RealDaryl

Very interested in this product as I have a few external hard drives that I use with a couple of laptops and a desktop, and have been looking for a way to make them wireless so I don't have to keep physically moving them from one to the other. This seems like a cheap solution. In theory, I would have MobileLite and my most frequently used desktop hard drive plugged in to a remote controlled mains socket, and connected via USB to each other. So as and when I need to, I can wirelessly connect to the hard drive from one, two, or all three of my computers. Questions, that I don't know if anyone would have the answer to... - Would I have to press the "On" button for the MobileLite each time I wanted to use it? Or could I leave it so when I remotely turn on mains power it comes on? - Would it work ok with a 1tb desktop external drive? - Any chance with a USB hub I could attach it to multiple external drives? All individually powered - Is there an easier way of achieving what I want!!!??!!

I retweeted that via @RealDaryl Would love to win this for a machine I recently built

UK Resident. Here's my entry, and my tweet!! https://twitter.com/RealDaryl/status/340528422835064832 Thanks LinusTechTips!!

Thank you very much!!! Now that I'm home I gave your advice a go. I didn't have exactly the same options as you, but I made some changes, did another speedtest.net and got 34mb/s which is still slightly slower than my laptop, but nearly 16x faster than it was!! Thanks again

I have two laptops and two tablets. The tablets get over 20mb/s. The laptops get over 40mb/s. They are within 1m of where the desktop is, the desktop gets just over 2mb/s, and is closer to the router. I can get over 40mb/s on the laptops from anywhere in the house though, distance is not the issue. I would like to have the desktop up to the same speeds on it's own, without an NIC card, as the motherboard doesn't have any available slots, it's a mini itx board with one PCI express slot that is taken up with my graphics card. And I don't want to spend money on making the machine capable of something it should already be able to do. As I said it's only two weeks old.

The signal was never good with this machine. As I said in my OP, I've had it two weeks. In those two weeks it has always been slow, and it has performed slowly in my house and 2 others. It's the machine not the router, trust me.

@Levent - I'll give that a go when I get a chance, thanks @Ethnod - Thanks. Nothing has changed since I built the PC. Router is a Virgin Media Super Hub (not my choice). If the problem was with the router though, I would have thought it would affect all devices I connect. Wired is not a possibility, router is in someone else's bedroom.

Thanks for your response. The only wireless devices are phones, tablets and laptops. Whether they are connected or not it makes no difference. The distance between the PC and the router is about 2 metres with a wall in between, basically the router's in the bedroom next to mine.

Hi, This is my first post, heard about this forum on LinusTechTips youtube channel, and thought you might be able to help me with this problem. I built a gaming PC a couple of weeks ago using the Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe motherboard, it has on-board wifi. I also have two laptops and two tablets in my house, on these devices through speedtest.net I can consistently get a download speed of 40+mb/s on the laptops and between 20 & 30mb/s on the tablets. However on the PC I've built with the Asus motherboard, I'm consistently getting around 2.5mb/s regardless of any, or lack of any, activity from other devices on the network. I also get these speeds at 2 other houses I've taken the PC to. Things I've done so far: -Update the drivers for the Wireless LAN from the Asus website -Move the wireless antennas around that are plugged in to the motherboard -For unrelated reasons I reinstalled windows None of these made any difference. I'm unable to plug the PC in via ethernet due to the modem being in someone else's bedroom, even if it helped it wouldn't be a permanent solution. Asus have said to send it back to the supplier for RMA, but I can't be bothered, this is my first self build and I'm satisfied with everything but the wifi speed, I don't want to inadvertently mess anything up by taking it apart and putting it back together. Anyway... any help you could offer would be much appreciated. Thanks Daryl