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I have a PC that is using a dynex enhanced G wireless card. I have a wireless network with a Morotola Surfboard modem and am using comcast as my internet provider. I can connect my lap top to the wireless and get a ver y strong signal with speeds at 54 Mbps. I connect my PC and cannot get more than 2.0 Mbps. I have called Dynex(no response) and Motorla. Motorola suggested some changes and I made these changes and it still does not connect. My PC is 35 feet away from my modem. I can take the lap top into the same areas and connect at 54 Mbps. Is there something that I am missing? Does anyone know of a wireless card that is compatiable with the Motorola modem? Thanks for your help.
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The signal should be good around 25' away. You may be getting interference from a number of sources. The first one is the PC itself. The signal from the antenna to the modem should not be close to the PC and should not pass through it. The PC exudes electronic interference and has anti-interference stuff built into the case.
The second thing is interference from your house. This is stuff like Glass, Metal, and Electrical wires. Luckily most of this stuff is in the bottom 2 feet of a story so if you place the antenna atleast 3 feet from the ground it should be OK unless you have sheet metal or mirrors in the path of the signal.
The antenna for the wireless card to close to the PC and will not move. I do not guess this PC was meant to be connected wirelessly. My laptop gets a great signal sitting on top og my PC.
Did you try returning the card as faulty and getting a replacement? Sometimes components are actually bad out of the box. I use a wireless system and the antenna is touching the housing of my computer and has been chewed on by one of my cats, there is no problem for me.
You'll also find that a lot of laptops with built in wireless actually have a large antenna in the display housing which gives it a much better signal than the little antenna on the back of a desktop card.
There are external antenna replacements you can buy to attach to your wireless card to help get a better signal though. Only other thing you can do is just make sure the antenna are actually parallel to each other rather than pointing at each other, the signal comes out the sides of the antenna, above the tip of it is a dead zone.
I'm only getting 54MBPS on Vista Ultimate with a Netgear WPN311 network card. Every time I search for the 2.0 drivers, I can't find them and so I am stuck on 54MBPS but it seems fine to me
Your other option would be to use a wirelss bridge connected to your laptop via a cat5 cable. The antenna would be further away from your PC and would hopefully be removed from any interference.
I'd like to clarify the language here. Are you saying when you connect your PC via wireless, the wireless manager says your connection speed is 2.0mbps? Or that your download speed (as determined by god knows what website) is that fast?
If the former, then there's a problem. If the latter well...2mbps is a pretty common connection speed for most cable providers.
Now if its the wireless connection saying it's 2mbps...is your modem also a router? It's the route that makes a difference here, as that's what the device connects to. I'm jsut making sure, because I don't recall Motorola's modem/router combo units being called Surfboards, just their modem-only units.