Hello all,
I've built myself a pretty sweet Steambox, but the fly in my ointment is the extremely slow download speeds I'm experiencing on that particular computer. Due to the layout of my house, I have to rely on wireless networking for basically all the computers in my house. Ever other computer in the house has pretty stellar networking performance. I can download at 1-2Mb/s on a good day.
Unfortunately, the same is not true for my Steambox. The download speeds I'm seeing on that computer are about 1/4 that which I'm seeing on other computers in the house. It's really enraging. Downloading a game from Steam can take 2-3 days in some cases.
I've actually been through a few different wireless network adapters (both PCIE and USB) and have experienced essentially the same problem with all of them. I have this box set up with a static IP, so I know its not an address collision issue. My wireless router logs don't seem to indicate that there's any problem.
The only thing I can possibly imagine the problem could be is that the computer is located in the corner of a room one floor down from the wireless router. On one wall, there is baseboard heating; not sure if that could be disrupting the signal. The wireless antennae on the card are quite close to the ground (due to the location of the PCIE slot on my MB) and there is some cable spaghetti going on in the general area.
Do you think the signal could really be my issue? Do they make antennae extenders so that maybe I could have the antennas on top of my box (or maybe even higher up)?
Thanks in advance!
I've built myself a pretty sweet Steambox, but the fly in my ointment is the extremely slow download speeds I'm experiencing on that particular computer. Due to the layout of my house, I have to rely on wireless networking for basically all the computers in my house. Ever other computer in the house has pretty stellar networking performance. I can download at 1-2Mb/s on a good day.
Unfortunately, the same is not true for my Steambox. The download speeds I'm seeing on that computer are about 1/4 that which I'm seeing on other computers in the house. It's really enraging. Downloading a game from Steam can take 2-3 days in some cases.
I've actually been through a few different wireless network adapters (both PCIE and USB) and have experienced essentially the same problem with all of them. I have this box set up with a static IP, so I know its not an address collision issue. My wireless router logs don't seem to indicate that there's any problem.
The only thing I can possibly imagine the problem could be is that the computer is located in the corner of a room one floor down from the wireless router. On one wall, there is baseboard heating; not sure if that could be disrupting the signal. The wireless antennae on the card are quite close to the ground (due to the location of the PCIE slot on my MB) and there is some cable spaghetti going on in the general area.
Do you think the signal could really be my issue? Do they make antennae extenders so that maybe I could have the antennas on top of my box (or maybe even higher up)?
Thanks in advance!
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