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Are you sure it is connecting at 802.11g speeds? Sounds like the AP is an 802.11b one?


The router broadcasts b & g. I've set it to g only and I still get the same issues.

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I assume the laptop you are using has a wired networking socket as well (every laptop has one, right?). To narrow it down properly you should try that and see whether it is still slow.


Unfortunately I have no idea what this means.

So far, I've tried every channel from 1 - 11 and I get the same issue. I've also tried adjusting the MTU from 1500 to 1400, 1436 and 1492, same issue.

I tried these things after contacting the support line for the card. They claim that it is probably the router but I highly doubt this. The other laptop connects just fine AND when I connect the slower laptop with ethernet I get my full speed. Anyhow, the guy said it can only either be the Beacon Interval setting or the MTU setting. Well I couldnt find any setting having to do with Beacon Intervals so I tried adjusting channels and MTU settings. Nothing.

When I contacted the netgear router support, I told him the whole story and he told me to ping yahoo and I did and got some sort of response. Then he told me to run the following command:

ping www.yahoo.com -l 1500 -t

I have no idea what this command does but when I did this, it sort of hung and the support guy said that for some reason my laptop was not receiving everything my router was sending out. Unfortuantely I didn't have the alternate laptop available at the time to run the same command.

I swear to God I get the weirdest computer issues.