In one bedroom we have a just over a year old dell desktop computer with Vista. Has a modem going to it. I have put in a Netgear wireless g router to use in the other bedroom with my much older (3-4 years?) dell laptop with XP. At my mom's house the laptop works pretty well with her wireless. It's older and only has 1 GB ram, but I can get online with reasonable speeds. However, in this house it's horrible! It started off ok when I first set it up, not really fast, but tolerable, but then something went crazy with the modem and we had to exchange it and a second modem as well. We're on a third modem which looks completely different from the other 2 modems, but internet works great on the desktop now. Very fast.
The lptop is horrible though. It's actually worse than dial up. It take forever to load a page and sometimes just doesn't. That's with internet explorer 8. When I tried Firefox it was even worse, completely unusable.
I use the laptop about 20 feet away from the desktop and router. Is there a way to make it go faster at this house??
Also, when it connects, the signal shows all green for every bar. But then after a while it will drop the connection and try to connect to the other wireless signals in the area that only have 0 or 1 bars.
The lptop is horrible though. It's actually worse than dial up. It take forever to load a page and sometimes just doesn't. That's with internet explorer 8. When I tried Firefox it was even worse, completely unusable.
I use the laptop about 20 feet away from the desktop and router. Is there a way to make it go faster at this house??
Also, when it connects, the signal shows all green for every bar. But then after a while it will drop the connection and try to connect to the other wireless signals in the area that only have 0 or 1 bars.