Hi Everyone

Just received my new S170. It is awesome. However, my internet is VERY SLOW. I know it is not my connection speed as I am typing this from my wifes Dell. Is there a factory default security setting that may be causing speed issues? I am using cable and am running off a wireless lan. I love the machine. However, I cannot live with not being able to go online. I bought the 1.5 mhz centrino with 512MB of ram. Certainly enough firepower to surf. Any suggestions?

[quote author=“dandtnor”]Hi Everyone

Just received my new S170. It is awesome. However, my internet is VERY SLOW. I know it is not my connection speed as I am typing this from my wifes Dell. Is there a factory default security setting that may be causing speed issues? I am using cable and am running off a wireless lan. I love the machine. However, I cannot live with not being able to go online. I bought the 1.5 mhz centrino with 512MB of ram. Certainly enough firepower to surf. Any suggestions?

dont know what u mean by very slow, as i live in a country where the fastest u can get is about 8 KB/s up and down, but the first thing i would do - if u have not already - is dump IE for something like Opera, which is a whole lot faster and safer.  but i have a TR3 whose older 802 bla bla has always seemed to blaze when at a developed world’s hotspot.

why dont you try using a cable…see if the speed is still slow. My TR has some issues with the wireless SMC router installed in my uncle’s place…the net works for a few secs and then mysteriously just stops working…so I’d connected my linksys wireless G router to the SMC router and it works perfectly fine now. My cousin sis with her crappy laptop and card has almost no problems using the wireless off the SMC. May be your laptop too has issues with the wireless connection off that router

I downloaded Mozilla. I like that better then IE anyhow. However, the description that you mentioned describes my situation perfectly. I can jump online and can surf at normal speeds. Then all of a sudden it slows to a crawl. This is really anoying with a new machine. I am running a linksys router. Dont really understand compatibility issues as I have 2 other wireless machines that surf the net just fine on this router. Would u recommend a call to Linksys?

if u have an extra wireless card try that…also look up the sony website for updates for your machine (wireless could be one of them….i remember reading reviews for the TR and someone had mentioned it would mysteriously go offline…there were updates available on the sony website for wireless…probably the going offline thing was addressed in that since I dont have such problems with my linkss router and TR). Then may be install updates for win xp and finally if it still doesn’t work call up linksys. Make sure you have the information for your internal wireless card ready.