Wireless Connection Being Gay! Help

[ovvn.you]

right now im staying at a hotel, their wireless internet seems to be working fine on my toshiba satellite p25 s520 at 54 mbps excellent signal, my hp pavilion ze5800 however is running at 1 mbps low signal, it has a broadcom 802.11 b/g wlan adapter. its also losing internet and failing to load some pages without saying in the little wireless connection window(bottom right) that it has lost connection. any ideas? o yea, btw, its only being a pain on windows xp, when i boot in windows vista(beta 5308) it works like a charm.

 

[SNGX1275]

Driver issue?

 

[ovvn.you]

removed then reinstalled drivers, doesnt seem to be a driver issue, maybe a config issue? havent messed with anything, maybe my mom did something.

 

[ovvn.you]

ive made a breakthrough! it seems that the days inn has 3 different wireless connections with the same name but on different channels, 2 are slow and 1 is pretty fast, with the broadcom software i cant seem to change the connection to the fast 1, any ideas?

 

[ovvn.you]

well that wasnt the problem, its on the fast connection and its still running slow, my satellite works rather fast on the same connection so does anyone know wtf?

 

[Frank Smith]

some systems just do not work well together.... have you tried the broadcom 802.11 b/g wlan adapter in the toshiba satellite p25 s520 ??
when I travel I take both the old 802.11b adapter and the new 802.11g adapter... different brands... work differently at different hotel/motel & truck stops.

 

[ovvn.you]

that seems possible, but my problem is that it was working fast when i had just got here and about a week in kaputs :hotbounce it slows down like ****, o yea and when i log into windows vista on this same laptop, it works like a charm

 

[Tedster]

different modems and thus different attennas have different gain reliabilities. Your HP may have a cheap modem.