[CS-FSLUG] weird network problems

[Tim Young]

"David M." wrote:
> Well I'm certainly not going to take the wind out of your sails this time my
> friend. As a matter of fact, I haven't lost connection since yesterday when I
> tried your recomendation and hard coded the IP address and Gateway and the 2
> DNS addresses into the router.
> 
> So far so good. no connection loss.

Excellent!  Praise the Lord.

> On a side note, would you by any chance know how I can give a speed boost to
> the wireless client? On my machine I am getting 52.316 MBps which is faster
> than a T2 line on my machine but the wireless machine gets only around 150 -
> 200 Kbps which is around an ISDN line. Would you by any chance know what
> would either cause this or a way to distribute the speed between both
> computers?

Your wireless is 11Mbps, the 802.11b standard.  So that is as fast as it will
ever go.  802.11g will go up to 52Mbps.  One of the reasons the wireless often
does not attain it's potential (or advertised) speeds, is because wise people
use encryption on their connections.  The encryption adds overhead, both to the
WAP and to the computer, and that usually has the slowing-down effect.

You may be able to decrease your encryption strength to 40bit instead of
128bit.  Mostly for a home network you do not have to be horrendously paranoid
about someone breaking into your network.  It is usually not worth the trouble
to go to for an individual.  But you should have some encryption to keep just
anyone from using your WAP.

So you might be able to speed it up some, but if you want much higher speeds,
you will need to buy 802.11g equipment.

	- Tim Young