My fiancee got a part time position at a library so I usually go with her and hang out on the computer for the 4 hours while she works. In the beginning the signal was excellent. I was able to download wow and the ptr at like 2 mb/s. About a week ago the signal went from excellent to very poor. The download speed seems to only get up to a maximum of like 30 kb/s on a speed of like 1.0 Mbps.
I've tried diagnosing the problem through the support or whatever on vista. I've tried teetering if the advanced settings on the wireless card. Nothing really seems to help. The wireless connection seems to have a number of different MAC addresses some have good quality the others don't so I don't know why I'm not connecting to the best one possible.
Specs:
Dell Inspiron 1525
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit SP2
Intel Duo Core T5550 1.83 GHz, 1.83 GHz
3 gb RAM
Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card
Thanks for any help or suggestions
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The problem is almost certanly on the library wireless end. Think of a wireless hotspot like a big kettle of soup at a cafeteria. If you are the only person in line for that day, they get out the biiiiiig scoup and you get a huge bowl of soup. The next day though, if 40 people show up for that soup, they get out the little scoop and you get alot less soup. on day 3, 50 people show up, and there is only enough soup for 49, so person 50 doesn't get any soup.
If you were to walk around the library, I bet you would find several other laptops with people downloading large videos and whatnot. If people are going to steal a movie, why not have the evidence trail lead back to a government building rather than your house?
If you were to walk around the library, I bet you would find several other laptops with people downloading large videos and whatnot. If people are going to steal a movie, why not have the evidence trail lead back to a government building rather than your house?
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Yeah, I understand that. Though from where I sit I can usually see a big majority of the people EXCEPT for the people in the computer lab, which could probably be a big reason. I guess I was concerned because it worked great for awhile but since then, I rarely ever get a great signal or great download speed through out the day.
Isn't there a program I could get to dish out some bandwidth my way instead of everyone else. /grin I know a guy that did that in the dorms at school and it pretty much caused everyone else internet to go really really slow, though the schools IT department eventually traced it back to him, but he had shut it off by then and denied ever doing it.
Isn't there a program I could get to dish out some bandwidth my way instead of everyone else. /grin I know a guy that did that in the dorms at school and it pretty much caused everyone else internet to go really really slow, though the schools IT department eventually traced it back to him, but he had shut it off by then and denied ever doing it.
Sure, if you know the router admin password or can guess it. i'd say probably 60% of router passwords out there on the planet are still the default access address of 192.168.1.1 with a password of "admin" and a blank username. If you can get into that you can do whatever you want. And then go to prison when they figure it out in about 20 minutes. but your call!
If you just want to see approximately where the wifi node actually is, what signal strenght spots are best, etc, try this:
http://www.xirrus.com/library/wifitools.php
If you just want to see approximately where the wifi node actually is, what signal strenght spots are best, etc, try this:
http://www.xirrus.com/library/wifitools.php
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Thanks for the link. I'll try that out next time I'm there. We'll see what happens.
Thanks for the link. I'll try that out next time I'm there. We'll see what happens.
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