I am trying to setup a home network of three laptops and one desktop running windows7 and a linux server that functions as the destination of all sort of backups. Desktop seat in a one of the bedrooms and ideally the linux machine will seat in living room behind the TV to serve contents via XBMC. For the time being I can not run Cat5 cable from my bedroom to living room. So, DIR-655 (connected to Motorola wireless cable modem) feeds my desktop via cat5 and wirelessly to all laptops.
I got the E2000 router and put tomato on it so it can act as wireless ethernet bridge to DIR-655. Linux box connected to E2000 for the time being. However with this setup, I am only getting about 6MBPS throughput when transferring files from other machines. So a backup will take insanely long time to create and restore.
While on wireless bridge mode, E2000 does not use Wireless-N speed exclusively. I can not run DIR-655 at 802.1n mode as well as some my laptops does not have wireless N card built-in.
So under my current setup, what would be a possibel solution to increase network throughput at the linux server end?
I got the E2000 router and put tomato on it so it can act as wireless ethernet bridge to DIR-655. Linux box connected to E2000 for the time being. However with this setup, I am only getting about 6MBPS throughput when transferring files from other machines. So a backup will take insanely long time to create and restore.
While on wireless bridge mode, E2000 does not use Wireless-N speed exclusively. I can not run DIR-655 at 802.1n mode as well as some my laptops does not have wireless N card built-in.
So under my current setup, what would be a possibel solution to increase network throughput at the linux server end?
