Extremely slow speeds across home network

pacina

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Mar 9, 2013
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Hello I was looking around the web about my slow speeds and see people giving out about there speeds only been in the low megabytes I wish I had any where near that.
I'm new to networks well not really new been avoiding them for along time but im sick of not been able to just transfer my files from pc to laptop anytibg above 1gig will take hours I started a 10gig file lastnite and stopped all other traffic but after 9 hours it was still only 34% done.
Like I said I don't like networking so im not 100% sure what Nic I have in the laptop or pc but both are new enough to match and should be able to match the 54Mbs (or close enough) that my router is capable so any advice anybody can give me for copying would be great.
Also should say the laptop pc and router are all within 7feet of each other and I live in the country with no other wireless networks around to interfear. Also wired is not a longterm option
 

Arcanedeath

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If you want higher transfer rates over wireless try using some 802.11AC gear, for bulk transfers like 10gig you should just plug it in to gigabit Ethernet and go back to wireless after the transfer is done.
 

Lithium381

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So, remember that you're not really going to get 54mbps. . wireless is a shared medium and is half duplex(well, ABG are). If it's only once in a while, i would highly recommend just using a wired connection. You say you need a longterm option. . . look at N routers. They offer 300mbps and can go full duplex depending on what your laptop supports..
 

s44

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for bulk transfers like 10gig you should just plug it in to gigabit Ethernet and go back to wireless after the transfer is done.
Yep, this.

Of course, if the router is G-era (54mbps!) it's not going to have gigabit either.
 

Fardringle

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Under absolutely perfect conditions (most people never get this except in a controlled environment) with all equipment working flawlessly, a wireless G network can sustain a transfer speed of about 3.4 MB (MegaBytes) per second. At that rate, a 10 GigaByte file should take around 50 minutes to copy. In a more realistic environment, 1.5-2MB per second is about average for a G network, meaning that 10 GB file should take about 80-110 minutes to finish. On a properly functioning 100mbps wired connection (what your router probably has), the same file would take about 13-15 minutes to copy. So personally I'd go with what others have said and just use a wired connection when you need to do large transfers and go back to wireless when you are done.

However, if the numbers that you quoted are accurate, then there is either something seriously wrong with your network, or something else is using the wireless network VERY heavily causing your speed issues. We can give you some things to do to test this, but you said that you want to avoid anything technical about the network and you'd have to be willing to do some troubleshooting if you want to find the source of the problem.
 

pacina

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Thanks for all the replys.
Like i say i don't really want to go the route of plugging in and out wires every time i need to transfer a file if im doing that im aswel to just use a usb pen.
I hate networks but have no problem doing some trouble shooting for a few hours il post back with the info for my router and Nic cards to see if that gives ye any more info on what my problem mite be.