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Wireless Network Performance Issues

My brand new Dell XPS system has been running flawlessly except its abysmal download speeds. I have tried isolating every variable I could possibly think of but I can't figure out the problem. I've talked to Dell and Belkin without making progress (thought I'd try). Here are the speeds:

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Guest [Entry]

"I finally ran an Ethernet cord and achieved the speeds I expected. I also spent a lot of time staring intently at signal to noise graphs. Somehow (I have no idea how), the same antenna in the same location experiences radically different levels of interference depending on which machine it was plugged into.

Picture a USB antenna sitting on a desk and all you do is move the connection end one foot from one machine to the next. That was somehow the cause of it. Go figure."
Guest [Entry]

"I finally ran an Ethernet cord and achieved the speeds I expected. I also spent a lot of time staring intently at signal to noise graphs. Somehow (I have no idea how), the same antenna in the same location experiences radically different levels of interference depending on which machine it was plugged into.

Picture a USB antenna sitting on a desk and all you do is move the connection end one foot from one machine to the next. That was somehow the cause of it. Go figure."