Any tips for tweaking XP for wifi?
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Any tips for tweaking XP for wifi?
02-01-2014 2:28 PM
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02-01-2014 2:40 PM
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02-01-2014 2:45 PM
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02-01-2014 3:12 PM
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Quote from: JPN My steam powered laptop (around 12yrs old) is giving me around 4Mb/s up and down on wireless
There will likely be so many bottlenecks in a system like that that it's probably not even worth trying to improve, except as noted, checking that RWIN is suitably large.
FWIW I can get as good speed (wireless or wired) out of a half-decent XP system (laptop or desktop) as I can any modern one on my 20mbps ADSL line. But that requires a good-quality wireless-n device.
Not sure I could push 80mbps FTTC to the limits though, even using a Gigabit wired LAN connection.
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02-01-2014 4:38 PM
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02-01-2014 4:54 PM
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Down 32.23 Mb/s; Up 18.38 Mb/s; Latency 19 ms
York.
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02-01-2014 6:17 PM
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Dandroid - I'd be delighted with 11Mb/s!
Thanks to those that mentioned RWIN - that was what was at the back of my mind as a setting I'd looked at years ago when setting up the original network. I've changed the value as suggested in the various tools referenced here. Not sure what the original value was, but it's not made any difference (or a very marginal one) so I guess I'll leave it at that.
thanks again.
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02-01-2014 6:25 PM
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Quote from: JPN Dandroid - I'd be delighted with 11Mb/s!
11Mb/s is the wireless bandwidth of 802.11b, actual throughput will be just a fraction of that (for all sorts of good technical reasons) and you need to be very lucky to get anywhere near 50%, hence the comment that 4Mb/s is probably pretty good.
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02-01-2014 9:21 PM
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02-01-2014 10:55 PM
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I've dug up the spec, and it is an 802.11b component, so I'll count myself lucky to be getting nearly 5Mb/s at the last check, and be happy with that.
Thank's all for the advice, most appreciated.
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02-01-2014 11:41 PM
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Why, XP will tell you the connection speed and type?
Quote from: JPN I've dug up the spec
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03-01-2014 1:18 PM
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03-01-2014 1:47 PM
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