Bypassing Wireless

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I purchased a Microsoft wireless Base Station (MN-700)
and the Wireless Notebook Adapter (MN-720) and these work
good and I can connect to the internet. However, the
speed listed on the box is 54 mbps which is roughly half
of my direct DSL connection of 100 mbps.

My question is, is there a way to bypass the wireless
system and go direct to the internet while still going
thru the router.

I only have a laptop (no desktop) and only have one
computer.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
 
DougJoe said:
I purchased a Microsoft wireless Base Station (MN-700)
and the Wireless Notebook Adapter (MN-720) and these work
good and I can connect to the internet. However, the
speed listed on the box is 54 mbps which is roughly half
of my direct DSL connection of 100 mbps.

My question is, is there a way to bypass the wireless
system and go direct to the internet while still going
thru the router.

I only have a laptop (no desktop) and only have one
computer.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
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Are you sure your DSL connection is 100 mbps or is it 100 kbps (1mbps) which
I think is more likely. If it's 100kbps then your wireless network is more
than capable.
 
DougJoe said:
I purchased a Microsoft wireless Base Station (MN-700)
and the Wireless Notebook Adapter (MN-720) and these work
good and I can connect to the internet. However, the
speed listed on the box is 54 mbps which is roughly half
of my direct DSL connection of 100 mbps.

My question is, is there a way to bypass the wireless
system and go direct to the internet while still going
thru the router.

I only have a laptop (no desktop) and only have one
computer.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
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DSL does not run at 100 Mb/s; something in the vicinity of 1 Mb/s,
an usually less. So, whether the connection between yout PC
and your DSL modem uses 100 Mb/s wired or 54 Mb/s wireless will
not matter, because the datarate bottleneck is on the phoneline
side of the DSL modem.
 
"DougJoe" said:
I purchased a Microsoft wireless Base Station (MN-700)
and the Wireless Notebook Adapter (MN-720) and these work
good and I can connect to the internet. However, the
speed listed on the box is 54 mbps which is roughly half
of my direct DSL connection of 100 mbps.

My question is, is there a way to bypass the wireless
system and go direct to the internet while still going
thru the router.

I only have a laptop (no desktop) and only have one
computer.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
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You can bypass the wireless system by connecting your computer's
Ethernet adapter directly to one of the router's LAN Ethernet ports.

That won't make any difference, though. As Bob Willard and
CheshireCat have pointed out, your DSL connection doesn't run at
anything close to the rated speeds of 54 mbps or 100 mbps. In fact,
nothing runs at those speeds, which are theoretical maximums in ideal
laboratory conditions, not real-world speeds.
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