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Download Speed difference between Lan and Wireless

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SaHiL

Junior Member
Hello All,

I have a D-link router at 54mbps, I am seeing as much as 5 times decrease of download speed through my wireless laptop, than the machine connected directly to the router.

I have a 8mbps download speed from my isp, and my laptop shows "very good connection" with 4 bars out of 5 for connection to the router.

So what would cause a download difference of something like 300 - 400 kbps between lan and wireless downloads?

For more testing, I downloaded a 16mb msn files from messenger.msn.com from my laptop and from my lan computer. I was getting upto 450 KB/s from my lan machine and about 100 KB/s from laptop.

Suggestions, thoughts, ideas?

thanks in advance!!
 
Yeah, I am not too bothered about that, as I am restricted by my isp to begin with at 8 Mbps.

So the natural conclusion would be that my wireless communicating at even lower than 8 Mbps. But I have tested file transfer speed between my lan and wireless machines, and it is definately faster than my isp limit of 8mbps.
 
Manually force the laptop wi-fi card to G-mode -vs- auto (G and B). Doesn't hurt to do this to the router either, unless you plan on connecting to it with old B-mode cards.

I'm betting this will fix the problem.
 
Most home routers will never transfer to the internet at higher than 1mb/sec. Wireless is even slower, especially if WEP is enabled

If you are paying for 8mb/sec service then you need a router that is robust enough to take advantage of that, such as a

Netgear FVS338
 
Originally posted by: tallman45
Most home routers will never transfer to the internet at higher than 1mb/sec
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do you say this because of isp line restrictions or the routers themselves? i download peak at about 1.5mb/s, and im sure if i had more bandwidth i would go even higher.
 
I have 25 clients on 108 Mbps Super-G. I cannot tell a difference in speeds vs my 100 Mbps LAN. Transfers are very fast, I have two Access Points managing the load though.
 
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