How about this package, apparently I rate as Grade A+ !!
Now I’ve run the test I have to go find out why it’s not quicker … 
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Who’s that with… and what type of connection/service ?
It’s with MetroTek! [it does say on the test ] Ok, so I’m cheating a little, I’m running a desktop that’s sat on a VPS in the racks … having said that, now I’ve started it’s quite interesting, most speed checkers are throttled at 100Mbps for download. Notably however, some people have forgotten to throttle the upload, checkout “thinkbroadband” for example (and I think the Gadget show use their checker) …
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It’s with Metro-tek Ltd. I’m guessing business fibre optic, because NTL (before it was renamed Virgin Media) do business packages that have 500Mbps 
I dare to think how fast 500Mbps is, if 100Mbps is this fast just now…
Ok, well it’s actually 1G atm, unfortunately none of the speed test sites seem able to cope … best thus far is the BBC’s iPlayer test at 350M;
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HOLY MACROL! 346Mbps upload o.O
Seems to have made it worse. I also think the router is kinda dodgey as well. I’ve been reading review about my router/modem and it seems the signal quality/strength is very poor, and people are actually using a second router for better service. I’m thinkin’ about doing this myself. Perhaps it would solve a lot of problems. Also I’ve noticed that, when right next to the router the connection is pretty crap, yet when you walk a little away from it, it’s sky high, so there must be a lot of dropping out in some frequencies.
I already said that right next to the router isn’t necessarily the best location for wireless signal strength… for ANY router/card
You may need to play with the available options for the iwlagn driver to discover which works best for you… available options (parm) can be found by entering:
modinfo iwlagn
Or just get a USB wireless adapter
I’ll have a mess around see what’s “optimal”.
Oh btw, would you recommend using homeplugs? I was thinkin’ homeplugs would be easier and lot less hassle compared to going out, buying another "N’ wireless router and find like a 30 meter ethernet cable XD
YES… I guess you missed my opinion about Wireless Vs Powerline adapters in this posting:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/ubuntu/issues-with-pulse-audio-and-skype/msg64151/#msg64151
I guess I miss a lot of things then. This is enough confirmation for me to get homeplugs. Btw how do they work? I’ve only just recently came across them. (By recently I literally mean only 40-50mins ago).
Do you mea “technically” how do they work? … or how do you set them up ?
Setting them up is as easy as plugging an ethernet cable from the router into one, and plugging it into a wall socket… and plugging the other into another wall socket, and running an ethernet cable from it to your PC.
Effectively they just use your house electrics as the cable in between the two.
If you’re after the homplug alliance specs… no doubt they’ll be on here somewhere:
https://www.homeplug.org/home/
or maybe check your friend and mine, Wikipedia:
These may be what you want, as they have pass-through of the power sockets:
where these DON’T so they are the ONLY thing that can be plugged into the wall socket:
Pass-through’s look pretty awesome and a bargin too at only 40 quid! I think I’m gonna get these, because this wireless is doing my bloody head in, and until Virgin & Netgear decide to solve the problem, then I don’t want to use the wireless. It fluctuates far too much, and can be a right P.I.T.A. Now all I have to do is suck up to my mum and get her to hand me 40 quid XD hahaha.
Here’s a story you’ll have a laugh at, so earlier on I was going through the routers GUI and noticed the settings for the frequency band. I noticed it had two, 2.4GHz & 5GHz. So I thought, why’s it on 2.4? Obviously because the laptops in my house a fairly new, except from my one which is 2.5 years old. So I changed it, and thought great seems much faster now (on my laptop). I ran a speedtest and BOOM. Right up into the 90s of my 100Mbps connection whilst my mates using my laptop to connect to live from my Xbox playing GoW online. I thought nothing of it at the time, was happy as larry, as was my mate. 20 minutes later I hear… “BAAAAAALLLLLYYY!!! FIX THIS!!” oh dear… When your mother whales your name, you know your in sht. Anyway, she came stomping up the stairs and so we argued 
She said, "Bally I’m sick fed up of not being able to connect to this fing internet! I pay it and every other ct seems to be online apart from me." (please do excuse my mothers language.) So I said to her, well you wouldn’t have this f**kin’ problem if you had Linux on that laptop!!! I’m sick of Windows… She then continued on rambling saying, Linux isn’t “normal” and it’s far too complicated. I then countered her argument by saying, “NO! Linux is not complicated, it’s safer, faster & far more easer to use than stupid Windows!” I then began rambling like a kid saying “Normal” (point at my Linux box), “Broken” (pointing at the Win7 box). I did this for a number of seconds before she said, “Linux isn’t normal, I don’t know how to use it, and Windows is easier…”
I laughed in hatred of Windows, and also sarcastically. She said “FIX IT or else I’m cancelling it…” ek! So I took the laptop, and began roaming the settings of Windows. Ofcourse a smart person (like me…when i use it) would check to make sure the SSID is either broadcasting or not, so I checked that first. It was broadcasting so i scratched my head (totally forgetting about changing the frequency) and then thought, right perhaps it’s hidden. So I tried connecting to it via hidden connection settings. I then open up the laptop to my surprise that I couldn’t find the network card… (Acer Aspire 5738z, model: MS2264). I look around and find this small square-ish network look a like card just next to the harddrive. No manufacturer details, no model details nothing. just some random numbers which make no sense to me. I thought, na that can’t be the network card, and then I find 2 PCIe mini card slots (where a network card would go?). So I then said… what the hell? So I go google the specs for the network, and then I remember, what if it’s only single band? I remembered that my laptop has a dual-band network card, and my mate comes upto me and says, “Bally my laptop isn’t connecting wtf?”. Now here’s where you laugh. My laptop, a 2.5 year old Acer Aspire 6920 model: LF1, “has” a dual-band network card. My brother’s/mother’s laptop, a 1 year old Acer Aspire 5738z model: MS2264 doesn’t have a dual-band network card, but has Windows 7 64-bit version, just like my mates new laptop which he literally got 3 days ago which is an Acer Aspire 5742, model: PEW71 doesn’t have a dual-band network either. So after many minutes of being confused, I change the frequency back and “hey presto!” everything works again.
So what does this mean then? Acer are no longer supporting 5Ghz frequency band? My laptop is faster than both of those laptops put together, and I haven’t even upgraded it yet. It makes you wonder, are we actually moving forward or going backwards?
I’m sure I pointed out earlier in this topic that your router, whilst being dual-band, doesn’t support BOTH bands at the same time… you could replace the router with one that does… or replace the cards in the other PC’s.
Was the speed improvement on the PC you were having speed issues with ?
As for the newer PC’s not having dual-band adapters, it’s probably the manufacturers saving themselves a few pence :o as 5Ghz is still not that common (at least in the UK).
Yeah probably, or maybe MS has a deal with them? Who knows.
They’re was a drastic improvement when I changed band, I went from an average 10-20meg on 2.4GHz, to 97-99Meg on the 5GHz. As for the router, not sure I can change it since it’s a Fibre Optic Router/Modem combo, which doesn’t use ADSL. I’m still gonna go with the Homeplugs once I find me some pennies. I’ve got a few spare HDD’s, a DVD-RW drive and 6-card reader drive as well 
which I can sell XD
Take a look at this:
http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Wireless-N-Access-Bridge-WNHDE111/dp/B00126V3EI
Manual (user guide) here:
ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/WNHDE111_IG_18Jan08.pdf
Use it as a 5Ghz access point (AP mode), and have your router set to 2.4Ghz … that way you’d have both bands available.
That said, I still prefer cabled, so unless you NEED wireless, I’d go with the powerline adapters.
Nah, that’s not my thing. I’ll go with the home plugs, it’s easier and securer. Plus it keeps things out of sight if you get what I mean. Btw, I’m looking for a NAS approx 500Gb? but something cheap too, just to act as a home-storage unit so all the computers can connect including my Linux box.
Buffalo Linkstation Live 1TB
READ this topic for info on their capabilities:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/hardware-compatibility/network-access-external-hard-drive/
I’ve got the LS-CH500L (500GB version) which you cant get any more… well Dabs still have them:
But at the price difference, I’d go for the 1TB
More info:
http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/network-storage/linkstation/ls-chl-linkstation-live/
Cheers Mark!