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Orange Livebox connection speed Hi. I searched the site for 'livebox' (blimey better be careful how i type that) but no results. Livebox is a wireless router supplied by my isp here in the UK, orange. When I connect using my PC which uses a usb receiver i'm told that the connection speed is 11Mpps. When i use my laptop the speed is 54 mbps. So, i guess that this is not my connection speed to the interweb but to the router. Is that right? Also, does anyone know please what speed the livebox router runs at? My previous (non wireless) connection was with a speedtouch usb modem runnig at 8mbps. I've a feeling that performance has actually degraded since going wireless Is that possible? Many thanks for any insight you may be able to give newbie. cheers! Started By Dan Zawobble on May 9, 2007 at 1:33:39 PM

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bod1467 on May 9, 2007 at 2:21:17 PM (# 1) This message has been edited. The Livebox is an 802.11g wifi access point plus router plus ADSL modem. 802.11g means 54 mbps (theoretical max). Maybe your USB dongle is only 802.11b specification? ( = 11 mbps) PS - you do lose a bit of throughput speed with wireless. I have 8 mbps modem connection with my Netgear DG834G router. With ethernet connection I get 6+ mbps ... through wifi I get 4+ mbps. Dan Zawobble on May 10, 2007 at 1:34:07 AM (# 2) Thanks, thats very informative. I think I'll look into putting an ethernet card into my pc as long as its not too expensive and wire it up as its right next to the livebox anyway. cheers. bod1467 on May 10, 2007 at 2:42:49 AM (# 3) A PCI NIC you can get for less than £10. For example ... bod1467 on May 12, 2007 at 9:23:56 AM (# 4) BTW - I found out that my RWIN value was way too small and that was what was limiting my download speed. I set it to the max recommended (search for DrTCP) and now I get no throttling though wifi. :-D Dan Zawobble on May 16, 2007 at 1:46:16 AM (# 5) cheers for the advice re. the card. There's certainly plenty of choice available... Thanks also for the advice re. DrTCP, I'll check it out and pay attention to the RWIN value. WhAt made you think the value this parameter was set to was too small? Does the software suggest settings too (I can't check it out at the moment as I'm at work) ? bod1467 on May 16, 2007 at 9:04:15 AM (# 6) What made me think was that I partitioned my disk and installed Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 (linux distro) and did a speedtest. I got no throttling whatsoever, yet I has exactly the same hardware! :-D A test via a website linked from DrTCP site indicated my RWIN value was way low. Changing it gave me back the 2 mbps I was missing. :-D

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