10 tips for improving your wireless network

If Windows ever notifies you about a weak signal, it probably means your connection isn't as fast or as reliable as it could be. Worse, you might lose your connection entirely in some parts of your home. If you're looking to improve the signal for your wireless network, try some of these tips for extending your wireless range and improving your wireless network performance.

1.Position your wireless router (or wireless access point) in a central location.
When possible, place your wireless router in a central location in your home. If your wireless router is against an outside wall of your home, the signal will be weak on the other side of your home. Don't worry if you can't move your wireless router, because there are many other ways to improve your connection.

2.Move the router off the floor and away from walls and metal objects (such as metal file cabinets).
Metal, walls, and floors will interfere with your router's wireless signals. The closer your router is to these obstructions, the more severe the interference, and the weaker your connection will be.

3.Replace your router's antenna.
The antennas supplied with your router are designed to be omni-directional, meaning they broadcast in all directions around the router. If your router is near an outside wall, half of the wireless signals will be sent outside your home, and much of your router's power will be wasted. Most routers don't allow you to increase the power output, but you can make better use of the power. Upgrade to a hi-gain antenna that focuses the wireless signals only one direction. You can aim the signal in the direction you need it most.

4.Replace your computer's wireless network adapter.
Wireless network signals must be sent both to and from your computer. Sometimes, your router can broadcast strongly enough to reach your computer, but your computer can't send signals back to your router. To improve this, replace your laptop's PC card-based wireless network adapter with a USB network adapter that uses an external antenna. In particular, consider the Hawking Hi-Gain Wireless USB network adapter, which adds an external, hi-gain antenna to your computer and can significantly improve your range.
Laptops with built-in wireless typically have excellent antennas and don't need to have their network adapters upgraded.

5.Add a wireless repeater.
Wireless repeaters extend your wireless network range without requiring you to add any wiring. Just place the wireless repeater halfway between your wireless access point and your computer, and you'll get an instant boost to your wireless signal strength. Check out the wireless repeaters from ViewSonic, D-Link, Linksys, and Buffalo Technology.

6.Change your wireless channel.
Wireless routers can broadcast on several different channels, similar to the way radio stations use different channels. In the United States and Canada, these channels are 1, 6, and 11. Just like you'll sometimes hear interference on one radio station while another is perfectly clear, sometimes one wireless channel is clearer than others. Try changing your wireless router's channel through your router's configuration page to see if your signal strength improves. You don't need to change your computer's configuration, because it'll automatically detect the new channel.

7.Reduce wireless interference.
If you have cordless phones or other wireless electronics in your home, your computer might not be able to "hear" your router over the noise from the other wireless devices. To quiet the noise, avoid wireless electronics that use the 2.4GHz frequency. Instead, look for cordless phones that use the 5.8GHz or 900MHz frequencies.

8.Update your firmware or your network adapter driver.
Router manufacturers regularly make free improvements to their routers. Sometimes, these improvements increase performance. To get the latest firmware updates for your router, visit your router manufacturer's Web site.
Similarly, network adapter vendors occasionally update the software that Windows XP uses to communicate with your network adapter, known as the driver. These updates typically improve performance and reliability. To get the updates, visit Microsoft Update, and then under Select by Type click Hardware, Optional. Install any updates relating to your wireless network adapter. It wouldn't hurt to install any other updates while you're visiting Microsoft Update, too.
Note When you go to Microsoft Update, you have two options: the Express Install for critical and security updates and Custom Install for high priority and optional updates. You may find more driver updates when you use Custom Install.

9.Pick equipment from a single vendor.
While a Linksys router will work with a D-Link network adapter, you often get better performance if you pick a router and network adapter from the same vendor. Some vendors offer a performance boost of up to twice the performance when you choose their hardware: Linksys has the SpeedBooster technology, and D-Link has the 108G enhancement.

10.Upgrade 802.11b devices to 802.11g.
802.11b is the most common type of wireless network, but 802.11g is about five times faster. 802.11g is backward-compatible with 802.11b, so you can still use any 802.11b equipment that you have. If you're using 802.11b and you're unhappy with the performance, consider replacing your router and network adapters with 802.11g-compatible equipment. If you're buying new equipment, definitely choose 802.11g.

Wireless networks never reach the theoretical bandwidth limits. 802.11b networks typically get 2-5Mbps. 802.11g is usually in the 13-23Mbps range. Belkin's Pre-N equipment has been measured at 37-42Mbps.

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Make Downloads Faster In Bitcomet

Optimal Bitcomet Tweak...

This post is part of the Ultimate beginners guide for torrents article, please read the full guide.
There are many users who prefer BitComet over any other torrent client, it may not be as fast as others but it’s more reliable and will almost always finish it’s download with no problems.BitComet is not that complex in settings, compared to clients like azureus it has basic settings that can be optimized and improve your speed quite a bit with just little changes.

Lets start this guide, first off I will indicate that I am only worried improving your speed, if I don’t mention a settings that means you should leave it as default or change it as you see fit.Also in this tutorial we will need to know how much your download/upload speeds are to modify accordingly, please take a speed test at SpeedTest.net and also open up windows calculator from the accessories since we will be using it for some math.

Go to Options > Preferences. Now:
CONNECTION

General Settings:

» Global Max Download Rate: - No Limit (If your maxing out, only use 80% of your download speed. eg: 1400 x 0.8 = 1120 KB/s)

» Global Max Upload Rate: - This has to be set to 80% of your upload speed. (eg: 210 X 0.8 = 168 KB/s max upload rate.)
Task Schedule:

» Max Simultaneous Download Tasks: - This is the result of your Global Max Upload Rate / 8 (giving 8 KB/s of upload bandwidth for each task).So 168 / 8 = 21.

» Auto start new task if download rate less than: - No Limit
Listen Port:

»Listen Port: - from 49154 to 65534.
ADVANCED > CONNECTION

» Enable DHT network - CHECKED

» Enable NAT/Firewall Configuration ICS/ICF (XP or later only) - CHECKED

» Enable UPnP Port Mapping (XP or later only) - UNCHECKED

» Remove Port on NAT/Firewall (XP or later only) - CHECKED

» Server mode, support more connections but can’t set practise rate - UNCHECKED

» Protect against ARP cheating attack from LAN - CHECKED

» Max Connections per task - Auto

» Global Maximum connections - Auto

» Socket start interval (ms) - 200

» Max simultaneous half-open TCP connections - Auto

» Use NAT Traversal via UDP - Auto Detect

» Protocol Encryption (avoid BT protocol blocked) - Auto Detect

Hmmm, I’ve learned that all you have to do is turn on the long-time seeding option (I forget what option that’s under). I guess the idea is… if you’re set up to seed later, it will let you download faster now. Find it and try it.

You can still delete tasks from BitComet’s queue as soon as they’re finished. The program just needs to be set to automatically seed when the download is complete.
(This may not be the trick, but it seemed to be the change that speed things up for me.)

Have A Try....

TmNEt Streamyx IP

124.82.xx.xx - bad for gaming and so-so for surfing. BT is workable.
124.13.xx.xx - bad for everything
60.50.xx.xx - so so for everything
60.51.xx.xx - reasonable for online gaming and BT.
60.52.xx.xx - i will disconnect at this ip juz like 124.13
60.53.xx.xx - reasonable for all apps
60.54.xx.xx - good for online gaming. speedy. reasonable for the rest.
118.100.xx.xx - puke blood for BT
118.101.xx.xx - reasonable for all .

its difficult to obtain 118.101 i have to recon like 80 times before i get to hang on to it.
once i'm on it, i'm hanging on to it for as long as possible. lolz.

well now im getting 118.....superfast....

Increase connection limit for XP/SP1/SP2

Event ID 4226 Patcher (4226 fix)

What's this all about?After almost everybody knows the -EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

Unfortunately there exists no REG-key which could easily be set (would be so nice and easy, right? *smile*). The file TCPIP.SYS in the directory C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS and C:\WINDOWS\SERVICEPACKFILES\I386 has to be changed (system dependend eventually in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE, too).

Needed things:- Windows XP SP2 (from RC2 upwards) or Windows 2003 Server SP1 beta - patcher - a small amount of time

What's been done:To say it easy: the before 10 half-open connections are beeing increased to 50 (can be changed during runtime and with the parameter /L) and the CRC is been corrected. And that's it!

Comment:The method described here, should only be used by users, who know how to handle all the described. With the download of the here published program the user know, that changes are made on third party files. For damages in every kind I cannot be hold responsible for. Indeed, tests worked fine here. However, nothing is impossible.Info: When error occurs, the patcher can change the TCPIP.SYS back to the original!

Instruction: Just download the patcher and execute it. It will automatically find the windows directory and ask, if it should increase/decrease. For higher values, please check the help with parameter /?.After a successful patch, the new TCPIP.SYS will be automatically installed. After that, the computer should be restarted.

Remember modification at your own risk

Download patch at

http://www.lvllord.de/download.php?url=en/EvID4226Patch223d-en.zip

juz give at try,:P