New user of N810. I bought it to replace my 624 MHz Dell Axim X30 and want to be able to surf the internet and check e-mail etc. at least as fast at the X30. While the N810 is optimized for full internet access, I am finding it grindingly slow when accessing through my home wifi network. I have been reviewing/searching the posts on this forum and have not found anyone with the exact same problem. I have re-formatted my internal memory card as suggested. I have tried restricting the number of connections, etc. as suggested (didn't make a difference so I set it back). I have also extended virtual memory and browser cache to the max values.

The symptoms are that accessing websites such as maemo.org or other websites; downloading software or updates, etc. is SO SLOW that either I eventually give up or the device times out.

Here is the rub: I went to my daughter's house and used their wireless and it seems to be okay. Therefore, it must be something in either (a) my home setup or (b) something about the way the N810 interacts with my home setup (c) or my ISP.

My home setup in order of connection from the video cable at the wall: (1) cable modem (for Comcast broadband); (2) telephone adapter (for VOIP phone); (3) wireless router.

One thing I have noticed: many connections on my wireless router (between 4 and 10, depending on how many computers are powered on in the house) with sometimes as many as 3 identified as "null". I know that the N810 is one of these (and could be the others as well?) although I am not sure why it doesn't identify it as "Nokia N810" as that is what I assigned it when setting it up. (we have 4-5 windows PCs; a couple of Macs; couple of laptops; WII, Playstation3 but not all on at the same time - the Wii likes to connect itself to the internet when in standby so I have powered it off; Playstation is off; even when we get down to only 2 pcs plus the N810 and I reset the wireless I still have a very sluggish connection)

I could reconfigure the network as an experiment to get the router closer to the broadband but I don't think that is the problem. Each of the three boxes coming in from the wall have a hardware firewall enabled but I don't think that is the problem either; at least this isn't a problem for any of the other devices.

I am wondering if I am missing something in the way that the N810 interacts with the wireless router that would cause the router to lock up periodically (seems to work for 10 seconds then stop for 60 seconds or more; work for 5 seconds and then stop for a couple of minutes, etc.) Or, the router could be bad - there have been problems since I got the N810 with losing connection on some of the other boxes.

Any suggestions? Should I go back to the configuration in which I limited the number of connections on the N810?

Sorry for such a long newb first post (but at least I have searched and re-searched the forums over and over).

Honestly don't think the N810 saturates your connection or router's cpu.

Wifi is only as fast as the slowest device connected to it (sync issues.) It may be that one of the other devices has a bad connection, forcing the router to sync at slower rates. It may even be that the N810 is causing it to sync down. [Heck it may be any number of reasons - is your neighbour using your wifi without asking you? Is your ISP throttling traffic? etc, etc]

Having tried it on your sister's router - your router may just be badly designed and having issues, or your ISP may be doing naughty things. I know from personal experience that I've had no issues with the great many routers that I've connected to.

Sorry for not being much help

Thanks.

MY bets are that it's either Comcast, who can be pretty erratic where we live at times, or the router (or one of the other two boxes). VOIP doesn't show any signs of being impacted (it is very noticeable when it is) so I am guessing it is downstream of the telephone adapter- which is the wireless router and connections.

I am still puzzled by the multiple "null" connections (usually three). I did another experiment last night where I checked who was connected (3 out of the 7 DHCP clients were "null") and then restarted the router to dump everyone off, leaving one PC and the "null" corresponding to the N810.

It is possible but not likely that the N810 is connected with one IP address and then re-requesting DHCP due to some issue; hence the multiple occurrences of null device. But not likely.

Really not likely that it's one of my neighbors.

I guess my next step will be to swap out the wireless router and see if that addresses it.

One thing that would help: Is there some way to force the N810 to identify itself to the DHCP as something besides Null?

On a average day I expect about 300kB/s over WiFi on the n810. Using performance tools that do not have to interact with memory or saving the files I can get upwards of 700kB/s but that does not seem to be the reality of the device.

To give you an idea that means 100MB of data will take more than 5 minutes to download vs my laptop which can download that in ~20 seconds. ( over the LAN , not internet )

I've read many places that the nokia IT's suffer from lower wifi connection bandwidth problems, ie slow upload, and download speeds from the device. So I can sort of second brontides opinions.

PS is this a hardware limitation?