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Slow wifi (dongles) on my router, but not on another one?
My teenagers both have pretty beefy PCs, both built within the last year. They each have wifi dongles to connect to the router. I have them on their own router.
They've always complained about the crappy speed, dropped connections, intermittent connections, etc. They usually get only about 1-2 Mbps max. I've had them on two different routers (Linksys running Tomato, and now a DLink DIR-615) and they had the exact same problem on both of them. I've carried two different laptops to their rooms and I get a rock-solid 10Mbps download, which is what my connection is capped at. Since my laptops work and their dongles don't, I always assumed something was wrong with their dongles.
Their mom just moved to a new house and got a smokin' broadband connection. My son says he just got over 35 Mbps down, almost 7 Mbps up -- **using his dongle**.
So my laptops work fine on my router, and their dongles don't. On two different routers.
But their dongles work great with Mom's router.
!??
I ran a wifi sniffer (can't remember the name now, it was on a previous laptop) and there are two neighbors with wifis but their signal is much weaker than ours -- and they're not even visible from one son's room.
I asked what security Mom's router uses. It's WPA2/AES. Their current DLink router auto-chooses WPA/WPA2 and TKIP/AES so I'm not sure exactly what they're running now, but I'm 99% sure I ran WPA2/AES on the previous router.
I haven't tried running their dongles on my laptops, but that might be worth a try.
Any guesses or suggestions?
I'm not sure what model dongles they have but I can find out if needed. I'm pretty sure they're both running current drivers. They're both running Win7, 64bit I think.
Thanks!