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Ridiculously slow wifi connection
Hey guys. Upon installing the W7 build 7100 RC (64-bit) I've noticed a gross decrease in wifi speeds and stability. While running XP I averaged at about 10-12mb/s wirelessly which was very stable (1 disconnect every 5-6hours maybe). Now I'm receiving <1mb/s and disconnecting frequently which is a real hassle :/
In reality, even the speed I had on XP was slow considering that my fathers macbook pro reaches speeds of 60-70mb/s wireless from the same place as my stationary stands. I'm well aware of the fact that I have a 54mb/s cap on my network card, but I still think that my network connection should be stronger. Reality aside, I was doing fine with 10-12mb/s despite knowing that somehow I could be getting a faster connection and now it's really unbearable to have <1mb/s.
I've followed tonnes of solution guides on how to set-up wifi on W7 without any success. I've tried countless drivers, let the W7 wizard find appropriate drivers for me, turned on and off Ipv6, changed homegroup settings, messed with the registry and more - Now I don't know what to do next.
One interesting thing (although perhaps trivial?) I noticed while downloading via uTorrent last night was that in the Resource Monitor it said that the network utilization was only at 1% despite me downloading at 100kb/s (which should be more then 10% from uTorrent alone according to the speed test conducting right before). Could this have anything to do with it?
As a final note I'm using a genuine RC client with a genuine key freshly installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.