O2 ADSL - Slower downloading with Wireless

[Rich_L]

Originally Posted by Mark

Any other wireless routers nearby? In the past, the recommendation was to aim to be at least six channels away from neighbouring routers to minimise interference. Getting hard to achieve that now with wireless proliferation.

PS - Was the 87% reported while you were downloading? It's very common to get good figures while the wireless is idle, only for them to fall off a cliff at the first hint of actually downloading something.

Getting hard is an understatement, at our house I did a 'search for networks' and there were 18 within range - terraced houses split into flats + narrow street = ooodles of wireless networks!