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janipewter · 15-10-2006, 13:21

802.11x drops significantly more packets that Ethernet does. I have a Linksys WRT54GL and a laptop with wireless and even when I'm sitting directly next to the router, full signal strength and speed, I can never download at my full Internet speed, whereas my desktop can easily download at 1MB/s+ because it's wired to the router rather than wireless.

If you have another machine on wired network, try copying a file to it from the laptop via wireless and see what kind of data rate you get.

15-10-2006, 13:21	#2
janipewter Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plymouth Age: 35 Services: Sky HD Multiroom, VM XL Phone, VM XXL BB Posts: 654	Re: Help with wireless network speed 802.11x drops significantly more packets that Ethernet does. I have a Linksys WRT54GL and a laptop with wireless and even when I'm sitting directly next to the router, full signal strength and speed, I can never download at my full Internet speed, whereas my desktop can easily download at 1MB/s+ because it's wired to the router rather than wireless. If you have another machine on wired network, try copying a file to it from the laptop via wireless and see what kind of data rate you get.