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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
Switches are good, hubs are bad. If you're using a hub, you may as well just twist all of the wires together. A hub will not be full duplex, and will create collision domains which will make things much slower.

Try the other wireless flavors for different speeds. Find the most up to date drivers for your wireless adapter.
This is likely the cause of the slowdown. Upgrade to a switch.

Also - if your 100 ft cat-5 cable is kinked, it is junk. I would suggest running another cable from the modem to upstairs as a test. Just run it through the house if you have a long enough cable, and see how it fares.

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