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by: mtatwo July 23, 2012 4:14 PM PDT

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by mtatwo - 7/23/12 4:14 PM

hello,

my laptop currently only supports wi-fi b & g. my wife's laptop supports n, & it downloads 4 or more times faster, from cnet internet speed test webpage.
I am lucky if I get 3mbps on my laptop, but her laptop downloads @12-13mbps.

anything I can do to speed up my laptop?

thanks,

Mike


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Clarification request: Did you try an N adapter?

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 7/23/12 4:30 PM

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There are far too many out there today. Most I use are under 20 bucks.

See amazon.com, newegg.com
Bob


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great!....if it will help

by mtatwo - 7/24/12 6:03 AM

In Reply to: Did you try an N adapter? by R. Proffitt Moderator

is that why my wifes pc is so much faster, bc it is an n adapter?


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by bill012 - 7/24/12 9:41 AM

In Reply to: great!....if it will help by mtatwo

That is hard to say. You would have to do some investigation to see if your wifes PC is even using N or if it is just because it has a better designed wireless card.

All N device can run B and G and will actually dynamically change if they cannot get good N signal. Your router would also have to support N.

N is somewhat more tolerant of interference which may allow some increase in speed. A much larger issue is the design of the laptops themselves. Many times the placement of the internal parts in a laptop will trade performance for appearance.

So just using a USB B/G adapter may increase your performance but there is little difference in price between b/g and b/g/n. This is a cheap thing to try for problems like this.

If this would make no difference then you have the larger issue of digging though the OS to find why it is slow.


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