I'm at wit's end on this. I have a Motorola Surfboard SBG6580. I know the wireless range sucks from other reviews, but I wanted the four ports. I have a Playstation hooked up to one port, a Gateway FX laptop hooked up to another, and an older wireless router (Netgear WGR614 v9) hooked to the 3rd. The Netgear tops out at about 19 mbps, but it feeds a Roku, a Kindle, and a Samsung Tab.
With the laptop hooked directly to the Surfboard via LAN cable, speedtest.net shows about 60mbps up and 12 down, 30 ms ping. However web pages take forever to load. When they finally do load, they load almost instantly, but I often have to hit refresh multiple times to get it to load. Right now I'm on wireless and speedtest shows 18 up and 11 down with a 37 ms ping (limited by the older Netgear router, I'm sure).
My wife complains her tablet is also inconsistent on the wireless, as does my son on his Kindle. However the Playstation always runs just fine.
I'm guessing packet loss, but have no idea where to start to address this issue. I turned the wireless off on the Surfboard thinking perhaps there was interference, but it hasn't affected it at all, and that wouldn't account for the problems with the laptop while hard wired.
With the laptop hooked directly to the Surfboard via LAN cable, speedtest.net shows about 60mbps up and 12 down, 30 ms ping. However web pages take forever to load. When they finally do load, they load almost instantly, but I often have to hit refresh multiple times to get it to load. Right now I'm on wireless and speedtest shows 18 up and 11 down with a 37 ms ping (limited by the older Netgear router, I'm sure).
My wife complains her tablet is also inconsistent on the wireless, as does my son on his Kindle. However the Playstation always runs just fine.
I'm guessing packet loss, but have no idea where to start to address this issue. I turned the wireless off on the Surfboard thinking perhaps there was interference, but it hasn't affected it at all, and that wouldn't account for the problems with the laptop while hard wired.