How many other wireless connections are around you ? The problem is not SPEED but THROUGHPUT. With wireless, you are on a party line. SPEED is constant as that depends on the radio frequencies used. THROUGHPUT, the amount of data moved per second, is variable on a party line. There are two different mechanisms at work to slow down throughput. The problem with a party line is the access point, which can only talk with one user at a time, which makes it a bottleneck if there is more than one user. The more users trying to talk, the slower you move data. If you have 2 users, you each can only get half of the talk time per second of the access point which cuts your throughput in HALF for each computer. The 2nd mechanism is traffic jams. What you have is essentially a push to talk walkie talkie. When you want to talk (send data) you listen and if clear, you push to talk, and send data. No problem. If the line is busy, you wait and when the line clears, you push to talk and send data. Again, no problem. The problem of the party line arises when you are waiting for the line to clear and so is someone else. When the line clears, you both push to talk, your signals collide and nothing moves, Neither gets through. So, you wait for a reply and not getting one, timeout and try again and again until one of you gets out of sync far enough to be heard and force the other to wait. The traffic jam clears after a bit, but until it does NO ONE moves any data and throughput for everyone drops like a rock because of this DEAD time. So there you have it, the party line effect in a nutshell. The more users (transmitters) on the line, the slower ALL go because of waiting for the line to clear. Your neighbors on wireless COUNT. They have transmitters just like you do, at least a pair, and have to wait for you as you have to wait for them. Equal opportunity suffering with slower and slower throughput as the number of transmitters increases. Wireless isn't the "upgrade" you thought, is it? Sure, no wire is a convenience, but is it worth the headache of the party line effect? That said, cable broadband is a party line as well, just on a much larger, albeit faster, scale. The only difference between cable and wireless is that one system uses wire to carry radio signals. The radio signals on the wire are a much higher frequency which equates as a higher speed, but that does not always translate to increased throughput because THAT depends on the number of users on the wire. The more users, the fewer bursts of data you each get per second since the access point can only talk to you ONE at a time! The less total data moved per second, the slower your throughput.