Dead USB ports on a laptop - ideas?

[Doug]

On 09/21/2014 09:11 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 September 2014 13:38, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21/09/14 13:16, Colin Law wrote:

/snip/

>>>
>>> On 21 September 2014 12:14, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you explain what you mean by limited bandwidth?  Bandwidth within
>>> your home network is nothing to do with your internet connection, if
>>> that is what you are referring to.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> That is what I was referring to, since my move into the wyldes everything I
>> took for granted has slowed down including my home network (still using the
>> same d-link router in addition to the "free" one provided by the ISP) this I
>> assumed was a symptom of the slow internet speeds out here! (Having moved
>> from a fibre optic connection in the city to the "top" broadband available
>> in the area everything is painfully slow ;-D)
>> Perhaps my faithful D-Link router is on it's last legs, file transfer speed
>> within my home network is CONSIDERABLY slower than it used to be! not
>> unusable but still noticeable to the point of a film being quicker to copy
>> onto USB stick and physically move the stick into the other machine!
>>

/snip/

>>
>> If you have any ideas why my home net has slowed I will of course try them
>> (perhaps in another thread as this is not even my thread & I don't like
>> hijacking others!)
> 
> Start another thread to discuss this, as you say, but any wired
> network should be able to get close to 100Mbps, the age of the router
> is irrelevant.  On wifi if you are only a room or two away from the
> router you should get at least 20Mbps (around 2MBytes/sec).  In the
> case of wifi living in the country can be an advantage as their is
> less likelihood of close neighbours clogging up the wifi channels.
> 
> Colin
> 

One point was made already: is your router further away from your
printer, or whatever it is that's slow? 
Another thing: look for some big metal appliance or somthing like that between the
router and the destination--a file cabinet, a refrigerator, something like that.
Is it possible that some other device, either in your house or in the next building
may be creating an interfering signal? Do you have some home automation that you didn't
have before? Change channels on your router and see if that helps. 

Just some ideas. Hope something helps. (I don't believe your router is "on its last
legs"--a thing like that either works or it doesn't, it doesn't fail gradually like
an electric motor.)

--doug