[Shop-talk] shop internet connection

[Gene Garrison]

And to put a finer point on it (and this is more for my curiosity than 
helping you), why is 30-40 Mb/s not adequate?  What is it that you're 
trying to do?

Maybe I should be embarrassed to admit this, but we went with the 
cheapest, 40 Mb/s tier on our fiber service, 'cause it works fine for 
everything we do.

- GeneG


On 1/2/25 11:30 AM, Thomas Coradeschi wrote:

> 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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