Hi silverrealm,

Try connecting to the same network using wired connection and check for the speed. If the speed is good try performing the steps provided in the below mentioned hyperlink:

Tips for Troubleshooting Slow Home Internet Connections

Through wired connection, it works perfectly. its the normal speed i get in the past abt June this year.  I've tried everything there and it doesnt work at all. When i first started using this new laptop the speed was SLOW already, no to mention now, download speed running at 11kb/s while wired conections are 202kb/s

Hi silverrealm,

In this condition I suggest you to please check with the Service Provider for the speed related issues and try connecting a different laptop (if available) wirelessly to this network and observe the speed.

Do reply with results.

for DELL CS team, 

This is not an ISP issue, this is a well known issue with the centrino N-2230 wifi adapter.

Recently bought vostro 5460, I'm within a school network which constantly got >10mbps in other computer but with the Vostro 5460 the wifi would sometime drop and even when connected the speed would constantly underperform (about 25% as fast as the other computer). 

DELL would need to look into this and issue a solution to all of us who bought this laptop.