Help please

[adeang]

Okay I have a built in wireless adaptor on my desktop computer, but I wanted a better rate of ping, and speed. So, I purchased a 50 ft cat5 or something ethernet cable and I have disabled my wireless adaptor. One question that I have is that how to I enable my wireless adaptor for in future use. My other problem/question is with the ethernet cable hooked up I get a slower ping and my connection is slower when I use the speed test website provided at top. So I would like to know how to fix this and or know why using an ethernet cable seems to be faster, but when checked it way slower.

 

[johngalt]

What process did you use to disable your wireless adapter? If you disabled it in Device manager, then you'll probably need to only re-enable ti in Device manager again - but if you cannot see it you my need to go to View --> Show hidden devices in order to see it to enable it.

If your Ethernet connection is slower than your wireless connection, something is *seriously* wrong - check your Ethernet ports on both the computer and the router you're connecting to and make sure they are not limited - IOW they should be 100 Mbit minimum and 1000 Mbit / 1 Gigabit max. If one is 1000 and the other is 100 that is OK - but if either is 10 Mbit, then you're in for a slowdown, sort of.

It also depends upon what your ISP is providing you with, what type of hardware you have, whether there is a router involved or not, etc.

 

[adeang]

Okay know how to turn on and off wireless adaptor, but Still want to know about internet speed. I got way higher dl and upload speed and even a better ping with wireless, but when hooked with cord I get like half dl speed about a 20 ms difference in ping as in slower and my upload speed is just a little slower.