Before you ask, yes, our router's firmware is up to date. Anyways, I've had a problem with the internet up here recently.
See, downstairs, it's a steady 160 kps download speed, 1.32 mps speedtest. We have a wireless router, though. Before, it was a steady 160 kps up here, too, unless someone was downloading crap. Also, we have DSL, if that helps.
However, recently, it's only been 80 kps. Well, about 98 kps after I upgraded the router's firmware.
The main issue is that it's unstable. I don't know why it suddenly decided to do that. I think it started happening after our internet was down for a while, but we didn't change anything on our router. My internet is also slower up here than it's supposed to be.
I have no idea what's wrong. Our router's over 5 years old, though, so is the network adapter. Could that be it? Because the internet only has trouble up here. It was stable for, oh... the night after I upgraded the firmware (but still slow). Then it went back to its unstable and slow ways the next morning.
Any advice on what could possibly be wrong? Since it's no fun having lag spikes and such in online games. :X Could our router and/or adapter be dying? Would getting new ones possibly fix it? Or is it something else? Linksys WRT54G Version 2 is our router, BTW.
EDIT: And all I got from google was to upgrade our firmware. Which is why I upgraded it. XP The networking books lying around don't help either.
See, downstairs, it's a steady 160 kps download speed, 1.32 mps speedtest. We have a wireless router, though. Before, it was a steady 160 kps up here, too, unless someone was downloading crap. Also, we have DSL, if that helps.
However, recently, it's only been 80 kps. Well, about 98 kps after I upgraded the router's firmware.
The main issue is that it's unstable. I don't know why it suddenly decided to do that. I think it started happening after our internet was down for a while, but we didn't change anything on our router. My internet is also slower up here than it's supposed to be.
I have no idea what's wrong. Our router's over 5 years old, though, so is the network adapter. Could that be it? Because the internet only has trouble up here. It was stable for, oh... the night after I upgraded the firmware (but still slow). Then it went back to its unstable and slow ways the next morning.
Any advice on what could possibly be wrong? Since it's no fun having lag spikes and such in online games. :X Could our router and/or adapter be dying? Would getting new ones possibly fix it? Or is it something else? Linksys WRT54G Version 2 is our router, BTW.
EDIT: And all I got from google was to upgrade our firmware. Which is why I upgraded it. XP The networking books lying around don't help either.