Bandwidth problems...

Hello everyone...

I've got a rather troublesome problem. I have all three computers in
my house networked through a D-Link DIR-625 wireless router. One is
hardwired to the router itself and presents no problems for me. The
other two are on a secure wireless network that I set up myself.
However, the two wireless computers almost always have a low or very
low connection and never reach download speeds over 16 KB/sec.

When I first set up the network I let D-Link run it, and ran into
problems with it just dropping the connection all together. So I set
it up so that XP controls all network activity, which assuaged the my
connectivity problems, but created others in its place. The two
computers are only about 50 feet from the router, and I figured with
the router being a RangeBooster, 50 feet is no big deal. But the
wireless computers still connect at low or very low, and now they
never reach speeds in excess of 16 KB/sec.

The computer that is hardwired into the router operates as it should.
We have no speed problems associated with it. Which leads me to
assume that the problem lies not in the hardware, but in the wireless
portion of the network, and how XP controls it. All three systems are
running XP SP2, and work individually when I hardwire them into the
router, but when I take them wireless the speed drops drastically.

Any thoughts?...
.

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