wifi connection

Any idea why my Dell laptop takes about 10 to 15 seconds to connect to my EE wifi.

Which EE router do you have?

EE don't supply your wifi. Your router, AP or extenders do.

Unless the OP means Home �mobile broadband�.

Or even means the WiFi from an EE router.

Knowing what router it is will tell us which of those is the case.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

EE don't supply your wifi. Your router, AP or extenders do.

And!

Seeing as you are being pedantic, at the level of detail you post there routers do not supply WiFi.

EE users have a habit of calling BB "WiFi"!

That may well be, though it is becoming quite common on these forums for newbies using any provider. As in �my broadband is running slow�, but their router stats are fine and they are on a reputable supplier. It is their wireless connection that is suspect.

I presume that fewer and fewer people every year have ever heard of Ethernet , and would need to look it up when reading this post. When out and about, broadband is WiFi. Or should that be the other way round?

My first post justified your question, in the light of the second reply to the OP, as knowing the router would tell you which service the OP is on.

My second post was unhappiness with a pedant laying down the law to the OP about hardware and being wrong .

As to the OP�s question, I have no idea what the answer is, as there isn't sufficient information.

I was trying to help the OP by explaining that an ISP doesn't supply wifi. The wifi module is built in to the router box so to a layperson the router does "supply" the wifi.

As the OP hasn't replied with the details of how they connect via wifi then they can't be that bothered.

EE describe it as a "router", so that was the most useful term to use.

I think I do know what goes where.

You were trying to explain to the poster at rather a detailed level. When doing that you need to get the detail right. XRaySpex asked the right question. I expect the answer to that will tell us what the OP means .

Even now, you use the term �router box�. That too may or may not include a modem and in domestic models usually an Ethernet switch.

My ISP-supplied router has only one wire going into it, and that is the power cable. It does have a single ethernet port, to which I occasionally connect a laptop. Normally my main laptop, this iPad and my phone connect wirelessly to the internet through it.

How does my ISP provide my broadband connection? How would you describe it?

My phone contains, amongst other things, both a router and a WAP. I expect yours does as well. I think I�ll start calling it a CD. After all, does play music, and doesn�t even need a hole in the middle for a spindle. Technology really has moved on. Or not. In the 20th century �wireless� was a noun.

I think we digress. Other than the first two paragraphs I�m just having a bit of fun in all that, whilst pointing out that what we call things often bears little relation to what they are or do. I hope you will take it that way, now I point it out.