Its just unfortunate I guess - that of all the places in the house to actually run some CAT 5 cable to it would be there. I cant really re-locate - since media centre = under the tv. I thought wireless would have been ok since it seems to be elsewhere in the house and the lappy does ok.
Theres no outside wall nearby - in a corner against the kitchen and next doors lounge.
Until I can test it with a length of CAT 5 then Im not sure yet if its a Vista thing or Vista/wireless card. Using the arial extension thing it is better and now sees speeds at around 2-4 Mb, but it does sometimes fluctuate to even less.
Tried all the usual stuff - moving router around, changing chans, searching for drivers. I'm not really moving much stuff to and from other PCs atm - but it obviously is something I'd like to do in the future.
CAT5 would have to go from this room up to the loft and then down between a cavity in the wall between mine and next door. Dunno which way you were thinking chris - otherwise down the stairs, hall, across/round the room to far corner.
btw pic - yeah I know need to sort the wires lol.. and the thing at the front sticking up front of the tv is the ariel extender for the wireless - thats the best position so if anyone touches it theyre dead.
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