Buffalo Networks Wireless Card problem

cambrosecambrose
edited July 2007 in Science & Tech
Okay, my little bro's comp has a buffalo 54g card installed, but all of a sudden, speeds on the card have bottomed out to about dialup speeds. The card is a WLI-PCI-G54SUS and I don't have really any more info. If I could get some hints, I'll try em and give you feedback. He's upset because he just got a newer GFX card and can't play wow with it because it is so slow now. Thanks for your help.

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  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Your little brothers computer? So I take it he's not the only one on this network?
    • Are other computers(connected wirelessly mind you) having a similar issue?
    • Are you POSITIVE he's connected to the correct network, he could be connecting to a neighbor's wireless.
    • Is Bittorrent running? Or any P2P type programs for that matter...
    • Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the wireless drivers for this card?
    Also, how are you determining the speed? Are you just opening a web browser and trying websites? A speed test? What kind of pings is he getting to yahoo.com for example?

    Not sure if you know how to do all this, but open up a command prompt and do the following: "tracert yahoo.com" and post back the results.... you might wanna edit out your IP. What this will do is tell us the pings it takes on each hop your connection takes to yahoo.com.
  • cambrosecambrose
    edited July 2007
    * Are other computers(connected wirelessly mind you) having a similar issue? NO
    * Are you POSITIVE he's connected to the correct network, he could be connecting to a neighbor's wireless. YES
    * Is Bittorrent running? Or any P2P type programs for that matter... NO
    * Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the wireless drivers for this card? YES, twice now

    I pinged google.com on my laptop and got and average ping of 74ms with zero loss. (Wireless) I tried the same on his laptop and got an average of 140ms with a 25% loss
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Have you tried power cycling the router and modem? What are the results for the tracert, it can help determine where the problem starts...
  • cambrosecambrose
    edited July 2007
    RWB wrote:
    Have you tried power cycling the router and modem? What are the results for the tracert, it can help determine where the problem starts...

    Cycling didn't do anything. Here is a tracert for his comp as well as mine.

    His:
    His Computer

    Mine:
    My Computer
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    OK so it's definitely occurring internally... those are some bad pings internally. It's probably the card dieing or something on the computer. What are the system resources looking like on the computer in question, CPU and Memory usage, even the number of running processes. I also noticed he has Limewire... is that running?
  • cambrosecambrose
    edited July 2007
    During time in question, limewire isn't running. During this time, he uses about 1% cpu and has 25 processes going on, none of which should be ruining anything.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    I'm thinking it's the card then... or some kind of funky interference. If you have a card you can test it out with temporarily, that would verify this.
  • cambrosecambrose
    edited July 2007
    Well, I tried it on my desktop and it didn't work on there either... ugh
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