Re: Home wireless router slows down communication

They may be true but it doesn't explain why I'm so much slower with the router than without.

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Booth Martin --- Re: [PCTECH] Home wireless router slows down communication ---
From:"Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To:"PC Technical Discussion for IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Date:Sat, Sep 10, 2016 12:55 PMSubject:Re: [PCTECH] Home wireless router slows down communication
What made the difference for me was the modem. My modem was 5 years old. I bought a new one ($40) and my home speeds at least tripled. Downloads of 1.5Mbps to 4Mbps jumped to 12Mbps and higher. Thats my PC through a wired router to a cable modem. On 9/10/2016 9:35 AM, Rob Berendt wrote: > Wired Through Router > Download 0.83Mbps > Upload 0.39Mbps > > Wireless Through Router > Download 0.50 Mbps > Upload 0.38 Mbps > > Wired direct, No Router > Download 1.37Mbps > Upload 0.44Mbps > > I did ensure, via the router, that I was running solo on the router. > Earlier I did have to thrash a kid, and disable their DHCP address. > > > Rob Berendt > -- This is the PC Technical Discussion for IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) Users (PcTech) mailing list To post a message email: PcTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/pctech or email: PcTech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech.