Two on te same channel, especially if they are close and heavily used is NOT good - it can force the actual transfer rate well down to 5 of 10%

If you can see 1, 6, 1, 11 and nothing else you need to work out a channel sharing plan - as I have with my neighbours.

5 is the absolute best spacing but 4 can work quite well - so go for 1, 5, 9, 13 and push the two most heavily used out onto 1 and 13.

Only one of them! I put a 20 instead of 10 - but now changed.

In reply to a post by MHC:

but now changed.

Ditto my post

Agreed in principle, but in the OP's case the one he is using that gives the trouble is on Ch 6, well clear. Wierd.

I wonder if the wireless speed is really changing much, though if he is losing connection I suppose it must be. As the neighbour is on Orange, it may not be surprising that throughput has gone poor, as it could have been moved off LLU to BT Wholesale white label.

Well what I do notice is often when I might only get about 6 meg on desktop I would get 16 on laptop.

However when I can barely load web pages thats the same llow speed on both.

Have been discussing an antenna earlier today - an electronically steered phased array for both Tx and Rx. Input power of over +16dbW (+46dBm) with 6dB of gain and designed to work well down at a receive level of around -150dBm ... It is not the antenna that deals with the received signal - but is has to minimise losses and distortion.

A guess - the desktop is Windows XP, the laptop is Vista or Win7?

Both are running Win 7 64 bit

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I just tested with my laptop and was getting 10-12 meg but still slow on desktop.

I then shoved all the wires next to pc under my chair and the speed increased.

Could loads of usb cables and such surrounding router cause interferance as crazy as that seems?