[Tfug] Wireless in windows

[Rich]

Could be the QoS packet scheduler. This little runt reserves at least  
10% of *your* bandwidth for (you guessed it) Quality of Service  
reporting.

Start -> Run
services.msc

Find "QoS" and disable it.

Hope that helps.
R.


On Aug 4, 2007, at 3:42 pm, Ben Slote wrote:

> Anyone know how to improve wireless speeds in Windows?
>
> Copy/paste from a forum post I made elsewhere:
>
> We just got set up with Cox (12mbit/1mbit) and we're having a  
> strange issue.
> We have our modem (a Motorola SB1501) going to our Linksys WRT54G  
> router,
> and we're all connecting to the network via wireless cards. My two  
> roommates
> are getting really lousy speeds, in the 2-3mbit range, while I'm  
> getting
> much better speeds in the 12-14mbit range. I'm running Linux, and  
> my two
> roommates are running Windows XP.
>
> I've also booted into Windows on my laptop and got the same lousy  
> speeds as
> my roommates (3-4mbit). I then booted right back into Linux and  
> tested with
> the same test server and consistently get over 13mbit. So I really  
> want to
> this is a Windows problem, and not anything related to hardware.
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