My wireless network slowed down

[blackguyza]

I have been using Realtek 8185 Extensible 802.11b/g Wireless Device. Previously my effective speed was in the range of 1MB/second, which I believed was fine considering that an effective speed for 802.11b is 11Mbps. Since I have upgraded to Windows 7 I am now getting an effective speed of about 250KB/second.

Does 802.11b/g not mean that the device is able to work with either B or G? My router is currently configured to ONLY G. I will be changing to ONLY B and will reply here if there is any change of speed.

 

[blackguyza]

With my router set to ONLY B, I got a slower speed of 40 KB/second and less. It's now set to 11bg mixed and I am getting 380 KB/seconds.

 

[koeksGHT]

A new router is not that much?

 

[blackguyza]

@koeksGHT, I thought my router was new my broer.

 

[srothman]

So the ONLY thing that changed was the OS upgrade?

 

[blackguyza]

Yes it was.