot up and probably has a lot of crap on it, would this affect the access speed?

Any help appreciated.
Nick

[arcturus]

The amount of stuff on the computer shouldn't really affect access time over the WLAN other than it may be a bit slow to start transferring files (just as it's a bit slow starting up), but once it gets going it should be as quick as the others.

Things to check: has this machine been accidently put into B mode instead of G mode. This would reduce max network speed from 54Mbps to 11Mbps.

Has some spyware or virus got into your system? Run a system scan with your anti-virus and run a spyware check with AdAware (free from www.lavasoft.de). A customers machine recently slowed right down due to having loads of spyware on it.

[Marshy]

If your network speed is slow, that PC could just be in a radio dead spot. Your wireless drivers should give you an indication of signal strength and hence network speed. With 802.11b it'll step down from 11Mbit/s to 5.5 to 2 to 1 as the signal seen by the station degrades.

[Aprisa]

Thanks Guys.
I have just done an invoice run and that is painfully slow! Signal strength is 100% on all Pc's and we are talking a small office here (no more than 30ft between Pc's.

Is it possible to have the two main pc's wired on the Network/ADSL router to speed these up but have the other ones via the wireless connection alll on the same workgroup?
(there are 4 ports on the router)
Nick

>> Edited by Aprisa on Monday 26th January 12:12

[agent006]

It's possible to connect pcs to the router, and have them on the same workgroup as the wireless ones. Just keep the same Ip addressing scheme as they've got now.

[Aprisa]

Thanks agent, will try that on Wednesday.

Nick

[malman]

If it has a normal lan adapter(possibly on m-board) and a Wlan adapter in at the same time, check that the network bindings are in the right order.

[Aprisa]

malman said:

If it has a normal lan adapter(possibly on m-board) and a Wlan adapter in at the same time, check that the network bindings are in the right order.

You've lost me there, what do I need to do to achieve this?
Thanks Nick

[malman]

2000/XP its in

Right click "My network places" and select properties.
Then select "Advanced" menu item at the top then select "Advanced Settings" on that menu.
You should now see "Adapters and Bindings" dialogue box. Make sure the adapter that you are actually using is at the top of the list eg: WLAN adapter if you are on the wireless network or Ethernet card if you are using cat 5 cable.


If you are using 95/98 can't remember where it is but let me know and I'll see if I can dig it up.