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Desktop wireless slower than notebook wireless
Raslin
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This problem has been perplexing me for a while now, and frankly makes me want to break things.
So, the core of the problem is, I decided to get a wireless card for my desktop, so I could move it into my bedroom(with my router in the living room on the other side of the house). I realized I would take a hit in connection, but seeing as I get a good connection with my laptop(browsing, streaming video fine. Gaming a little slow, sometimes), I figured I would be ok.
So, I got some fairly cheap wireless G card for christmas. It was horrible, would barely connect ever, etc. So, I decided it was because it was a cheap, crappy card, so I bought a new one. Got a new belkin Pre-N card from Woot, which boasted better connection over G networks(router is G). It came, I installed it, and it worked really well for the first week or so, but then went back to bad speeds. Better than the old card, but pretty much impossible to game on, and it takes about 5x longer to stream a video than to watch it.
I just don't get it. This is a shitty laptop. Bought it in 2006 for $650, while I built my desktop in 2007 for $650. The wireless card was like $50 or something for the desktop(not included in the $650). There's no way, in my mind anyways, that the laptop has a better card, and it sure as hell doesn't have better specs. They both use XP professional.
TL;DR, older laptop outperforms newer desktop on wireless connection by a large margin. Desktop has better card, same OS, both in same location. Newest firmware on the desktop card. Why?
So, the core of the problem is, I decided to get a wireless card for my desktop, so I could move it into my bedroom(with my router in the living room on the other side of the house). I realized I would take a hit in connection, but seeing as I get a good connection with my laptop(browsing, streaming video fine. Gaming a little slow, sometimes), I figured I would be ok.
So, I got some fairly cheap wireless G card for christmas. It was horrible, would barely connect ever, etc. So, I decided it was because it was a cheap, crappy card, so I bought a new one. Got a new belkin Pre-N card from Woot, which boasted better connection over G networks(router is G). It came, I installed it, and it worked really well for the first week or so, but then went back to bad speeds. Better than the old card, but pretty much impossible to game on, and it takes about 5x longer to stream a video than to watch it.
I just don't get it. This is a shitty laptop. Bought it in 2006 for $650, while I built my desktop in 2007 for $650. The wireless card was like $50 or something for the desktop(not included in the $650). There's no way, in my mind anyways, that the laptop has a better card, and it sure as hell doesn't have better specs. They both use XP professional.
TL;DR, older laptop outperforms newer desktop on wireless connection by a large margin. Desktop has better card, same OS, both in same location. Newest firmware on the desktop card. Why?
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It doesn't have a physical attenna, but the card stick out of the back of the PC
Wouldn't it be the same for the laptop though?
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Second question: My connection gets disconnected if I try to log on to wow. Every time, and doesn't disconnect otherwise. My brother is playing on the same connection(different accounts though). Would that be doing it?
Edit: Tons of people have this problem, apparently. Blizzard, let me play your game.
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If your notebook has built-in Wifi, it's probably got a much bigger/better antenna. I know on my girlfriend's MacBook the Wifi antenna is gigantic, it actually runs around the outside of the screen housing. The large size and surface area of the antenna leads directly to improved reception. If you can't get a higher gain antenna for your desktop, or move the desktop antenna closer to the access point / away from sources of RF interference, then you will probably need to move the AP closer to the desktop.