Thank you Purgatory and Betenoir.Your advice is very much appreciated, I will do what you recommended and will let you know of the outcome.

As i am using wireless im also interested in the relation between signal strength and broadband speed/Ping?

Thanks again,best wishes to all. Quote

Thank you Purgatory and Betenoir.Your advice is very much appreciated, I will do what you recommended and will let you know of the outcome.

As i am using wireless im also interested in the relation between signal strength and broadband speed/Ping?

Thanks again,best wishes to all.



Wireless will always add more latency (lag/higher ping rates) than a wired connection eg via a ethernet cable to the router then to pc. I always use a ethernet cable on the main pc because I get better latency and I never have to worry about signal strength.

Only times I use wireless is on my phone and the laptop when i'm just browsing pages. All other times i'm on the ethernet cable.. I have a N+ router but still dislike that little latency increase you get on any wireless device and anytime my girlfriend's laptop connects on the wireless router the whole connection drops to the G standard wireless because the wireless router will only work at the fastest rate if all devices trying to connect are capable of the fast rates of N+, if not it will drop to the speed of the slowest WIFI device trying to connect.


Also what you have to remember too is what Standard/specification of wireless you are using..

A good page here explains the different standards and what they are best used for..

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/UK/en/learningcenter/WirelessStandards


You may have got from that page N-type routers and N-type wireless cards are the way to go for high bandwidth use.. So really you should be using a N+ Dual band router and N+ wireless card and have good signal strength to really get the best out of wireless on high bandwidth applications like video streaming HD content etc.


Or if you can run an ethernet cable to that pc I would do that to rule out a bad wireless connection.. Maybe worth trying as a test an ethernet cable to see if it cures your problems and while the ethernet cable is in do the tracert test I mentioned on the other post and compare the results when on the cable and on the wireless.


Watch the video called "What is Dual Band? (2:03)" (you will need to click the arrow down on the right of the video selections). It makes some good points regarding drop outs in the connection and how you can "get rid of them".. Again depends how many people in your area are using the 5GHz radio spectrum.


http://www.linksysbycisco.com/UK/en/learningcenter


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