Terra Vye

Well I've just gotten high speed internet and things have gone pretty smooth other than the cable company having to come out and tweak/remove a "high pass" as they called it at the telephone pole. I have a cable modem/wireless access point, Motorola SBG900. We have one computer, the furthest away from the cable modem that can not get a stable connection. It is using a Netgear 802.11g PCI card, model WG311.

http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/sbg900/

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WG311.php

It can detect the network and connect but the signal is so low the connection icon in the bottom right of the screen stays with a red x but I can still surf. It will also lose the signal than get it back, this happens often. However I can get a laptop in there with wireless and it gets a low 11Mbps signal and is stable. The desktop is against the wall shared with the bathroom on the other side, which I think is the problem. Will the piping mess up the signal?

My point being I'm looking into a wireless antenna, so far I have found these two but the reviews are hit and miss. Has anyone found a good solution for this? Moving the computer isn't something that we want to do.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000ABPKG/sr=8-1/qid=1142040413/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5515606-6780700?%5Fencoding=UTF8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006SCIX/sr=8-7/qid=1142040413/ref=pd_bbs_7/104-5515606-6780700?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Thanks.

You know on the Comcast site they seem to be pushing 6Mbps but in the fine print it sometimes mentions 4Mbps. Maybe they need to update things.

I have seen the light...

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 6115 Kbps about 6.1 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)

Download Speed is:: 746 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (main)

Test Time:: 2006/03/08 - 10:32pm

Bottom Line:: 109X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.37 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 26.63 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-3BXEN9JOV

Could be better but I'll never forget upstream on Juno.

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 375 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 46 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net  (main)

Test Time:: 2006/03/08 - 10:34pm

Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 22.26 sec

Diagnosis: Looks Great : 2.18 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-C69VWE42R

Nice community around here.