In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Connected wired or wireless to the router?
How secure is the wireless on the router?
Are you running any scheduled jobs?

Speed test based on wired PC
Yes, wireless secure as I can make it i.e. MAC address filtering (and AFAIK I have locked out unauthorised connections) & WPA passphrase consisting of letters (both uppper & lower case) and numbers none of which are meaningful words.

No scheduled jobs

Do please explain why you asked and why that could give the oddity of the measured speeds???

Edit ~ just looked and 1hr 26 imns ago there router was rest by the exchange and now sync'ed at 3104 margin 6.5db!!!! TB test here

Edited by deleted (Tue 25-Oct-11 22:14:52)

Do please explain why you asked and why that could give the oddity of the measured speeds???

Just normal "noise" can make a huge difference to wireless links, also interference from other routers in your area using overlapping channels. InSSIDer is a superb tool for checking and fixing overlaps.

Securing the wireless obviously necessary, but yours looks fine. If it had been open or WEP it could have been someone watching a regular TV program online.

Any scheduled jobs by yourself, particularly local or remote backups, could clobber the throughput on the router.

Another thought, are there any other users on your own system? If so, what are they doing when you are doing speed tests?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Do please explain why you asked and why that could give the oddity of the measured speeds???

Just normal "noise" can make a huge difference to wireless links, also interference from other routers in your area using overlapping channels. InSSIDer is a superb tool for checking and fixing overlaps.

Securing the wireless obviously necessary, but yours looks fine. If it had been open or WEP it could have been someone watching a regular TV program online.

Any scheduled jobs by yourself, particularly local or remote backups, could clobber the throughput on the router.

Another thought, are there any other users on your own system? If so, what are they doing when you are doing speed tests?

Not thought of overlapping channels as at the time of the slowdown no one was using the wireless access of the router. Likewise at time of speed test no other users accessing.

Just remembered there is a scheduled 'job' ~ my AV program does regular updates. It was set for every 60mins (default setting) I have now chnaged that to single daily update. Though in regard as to whether that is/was the hog taking the speed at the time of tests I am fairly sure it had completed its task???

re inSSIDer

Having looked at the fora it seems to use inSSIDer it should be installed on a laptop or desktop connecting by wireless to the router. Is this correct?

My laptop is a company one and it would not be etiquette to use such software on it

Hmmmm! unless there was a non-installer version???

InSSIDer needs to be installed on a PC having a wireless adapter, but it does not need to be connecting to anything. It just needs the adapter to sense out neighbouring wireless networks.

I see no harm in installing it on a works PC, but if you feel you can't do that you could buy a USB wireless adapter like the Netgear WG111 for the desktop.

In reply to a post by Routefinder:

re inSSIDer

Having looked at the fora it seems to use inSSIDer it should be installed on a laptop or desktop connecting by wireless to the router. Is this correct?

My laptop is a company one and it would not be etiquette to use such software on it

Hmmmm! unless there was a non-installer version???

If you aren't connecting anything wirelessly to the router InSSIDer is not needed.

If you are connecting anything to the router wirelessly then it is a useful tool to improve the performance of your wireless network. It lets you see what other wireless networks are around you and avoid clashes with them. Those clashes are the local wireless equivalent of crosstalk /congestion on the main internet connection between the router and the ISP.

If you click the Download button on the link, it offers the usual Run or Save options. Is that what you meant by a non-installer version?

You can install InSSIDer on any computer on your network that has wireless capability, even if that computer is wired to the router. It just detects the wireless routers operating within range. It doesn't need to be on the work laptop to do that, but gives you the information you need to select the optimum channel on your router. Your laptop will automatically detect your router's channel - that is what it does now.

The only snag is that the relative strengths of the signals from other sources can be wildly different in different rooms of the house, and it is the strength where the laptop is working wirelessly that matters, if that is a different room to where InSSIDer is running.

I don't see that "etiquette" is an issue with this. It doesn't look at traffic, just signal strength from wireless routers and Wireless Access Points. It doesn't detect other wireless computers/laptops. Would your company IT department really object to you installing it on your laptop? Maybe they should be using themselves! How big is the company/office?

Hmm, company etiquette.

For the company I work for it is a disciplinary offence to install software on a work device. This is primarily because people install all sorts of rubbish, both licensed and unlicensed, and this can cause numerous support issues (especially with some network software where potentially it could cause issues with network drivers). This can be a huge cost to a large organisation.

And the OP may not even be able to install on a work machine as any sensible company would run users without admin access - and without admin access most software will fail to install.

Hi Routefinder,

Sorry I'm so late coming in to this thread. Just checked profiles on ours and BTs side and they're matching at 2500 at the moment, there's no instances of it being below that though it has been up to 3000. Likewise on the connection logs there's no disconnections.

I can confirm though that there's been no regrading to ADSL2 - it's still a 20CN line.

I suspect the best thing to do would be to keep an eye on it and make sure that none of the things mentioned above are causing any slowdowns, I suspect it'll settle soon if it hasn't already.

I agree. However, in the context of suggesting maybe the company should investigate the product for its own setup, (hence also the question about the company size), it was my oblique way of suggesting he requests permission.

Note I also pointed out it doesn't need to be installed on the laptop, though that would be best for the reason given.

Bob,

Can inSSIDer be run from a usb pen drive (never used it myself) perhaps that would count as not actually installing it on a works machine?