Not so win

Are the internets always this slow on a wireless router? The only time my webpages seem to load properly is when I'm in the same room as the router, which kind of makes this whole "wireless" thing a bit moot. LJ loads, but slowly, and my Yahoo! mail has yet to load at all. This happened last night (when I tried from my bedroom on a different floor from the router) and again this morning (from the next room over from the router).

Should I be doing something different? Is this a User!Error? My router right now is on the floor until I get some shelving set up. Could the positioning somehow be affecting my signal? For the record, it's Wireless-N Broadband router, and apparently has a "built-in" antenna, according to the sales guy. I really hope it's a user problem, because I can fix that and not be out the money this thing cost.

Theories? Anyone?

In other news, I wish the appliance people would hurry up and get here. I'm tired of living with no fridge.

Woe!

After one glorious, heady evening of wireless internet, my connections are all borked. I just spent an hour and a half on the phone with Sympatico's tech support, and they got my regular connection up and running again. I am displeased.

I have the 1-800 number for the company that made my router (LinkSys, which the guy told me was good, but perhaps he lied in order to make his sale), and as soon as I've recovered from the last conversation with customer service, I'll be calling them to figure out what the hell is wrong with my router.

I tried the signal right in the living room (right before everything went to hell), and even then nothing loaded, so something must have gone horribly wrong with the wireless connection overnight. Why would it work last night and not this morning? God only knows.

Now I have to go about unpacking and setting up bookcases and CD racks and towel racks. I wish I hadn't had to spend all morning on this nonsense. :P