Question by LARRY W: Where can I find to print out step by step instructions to speed up my home network? I have multiple devices.?
I have a wireless G Verizon DSL combination gateway/router and there’s 2 desktops, 2 laptops,wireless phones w/1 base unit,1 xbox 360,1 PS3, 1 Wii. And I am using a Linksys G network adapter at 1 desktop and a Linksys wireless G game adapter at the PS3. I never have been able to get any of the pc’s to share files or printers. My signal strength ranges from excellent to good. Need more? Please ask. Thank you.
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Answer by johntrottier
Please restate your question with a LOT more detail. We can’t tell you much when you give us nothing to work with.
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Sorry Larry, if you want step by step we need to know what multiple devices means. Printers? Laptops? Wireless? Wired? Desktops? Servers? Windows? Linux? Mac?
EDIT : Wow Larry, you got the set up!!! woo hooo!! I am going to assume you are able to get all of these devices online fine and you just want info on how to speed it up and possibly share files and printers with the laptops and desktops.
I see a lot of bandwidth draining devices here, lets say somoene is talking on the phone while playing the wii, and another person is playing an online computer(lan)game, another just surfing the net…. I see SLOW internet, possibly staticy voice on the phone and games freezing.
When using wireless it will automatically slow things down to begin with, and the phone requires a certian about of bandwidth no matter what. I had Vonage and hated it, got rid of it since it interfered to much, even when I put priority of bandwidth on internet….it still was a hog. If you can you may want to up the bandwdth and yes it will cost you more if they even allow it.
I have speakeasy and I run 6 local machines, 2 servers and one wii. I pay for 1.5/768 bandwidth and mine runs pretty close to it.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1284 kbps (160.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 656 kbps (82 KB/sec transfer rate)
I did that test while 3 people were online and both servers on. You may want to test your speed on a few different machines while you know high activity is happening and again when slow activity is happening, that is one way to rule out any slowness being the fault of the isp and it is indeed you running all your stuff simotaniously. Stay with the same site to test your speeds. I use http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
As far as printing and file sharing it should be easy. All your pc/lt are going to get an ip address from the network. You should be able to share specific folders on the hard drives, to do that you right click on the folder you want to share, chose share and follow the instructions. Then when you go to another machine you can go to either ‘my networks’ and see the machines or type the ip address of the machine you want to get a file from in the run box such as \192.168.2.10 and it should take you to that machine, it may ask for a password depending on how you set it up. If any of these machines are Vista—–throw all that out the window, you will not be able to share files that i know of on a small network.
Printers should be easy as well(unless you have vista) you should be able to right click on the properties of the printer on the machine the printer is actually attached to and assign it a network name and share it. Once you get there just follow the instructions they give you.
Good Luck! Hope I have helped some, i know more is on your shoulders but i hope this helped ya some… have a great weekend.