Network card help

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Grumple

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Hi, I got my PC about a month ago and didn't notice any problems. After a day the I noticed that the internet speed on this computer had become a lot slower, my laptop was outperforming by far in the same position (around 5-8 mbps download speed on the laptop and only 0.2-3 on the PC). I then found out I was on the AES setting, was told to change to TKIP. This is good sometimes but most of the time the internet hardly works.

Just wondering if there's is something wrong with the card or if the drivers are out of date. The cards an edimax 7612pin (the edimax drivers don't seem to make a difference but I was told there are PC specialist drivers).

Oh, one more thing. I thought about the fact that my keyboard was plugged into a USB port near the network card and could be interfering somehow, when i moved the keyboard to one of the front inputs the internet seemed ok for about 15 minutes, then it went back to being slow. Not sure what this means.

Thanks for reading :)
 
Corfate

Corfate

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I hate wireless internet. I got the same card from PCS, and it didn't seem to work, and quite a few people have had problems with it by the looks of things. I got some homeplugs, you can get a pair off amazon for £35. I know it's not ideal, but you'll get a much better connection as it'll be wired :)
 
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Grumple

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Oh, suppose it's good that there's nothing actually wrong with the card. How do homeplugs work? do they connect wirelessly themselves and then connect to the PC? or are they pretty much an Ethernet port like one in the wall?

Thanks for the reply btw :) was wondering if anyone else had had the same problem.
 
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Corfate

Corfate

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One cable goes from your router to the homeplug in the wall socket. The signal then travels through your house main electrics, then comes out the other homeplug that connects into the ethernet port of your pc. It's a wired connection, so it's better than wireless. You can get more than 2 homeplugs too, so you can get internet from any of your wall sockets :)
 
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mart22

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Grumple said:
Oh, suppose it's good that there's nothing actually wrong with the card. How do homeplugs work? do they connect wirelessly themselves and then connect to the PC? or are they pretty much an Ethernet port like one in the wall?

Thanks for the reply btw :) was wondering if anyone else had had the same problem.
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Yeah, I've had exactly the same problem.
It was with this card: INTEGRATED GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N CARD (AS STANDARD), supplied in a mini PC, built by PCS, I bought just over a year ago.
Sometimes it worked great and gave me a good, fast connection. However, more often than not, it slowed to a snails pace. It was infuriating. The one time I contacted PCS support the card, you guessed it, worked perfectly. And the next time I booted up it reverted to being excruciatingly slow. How typical!
In the end I switched the card off and connected with a wire.
Out of interest do you, like me, have BT's homehub 2 router? It crossed my mind that maybe the problem was router related. Who knows...
 
tom_gr7

tom_gr7

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mart22 said:
Out of interest do you, like me, have BT's homehub 2 router? It crossed my mind that maybe the problem was router related. Who knows...
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My dad's got the hub 3 router and never had a major problem with the wireless using the wifi cards pcs supply. Even through mega thick walls three floors up, obv dont get full 5 bars but it generally works ok.

To be honest I think its more interference from hundreds of household items that causes problems with wireless signal, causing it to drop out frequently. A phone call using a cordless telephone in your house or a nearby house can cause wifi to drop due to the same channel being used.

The internet companies use advertising to lead customers to believe that wireless is perfect and is faultless. It's not perfect at all.
 
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