Wireless network help

[mikekennyb]

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I have a wireless network that uses a Parkervision long range router, and it works for our main house, and our guest house, which is about 100 feet (the guest house) from the router. We have 3 computers on the wireless network in the house, and a desktop computer (using a wireless bridge) in the guest house, and an xbox using xbox live in the guest house as well.

The computers in the house are working very well, no problems whatsoever. However, in the guest house the internet is dragging very slow, even though the computer says the wireless network is transmitting/receiving at 11 MB per second. In addition, the Xbox cannot even connect to the wireless network (its using a wireless bridge).

My Xbox has never had problems connecting before, as far as I know there are no viruses or things I could have done with it that could have messed up its network settings. So that is strange.

If anyone has any ideas on how I could fix that, please let me know. Thanks

[G_Dem]

Hi there. When you say a wireless bridge do you mean the xbox is connected to the pc in the guest house via ethernet and that pc is connected wirelessly to the main house?

It might be best to try and work out why the internet is running slow in the guest house first as this may be the problem. First thing to do is to run virus checks and spyware checks on the pc. Once you have done this open up a command prompt (Start - Run - Type CMD and click OK)
type: ipconfig (to find out your router ip which is under default gateway)

Then ping your router by typing:
ping 192.168.1.1 -t (replace 192.168.1.1 with your router ip)

Watch this over 5 mins or so while surfing the net and check for very high ping times and "request timed out".

[mikekennyb]

You know what, oddly enough after a week it fixed itself. But thanks for the reply anyway. I ran ad-aware and trend micro anti-virus on the computer earlier, and it didn't really help. The wireless receiver for the xbox actually wasn't a bridge (don't know my networking terminology well enough) but more of a like wireless receiver that is external to the xbox. Thanks again for the reply though.