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The wireless speed will always be slower than the hard-wired one. The technology was (years ago) developed for an office space or Starbucks type deployment where the wireless hub would be in the middle of the same room in which the computers would be used.
Common sources of wireless problems you CAN control:
Cordless Phones
Cell Phones
Garage door openers (yours)
Flourecent lights (bad or failing balast especially bad)
High intensity desk lamps
Energy Saver flourecent light bulbs
Common sources of wireless problems you may or may not be able to control:
Garage door openers (your neighbor's)
Law Enforcement ankle bracelets
Walls
Floors
Bad or failing brushes in electric motors (refrigerator, dryer etc.)
Common sources of wireless problems you will not be able to control:
Airport radar
Cell Phone towers in area
Bad balast in public/street lighting
Bad or failing utility capacitors (those big round drums on some telephone phone poles)
Other radio broadcasts
Each of these things, and others, cause radio issues for your computer's and router's 2 way conversation. And they may change.
Often just knowing these things can cause problems may allow you to re-arrange your desk, office or home to place the competing devices out of each others way. Don't have the cordless phone base station sitting on top of the router for example.
I've also noticed that diffrent brands of wireless routers do seem to do better in some places than others. This defies logic because the FCC caps the strength of the signal, but maybe some antenne are better at going through walls, and others at going through floors. I really don't know, but more than one bad wireless problem has gotten better by bridging another router or two onto the Verizon one. (just plug it into port 1, 2, 3, or 4 on the Verizon router & follow the instructions that came with it.)
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G-Pon,
You missed one - Microwave Ovens. Our Panasonic is situated almost inline (as the radiowaves fly) with my primary laptop location and whenever it's on, I get the infamous "IE cannot display this page" screen. As soon as the MW shuts off, SURF'S UP.
Now, when I'm in the same room ~5' from the router, when the microwave is BEHIND me, NO PROBLEMO!
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