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Replies: 14 — Last Post Jan. 3 12:58pm by Dylan6405
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My internet connection sucks. I have lynksys. It always says it's connected but then it acts like it's not. I constantly have to keep checking it. It just won' stay connected. The router is fine, so I don't know. Anyone have any software recommendations that could help? Anything downloadable?

This has been happening for a while so the restart stuff isn't the case.

Post edited at 10:37 pm on Dec. 31, 2008 by Moonscar

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do you have xp or vista?

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Could be the location. You have to be pretty much shooting a signal out your ass for it to work in certain locations.

I'm pulling less than 200 kbs on a 5 meg connection.

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belkin is amazing.

i have never had trouble.

and i can reach it down the road..just make sure its at least a "g" router instead of like a "d"

because they wont reach as far.

their about $50 but worth it.

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my grandma runs off of linkys and its slow as piss

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Quote: from Skandybar at 10:36 pm on Dec. 31, 2008
do you have xp or vista?

Vista

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There's an unconnected Linksys rounter sitting next to me. It's a piece of crap, so I don't use it.
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So, you have a slow connection and you blame the hardware?  Are you sure your ISP is not being a POS?

Last week when I was back at parents house and the 6.0mbps comcast connection was slow, with Motorola modem and Linksys 54mbps router.  Was not the hardware's fault it was the ISP being dumb as hell.  Modem was sending signal in attempt to receive signal, Comcast's ISP servers were not sending data back.

You say the router is fine, but complain about your Linksys?  What model of modem and router do you have?  And what ISP?

Try running a wired connection for awhile, and if it acts up it is most likely the ISP.  

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I don't even know how to set up a wire connection lol

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Quote: from Moonscar at 6:59 pm on Jan. 2, 2009
I don't even know how to set up a wire connection lol

Get a Cat5, Cat5e (standard these days), or Cat6 cable and plug one end into router and one end into computer.  

If you are across the house from the router it can get messy.  At my apartment we have 3 computer wired up, 2 upstairs, and the router is on top of the fridge downstairs.  And of course we are not allowed to drill holes.

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Your router is not fine. Try restoring it to factory defaults in case some settings got fucked up. You can find out how to do that on the manufacturers website.

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