Wireless help...

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

I have a netgear wireless transmitter for years and it's worked fine. I started using a direct connection (because it was there) and now when I use the wireless, it seems to bottleneck after a little while. Sites & pages take forever to load and I usually have to close and reopen the browser. I can open a new site but after a few links, if slows down again.

Any ideas? TIA

sockgirl77 · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
I have a netgear wireless transmitter for years and it's worked fine. I started using a direct connection (because it was there) and now when I use the wireless, it seems to bottleneck after a little while. Sites & pages take forever to load and I usually have to close and reopen the browser. I can open a new site but after a few links, if slows down again.

Any ideas? TIA

Get a new wireless transmitter.

K_Jo · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
I have a netgear wireless transmitter for years and it's worked fine. I started using a direct connection (because it was there) and now when I use the wireless, it seems to bottleneck after a little while. Sites & pages take forever to load and I usually have to close and reopen the browser. I can open a new site but after a few links, if slows down again.

Any ideas? TIA

Is that what's been logging you in and out of YIMer all damn day? :tantrum

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

K_Jo said:
Is that what's been logging you in and out of YIMer all damn day?

Yes. I moved to a hard connection now.

K_Jo · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
Yes. I moved to a hard connection now.

sockgirl77 · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
Yes. I am hard now.

You must be looking at pics of K_Jo's boobs now.

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

K_Jo said:

sockgirl77 said:
You must be looking at pics of K_Jo's boobs now.

I'm not like that. :eyebrow:

She is my friend.

sockgirl77 · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
I'm not like that. She is my friend.

You can't JO while fantasizing about friends? You do have some damn sexy friends. :shrug:

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

sockgirl77 said:
You can't JO while fantasizing about friends? You do have some damn sexy friends. :shrug:

This is not getting my question answered. :tap:

sockgirl77 · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
This is not getting my question answered.

No, but it is keeping the thread bumped. You're welcome.

Ladybug76 · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
I have a netgear wireless transmitter for years and it's worked fine. I started using a direct connection (because it was there) and now when I use the wireless, it seems to bottleneck after a little while. Sites & pages take forever to load and I usually have to close and reopen the browser. I can open a new site but after a few links, if slows down again.

Any ideas? TIA

This happens to me too. I have to unplug the power on my modem (Motorolla) for a few minutes to refresh the signal. I have no idea if this is the right thing to do, but it seems to work for me.

GWguy · Feb 22, 2008

Try removing everything, then re-installing. While the wireless device is still installed, go to the Hardware Manager and de-install the device. Then goto Add/Remove programs and remove the associated software. Then re-boot, and re-install as per the device instructions.

(blasted motor heads.....)

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

GWguy said:
Try removing everything, then re-installing. While the wireless device is still installed, go to the Hardware Manager and de-install the device. Then goto Add/Remove programs and remove the associated software. Then re-boot, and re-install as per the device instructions.
(blasted motor heads.....)

What device are you referring to? Where do I reinstall from? I don't have CD's or anything and the netgear transmitter sits across the room on a table. :shrug:

GWguy · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
What device are you referring to? Where do I reinstall from? I don't have CD's or anything and the netgear transmitter sits across the room on a table. :shrug:

Not the Netgear, the wireless device in your PC. You should have a driver disk for it, or get the driver from the vendor.

If the wireless device is built-in, after you deinstall and reboot, the system will find the device and ask to reload the software. If you have the driver disk, you insert it then, or download the driver before hand.

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

GWguy said:
Not the Netgear, the wireless device in your PC. You should have a driver disk for it, or get the driver from the vendor.

If the wireless device is built-in, after you deinstall and reboot, the system will find the device and ask to reload the software. If you have the driver disk, you insert it then, or download the driver before hand.

Well I had the same problem with my old laptop so I'm thinking it's not the device. Agree?

Baja28 · Feb 22, 2008

GWguy said:
Not the Netgear, the wireless device in your PC. You should have a driver disk for it, or get the driver from the vendor.

If the wireless device is built-in, after you deinstall and reboot, the system will find the device and ask to reload the software. If you have the driver disk, you insert it then, or download the driver before hand.

Well I had the same problem with my old laptop so I'm thinking it's not the device. Agree?

GWguy · Feb 22, 2008

Baja28 said:
Well I had the same problem with my old laptop so I'm thinking it's not the device. Agree?

You don't have to repeat yourself..... :jameo:

Ok, didn't know about the other laptop. Not the laptop. Do you live nearby other houses? Someone "could" be tapping into your wireless signal and sucking up your bandwidth. Do you have a wireless phone (not cell) ? They use the same frequency (2.4Ghz) and could be interfering with each other.

Just guesses... :shrug:

desertrat · Feb 23, 2008

Baja28 said:
Well I had the same problem with my old laptop so I'm thinking it's not the device. Agree?

If you are on a laptop now you might want to try taking it somewhere else that you can get a signal. See what happens.

MrX · Feb 23, 2008

My GF had the same issue and worse at her apartment; She was using the wireless from her parents Netgear router down the hill from her. The connection would be okay, then get really slow. Reboot the router and it would be good for a few days and then repeat. It slowly became worse....the connection would just drop. Reboot the router and it would come back and be fine...but last for maybe half an hour before it needed rebooting again. I replaced it with a Belkin router, never had the issue again...and the connection was faster than it had ever been.

Ive never had good experiences with Netgear products.

Baja28 · Feb 23, 2008

MrX said:
My GF had the same issue and worse at her apartment; She was using the wireless from her parents Netgear router down the hill from her. The connection would be okay, then get really slow. Reboot the router and it would be good for a few days and then repeat. It slowly became worse....the connection would just drop. Reboot the router and it would come back and be fine...but last for maybe half an hour before it needed rebooting again. I replaced it with a Belkin router, never had the issue again...and the connection was faster than it had ever been.

Ive never had good experiences with Netgear products.

BINGO!!!! I stopped today and grabbed a Linksys Wireless G. Came right up, faster than ever!! The old netgear had blown it's load.

Thanks to everyone who helped!!! :high5:

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