Improve Wi-Fi Speed!

BigDiesel07 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:35 PM

Here is a great tweak that speeds up your Wi-Fi.. It works by enabling the “g mode” of your device’s WLAN card (disabled by default on most devices). This hack has proven to improve Wi-Fi speeds by 3 times..

Iinstall the attached .CAB to the device, then soft reset. It will change the value of dot11SupportedRateMaskG from the default 4 (1 in some cases) to 8 inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TNETWLN1\PARMS.
Note: Some devices don't have that structure in the registry. If it's your case, our cab will create it automatically.

I do not take credit for the creation of this.. I merely happened to find this at the site linked above and thought to post it here..

chris5h · #2 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:40 PM

Awesome. OOC, does this improve WMWiFiRouter performance at all?

BigDiesel07 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris5h

Awesome. OOC, does this improve WMWiFiRouter performance at all?

It probably will.. It changes the Wi-Fi connection from "b" to "g".. That improves Wi-Fi speed, so thus possibly improving WM Wi-Fi Router...

**bedoig** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by chris5h

Awesome. OOC, does this improve WMWiFiRouter performance at all?

Even at 802.11B speeds, the cell connection is your limiting factor, not your WiFi connection.

**puff** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris5h

Awesome. OOC, does this improve WMWiFiRouter performance at all?

In regards to WMWifiRouter,

This obviously doesn't increase your MAX speed when using WMWifiRouter (as predicted) since your max speed is determined by coverage, signal, etc... however the response from the laptop thru the Wifi connection seems noticeably snappier. Perhaps its just a placebo effect, or could just be a really good tethering session. I have NOT done extensive testing. Ran a few speed tests and browsed a few emails, checked a few threads, read the latest posts on No2chem's blog, etc. This is what my comments are based on. Nothing more, Nothing less. So to sum it up. No increase on speeds, but seems to be snappier response.

BigDiesel07 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:52 PM

But WM WiFi Router uses the Wi-Fi Radio to connect.. So improving the Wi-Fi speed should help right?

**shaun0207** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigDiesel07

Here is a great tweak that speeds up your Wi-Fi.. It works by enabling the “g mode” of your device’s WLAN card (disabled by default on most devices). This hack has proven to improve Wi-Fi speeds by 3 times..

Iinstall the attached .CAB to the device, then soft reset. It will change the value of dot11SupportedRateMaskG from the default 4 (1 in some cases) to 8 inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TNETWLN1\PARMS.
Note: Some devices don't have that structure in the registry. If it's your case, our cab will create it automatically.

I do not take credit for the creation of this.. I merely happened to find this at the site linked above and thought to post it here..

can you out this cab into a Zip file for me? My job wont let us download cab files for some reason after our last firewall update last week.