Is ~350KB/sec slow transfer speed over my wireless network?

[Giscardo]

I have a desktop hooked up to a Microsoft Wireless base station MN-500 via an ethernet cable. My laptop is hooked up using the wireless networking. The laptop is a new Dell, and is using the dell truemobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card to connect. I transfer files from desktop to laptop over AIM file transfer, and I only get like 300Kilobytes a second. Is this normal? I hooked up my laptop to my network at work (but with ethernet cable instead of wireless) and I could send from my work comp to my laptop over aim at almost 10 times faster.

Is there any way to make it faster or, is WiFi supposed to be this slow? It says I'm connected at 11Mbps. THat means I should get at least 1 megabyte/sec, if not more, right?

 

[ktwebb]

The high-end 802.11b equipment only gets about 750KB+ raw throughput. The SOHO variety hardware won't challenge those numbers but 300K is a bit light. Encryption, if enabled, could be a hit, and if your trying to push these 30-50 mW radios through obstructions (walls, ceilings, etc..) then you can also expect a performance hit from that as well. If the devices are in the same room then you might try upgrading the firmware on both the AP and Client (if you can) and making sure you have the most current drivers for the card.