Hello to all

after having my 1st net runing at home I got this strange problem.

I use now my laptop often with free AP in the city. Today (after playing a bit at home with crossed cables)
I experience a very strange problem on the road. Excelent signal with a spot I usually have good connection.
My Alfa USB says good signal and good link. (4/5 bars). I do have connection but it is crawing low: 30kbit/sec...
(2.4KBPS!!!!!). The same laptop at home has good wifi connection speed.

I noticed for the first time ( is it normal?) that I have an " internet gateway " connection ON only when I am
connected on the road with an open wireless AP ? at Home I have one which is not configurable as it is not
and open AP (WEP). On the road I see a configurable gateway connection.

I also installed latest emule a few day ago, and oppened 2 ports TCP/UDP recently.... could that be the reason?


both laptop and destop are XP pro SP2. I haven't been able to have fine filesharing permissions yet....
on a work group (with same user name and password) ... it's not a big issue, I just think maybe it's connected somehow.

At home the laptop as well as my desktop keeps looking for my bluetooth to connect to internet.... intermitantly even though the desktop XP is already on the net wia the wifi ...

Is it buggy the XP networking ...? vista makes an improvement in that respect?

best.

here is ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : user-aufmmt18x6
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54M bps USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-C0-CA-1A-AA-AA
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.71
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : ___2008 1:46:57 μμ
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : ___2008 1:46:57 μμ

Configuration: Windows XP
Internet Explorer 6.0