Ok, I bit the bullet and bought win8pro while it was on sale. Not wanting to use it on my main rig I put it on my aging laptop. So far, metro aside, I've been pretty impressed. Most everything is running faster (probably due to going from Vista home prem 32bit to Win8pro 64bit) with the lone exception being my wireless connection. I'm getting about half the download speed I used to get. Here are the specs:
laptop:
Dell Inspiron 1525
2 gig DDR2
5400 rpm 140gig hard drive
ISP
Cox Cable Premium @ 25/3 (get 32/5-8)
Netgear DNG2000 wireless N router with stock firmware.
before I upgraded windows I would get close to 30 Mbits/sec down and 5 up, which wasn't too far off what I got on cat5. Now I only get about 15 max on down but still get about 5-8 up. I've tried this in multiple browsers, while charging or on battery, etc. I've made sure its not using a generic driver, made sure the power performance settings were set to max, to no avail. Anyone else have any idea's or is it just a driver issue?
laptop:
Dell Inspiron 1525
2 gig DDR2
5400 rpm 140gig hard drive
ISP
Cox Cable Premium @ 25/3 (get 32/5-8)
Netgear DNG2000 wireless N router with stock firmware.
before I upgraded windows I would get close to 30 Mbits/sec down and 5 up, which wasn't too far off what I got on cat5. Now I only get about 15 max on down but still get about 5-8 up. I've tried this in multiple browsers, while charging or on battery, etc. I've made sure its not using a generic driver, made sure the power performance settings were set to max, to no avail. Anyone else have any idea's or is it just a driver issue?