Does hardwired internet(ethernet) have a noticeable speed difference than wireless?

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a7xnck

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i recently move dmy computer across the room and mhy modem's across the room so i decided to use my router.. the internet is very slow especaily farmville(facebook, not sure if anyone's familiar) but when i click each indivudual plot of land it REALLY lags.. ill click and it wont recognize i click till a good half second later..

i have road runner with powerboost (10-13megabits i think) if that makes any difference. and my router and adapter are both about 10 years old
 
Wireless is most generally slower then being hardwired into the router. If your hardware is 10 years old, try updating the drivers for it. If not, you may need new hardware.
 
I'd say using ethernet is better in two ways: speed and latency, depending on the length of your ethernet cable.

It is probably worth getting a new router and adapter now.

Just out of curiosity, what are the specs of your computer? that can also have an impact on speed, depending on how old it is.
 
computer's only a few months old. no power house tho.. 2.1ghz amd dual core, 3gb ram, 32 bit vista.. its also emachines, so its cheap overall
 
Check to see your browser is up to date.
Check to see whatever Farmville uses for software flash/java is up to date.

Are you running anything else while you are on the Internet?
IM software, other browser tabs with content running or other software running like Word as an example?
 
You can actualy get good wireless setups these days that are very fast.

I have a budget Netgear router,that i use for my Laptop and its quite nippy...i done a speedtest on the laptop using wireless from downstairs of our house and out of my 20mb broadband speeds i got something like 17-18mb speeds.

So not bad at all realy.
 
a7xnck said:
i recently move dmy computer across the room and mhy modem's across the room so i decided to use my router.. the internet is very slow especaily farmville(facebook, not sure if anyone's familiar) but when i click each indivudual plot of land it REALLY lags.. ill click and it wont recognize i click till a good half second later..

i have road runner with powerboost (10-13megabits i think) if that makes any difference. and my router and adapter are both about 10 years old
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At that age it sounds like perhaps it is 802.11b,which is only 11mbps. Plus consumer grade routers of that time period were not able to move a whole lot of data, many could only route a few mb/s of data.
 
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