[Shop-talk] shop internet connection

[Thomas Coradeschi]

Here is the $64M question. What do you want the laptop to do, which it currently can’t?

The laptop specs call out 802.11b/g/n wireless. The data rates you note seem like they are in family with what you’d expect, at least to my eye. 

Alternatively, can you connect the laptop to the box in the shop via Ethernet?

Regards,

Tom Coradeschi
tjcora at icloud.com

> On Jan 2, 2025, at 1:42 PM, john niolon <jniolon at att.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get better internet connectivity in my detached garage/shop.  First tried hardwired cat-5 but it was right at the limit for distance and slow and intermittent.  Next went with power line adapters and while they were consistent in connection...speed was still slower than I wanted...
>  
> This Christmas my s-I-l gave me a Orbi mesh system and we installed it with no problem putting one satellite box IN the garage and the master box sitting on top of my fiber modem hard wired to the modem.
>  
> I have 300mb fiber from ATT and the speed is great (350-375 MB) to hardwired pc and around 140 mb on ipad in the house or in the garage. 
> I have an older laptop I use in the shop (Toshiba Satellite L875D-st210) which is my primary shop machine.  Best speed I can get is 30-40 mb.
> while the tablet sitting next to it is 140 mb+.
>  
> I'm wondering if the old laptop has a wireless card that is old and slower?  Everything I knew about computers is old and obsolete after 20 years out of the business.  Can someone with current knowledge tell me if the problem is with an antiquated card in the laptop and is there a way to get better wireless speed on the laptop?  or is that just the nature of wireless nowadays? BTW the laptop is running windows 7 with no options to run win 10.
>  
>  
> thanks
> John
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