Wireless card may be broken - need checklist

JG2206 · 05 Jul 2013

Hello everyone,

Over the last few months i have noticed my wireless internet on this PC deteriorating in download speeds. My speedtest results on this PC are around 2mb down, and close to 1mb up, shown here https://www.speedtest.net/result/2817704144.png
I used to be able to get around 5/6mb down on the PC.

On my laptop which is also connected through wireless, and in the same room as the PC, i can get around 6/7mb down, and around the same up (~1mb)

The wireless card i have in the PC is an Asus PCE-N15 11n Wireless LAN PCI-E Card, which is around 1.5 years old, with the up to date driver. I updated the driver few days ago, hoping it would help, but it hasnt.

I would like to know my options. Are there maybe some settings i could check or change?

Thanks for any help, let me know if you need more information.

2xg · 05 Jul 2013

Hello,

Check the setting of your Asus adapter and try changing the wireless mode, if it's setup to a default which is a mixed mode, fiddle with the setting, try the N (if your router supports this mode), or G/N. You may do the same thing in your router's setting by changing the wireless mode.

Hope to hear back from you with an update.

JG2206 · 05 Jul 2013

thanks for reply

under computer management network adapters i clicked on the Asus one, and in the advanced tab the settings are as follows

11n AdHoc - Disabled
802.11d - Disabled
Bandwidth - 20_40MHz
Beacon Interval - 100
Preamble Mode - Short & Long
Roaming Sensitivity Level - Low
TX power Level - Auto
Wifi Config - Performance
Wireless Mode - IEEE 802.11b/g/n

the other options in wireless mode were IEEE 802.11b/g and IEEE 802.11b, i tried both but didnt seem to help my speedtests.
Thoughts?