Thinkpads Forum

Hi,
I bought a T60p laptop on March 2007 and also I have sony GRX 550 laptop bought in 2001.

T60p- 2.16GHz,2 GB RAM..
Sony GRX-1.x,512 GB RAM

If I use these two laptop to access website using wireless, Sony laptop is loading much much faster (2X) than the IBM Thinkpad. Thinkpad is the latest with much good configuration, still it is very slow. T60p is using Thinkpad wireless card..
I.E 6x is installed in both computers.


What is the reason?. How can I make T60p faster...please help..

hmm.. silver spring, MD huh That's not so far from me... maybe i should swing by with my T60 using another wifi card to test.

anyways, weird that is the case but i'm guessing when you say "faster" you mean the webpage comes up faster. IE could get all the info it needs for the page (as most are less than 1MB anyways) in 2 seconds but because of fragmentation and other drivers could cause it to render the page slower.

What you need a outside look via my above mentioned test (i'll go to your place) or load up another OS. A Linux live CD would be ideal as it runs from RAM and kinda eliminates the HD. Then you can test it there and see. The other thing could be your antenna cable might have been loose so signal quality is bad (NOT signal strength. You can have fulls but bad quality) so the router has to retransmit the signals which causes it to load slower. Lots of things go into play there.

Does this happen at your place only or other places? Coffee shops and other places?

Post your machine type (2007-XXX) so we can get the full details and probably some ideas.

I just changed my router, both operating on 802.11g, and both registered about the same signal strength at my T60. But the new router seemed faster. Not only that, it can pass VPN connection on the first try where I need to try 2 to 3 times with the old router.

I think the different is the amount of transmit/receive errors. Probably the old router had to retry many times to get the data thru error free. Then it would be slower.

There are many types of radio chips out there: Broadcom, Marvell, Atheros and others. The NIC and router chipsets should be from the same manufacturer to get the best performance. Sometime there is a bad match. The hard part is all box manufacturers (Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, Belkin, etc) use near all chipset makes inside, sometimes even in revisions of the same product. So best is to open the box and take a look. Likely components of the same make in the same series are tested together. So these may have best chance of working together well.

Thinkpads use intel and Atheros (Thinkpad brand) NICs inside. So a router with Atheros chipset may give best results.