Ridiculously Slow WiFi

I picked up a Aspire One 150 (XP, 120G HD, 1 Gig) yesterday, and I absolutely love it... except...

The WiFi is PAINFULLY slow. Sitting next to my Dell laptop showing an excellent connection, my lil' Aspire One shows weak connection, and doing some testing wired and wireless shows:

Wired:
20230.68 kbps - down, wired
975.16 kbps - up, wired

Wireless:
120.11 kbps - down
31.71 kbps - up

Wired:
Pinging www.espn.com [199.181.132.250] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=239
Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=239
Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=239
Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=239

Wireless:
Pinging www.espn.com [199.181.132.250] with 32 bytes of data:

My drivers are all up to date. Anyone else having this problem? I hope it can be resolved, because slow wifi is a deal-killer.

Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=296ms TTL=239
Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=1855ms TTL=239
Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=239
Reply from 199.181.132.250: bytes=32 time=225ms TTL=239

 

Try go into your router and adjust your beacon interval to a lower number.. eg. 20-25 range. THat should increase the network throughtput a bit. BTW 1000+ms ping time is rediculous.

 

So this is weird... when the AspireOne is plugged in, it hums along quickly as can be. When I unplug it, I get time-warped to the land before high speed internet. The problem only occurs when unplugged.

 

I figured it out, I went to Control Panel->System Devices->Networking->Atheros...->Advanced, then choose Power Save Mode and choose normal. I guess when unplugged it lowers the power to the radio and kills the speed. I don't understand how there's not a lot of posts on this already, but I hope this helps others.

-Dom

 

Awesome! I was just about to throw my machine into the wood chipper because of this issue. THanks! :mrgreen:

 

Fix did help Thank you

 

I just tried this, it seems to work well...at least until i can upgrade to wireless n!

 

i posted about a similar problem (http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2489) but hadnt read this thread!

Thats how i fixed it too but in my case i had to switch Power Save Mode to Off to be able to use it in a different room that the router.

 

Same here, setting power save to "normal" only helped marginally if at all, setting it to "off" gives me full speed. I'm not noticing any obvious decrease in battery life.

 

Use TCPOptimiser.
Before: 300Ko/sec
After: 1500Ko/sec

 

Gotta thank you guys for the tips

I did a test on speedtest.net and was getting like 658kb/s down and when I switched off powersave, it went to 5xxxkb/s

 

Ahhh thank you for this. I couldn't figure out why the internet was so slow and how playing mp3's off of my network would always skip on my AAO. Now everything works great!

 

This thread needs to be stickied. Turning off powersave decreased my latency by so much, it's not even funny.