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Old 12-29-2012, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer View Post
As I posted earlier. My Century Link was less han satisfactory. They sent a tech to my home, He immediately determined that my desk top was the culprit. He said; desk tops are ment to be hard wired and when converted to wireless as yours is, you will lose at least half the signal and likely more in the evenings. At his suggestion, I purchased a much higher capacity wireless USB adapter than the one Century Link installed and this seems to have done the trick. Century Link high speed is delivered at 10 mbps and I am now at a 8+ and performing much better. Oh yes, I purchased the Netgear N900 adapter for $35 online, Walmart's cost for this same adapter is $65 plus tax.
Warren... I believe we're talking about two different issues here. I don't have a speed issue, when checking speed with speedtest.net. I have the 10Mb/s service and that's pretty much what I get. So, no complaints with that.

My issue, as well as some other folks on here, has been the instances of getting "Webpage not Found" when trying to access a site. If they have a DNS problem, it slows down the loading of pages, so you would have the effect of a slow internet.

Glad you issue is fixed... Mine seems to be corrected also [with new DNS Nameservers] and only time will tell.