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I'm stumped at the moment.
My clearwire wimax ISP works flawlessly when attached to my laptop. Great downloads, always perfect signal, never dies out. Can game, dl music, anything.
When I connect the SAME dongle to my PC.. it becomes a nightmare. Can never get above "Good" signal... constantly dies out after 15-20 minutes of use, reconnects after about 5-10 seconds telling me "Good" Signal again... becomes slow as molasses. Downloading at a quarter the speed i get on the laptop.
I've tried moving my desktop to the exact same locations .. put it outside even..to equal the locations I get maximum speed on laptop.. doesn't help at all. Have tried a USB extender, nothing.
Interestingly... I got these same issues on my laptop when I setup ICS to allow my Ipod touch to connect to the internet. Down to the constant disconnects ever 15-20 minutes. As soon as I disable ICS, the problem disappears.
Specs are:
Laptop:
Pentium T3400
2GB Ram
Vista SP2
PC:
Phenom X4 285
2GB Ram
XP SP3
So anyone have any ideas? Could Clearwire be doing this by MAC address detection? Could they be doing some kind of filtering/narrowing that Vista somehow bypasses?
My clearwire wimax ISP works flawlessly when attached to my laptop. Great downloads, always perfect signal, never dies out. Can game, dl music, anything.
When I connect the SAME dongle to my PC.. it becomes a nightmare. Can never get above "Good" signal... constantly dies out after 15-20 minutes of use, reconnects after about 5-10 seconds telling me "Good" Signal again... becomes slow as molasses. Downloading at a quarter the speed i get on the laptop.
I've tried moving my desktop to the exact same locations .. put it outside even..to equal the locations I get maximum speed on laptop.. doesn't help at all. Have tried a USB extender, nothing.
Interestingly... I got these same issues on my laptop when I setup ICS to allow my Ipod touch to connect to the internet. Down to the constant disconnects ever 15-20 minutes. As soon as I disable ICS, the problem disappears.
Specs are:
Laptop:
Pentium T3400
2GB Ram
Vista SP2
PC:
Phenom X4 285
2GB Ram
XP SP3
So anyone have any ideas? Could Clearwire be doing this by MAC address detection? Could they be doing some kind of filtering/narrowing that Vista somehow bypasses?