shniper

there is no adjustable antenna on the gateway (router/modem combo). it must be built in.

No, No, No.... I have to play with the antenna on my Wireless adapter. That is my router/modem though. It doesn't even have an antenna on it and works AWESOME.

Ok. So I'm pretty sure I've identified the problem. It's my wireless card. I started playing with the antenna and it's very sensitive. My download speeds vary GREATLY depending on which way my antenna is turned. I can get it down to as low as 1.5 mbps and I've managed to get it up to around 11 now, so until I get myself a better one, I'm fine with 11. I had no idea that the antenna had that much effect on speeds... Thanks for your help mudman!

I can't seem to find any such setting in my BIOS. I am using an AirLink 101 802.11G Wireless PCI Adapter and a Siemens SE567 Gateway.

I'm not dealing with any CAT5. Phone Jack to Gateway, and Gateway is connected wirelessly to everything in the house.

Thanks alot for the help! I've never even heard of, or seen this half duplex mode in the BIOS. I will definitely check this out tomorrow and let you know how I make out.

I have a wireless gateway, and no, it isn't set to top out at 2mb since both computers are connected wirelessly. Here are my results for the desktop. And here are results for the laptop.

I have a 15MB ADSL connection, and with my laptop connected wirelessly, I get 13.5 steady on [this.site.has.been.blocked.for.spamming]. Well, I just finished installing a new motherboard, wireless card, and RAM into my desktop and I can only pull around 2MB on [this.site.has.been.blocked.for.spamming] I've upgraded the drivers for my wireless card and wireless LAN adapter as per my ISP's advice, and I don't know what else to do!! Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction, since I also threw in a couple new TB HDDs into this thing and I have some downloadin' to do! Sorry if I should've posted this in the Help section. It seemed like a toss up between the two. Thx! I should also add that I get the same ping with both systems. Around 19ms...