sketchy network performance - only on desktop

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kcducttaper

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My desktop has problems getting reliably decent speeds (or sometimes any speed at all) out of my network. I've signed up for up to 22MB/s, which is running through a high-speed modem, and a Netgear N router. My 7 year old a/b/g laptop can typically pull around 10-18MB/s on speedtest.net, but my desktop floats around, and often drops below 1MB/s. My laptop also has 2 more bars, and shows 2-3 times the available networks of my desktop when they're sitting right next to each other. When I have problems with the connection, sometimes the computer will glitch a bit (everything will freeze up for a split second). I pulled the card out and messed around for a while, and it didn't glitch or do anything abnormal, but when I stick the card in, it starts glitching again. I did a deep scan for viruses/spyware, defraged, cleaned up the registry, reinstalled the driver, and nothing helped. I figured the card itself was starting to crap out on me, so I bought a new card to stick in there - same thing. I'm in an apartment building, so there are several networks (my laptop shows 30 while my desktop shows 7). I've tried manually setting my channel to various channels, but none of them really seem to work well. Channel 11 seems to work about the best, but if the network is getting too saturated, I would think that my laptop would have an equally difficult time connecting as well. Anyways, this has me going. :confused::angry: If anyone has some ideas, please share them.
 
Reset router and or modem should always be your first step in things like this. Run CCleaner (might not help, but it also could).

Try downloading the most recent drivers for your network card, save them to the desktop. Uninstall all the network drivers you have, then reboot and then install the latest drivers from the desktop. Obviously download the latest before you uninstall the old ones.
 
I already covered all of that. I've also switched to a different PCI slot with no dice. I don't really want to run CCleaner if I can avoid it, but perhaps it's necessary. CCleaner mostly takes out all the browser stuff and doesn't do to much with the actual wireless settings, but I guess it's worth a shot.
 
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