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Speed half of what it should be?

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NPVince

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I have everything set up fine now (except I still don't have WEP enabled because the wireless card still doesn't like it), except for one thing. On the wireless PC, I went to dslreports and did the speed test like I always do. It came out a little on the low end, so I went to speedguide to look up the registry tweaks I needed to do. I did them all, and then rebooted. Confident that my speed would be back to normal, I go back to dslreports, take the test again and, you guessed it, it was at the same speed as before. On my wired PC I'm getting 4.5 Mbps whereas wih the wireless I'm only getting 2.2. I have a Netgear 108 Mbps router with a Netgear 54 Mbps card, so there shouldn't be any problems there, should it? I can't really think of what might be the problem.
 
Internet speed and DSL reports services are not tools to measure and tune your Network Wireless connection.

You want to evaluate your Wireless do it by transferring information between your LAN computers.

The 802.11g connection should yield 18-20Mb/sec. (about 2.5MB/sec.) functional file transfer between the two computers when the Wireless computer is only few ?away from the Wireless source.

You can use this as a tool to evaluate local LAN ?Speed?.

Link to: A FREE Utility for Network Troubleshooting from NetIQ!).

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Did you even bother to actually read my first post? Besides the fact that I can't even send files between the two computers yet (Yet another problem I might need to ask help for at some point), that's not what this is about. The actual connection between my two computers is fine. It reads as being 54Mbps with excellent signal strength, which is exactly what it should be. I'm talking purely about Internet download speed here. Like I said, I always do the same exact test at DSL reports (The Miami Speakeasy java speed test). I did it for my wireless PC this morning, it came out as 2.2 Mbps down. I did those registry tweaks like I said, expecting it to get better, which it did not. The very next minute I head over to my wired PC, do the same exact test, and I get 4.5 Mbps down easily. There shouldn't be that much of a difference between the two. If I'm wrong and this sort of thing is normal, I could always just switch which computer is wired and which is wireless. But I'd rather find a better way to "fix" this, if I can.
 
Originally posted by: NPVince
Did you even bother to actually read my first post?
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Take it easy on me with my public Education that is the best that I am capable of!

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Hmm... Thinking about it NYU Medical Center is Not a public School. Well what ever.

 
The recommedations JackMDS gave are very valid ones. And I would say, "Yes, he did read your post, that's why he answered the way he did." You already tweaked your TCP/IP settings and that did not make any difference, so the issue is probably being caused by something related to the wireless connection itself. I would particularly question the operation or configuration of the wireless card if it really "doesn't like WEP" as you mentioned in your original post.

Test the wireless connection leaving the Internet completely out of the picture by copying files between the two computers. If file transfers between the two computers are slow, then you'll know why your Internet speed test is also slow.

Just because your client says the connection is "Excellent" at 54Mbps that doesn't mean you're actually going to transfer information at that speed. You need to run some controllable (local) tests on the connection to verify where the problem lies. If you need help configuring file sharing between the computers so that you can do this test, post here what your current configuration is (Operating system on the computers, any firewalls installed, etc) and we'll get you set up.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
Originally posted by: NPVince
Did you even bother to actually read my first post?
Click to expand...
Take it easy on me with my public Education that is the best that I am capable of!

:sun:

Hmm... Thinking about it NYU Medical Center is Not a public School. Well what ever.
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Sorry, it just felt like the information you gave wasn't really relavent. I didn't mean anything by it, I just didn't think that it might be my actual wireless connection. Anyway, after that first post I got WPA-PSK working. Yet I still can't transfer anything between the two computers. Both of them are on XP Pro and neither of them have firewalls.

Except I just realized that I had ZoneAlarm on all this time on the wired computer. I just sent a simple txt to the wireless computer from the wired. Now, just what exactly should I send between the two?
 
A large video file (or a large batch of .MP3 files) would be a good test. Copy the same file or group of files to and from each computer and measure exactly how long it takes to do each copy. Also use the utility that JackMDS posted earlier. Let us know the results and we'll go from there.

And yes, ZoneAlarm could definitely prevent file sharing between the computers. 🙂
 
It took almost exactly 2 minutes to send a 180,000 KB avi file from the wired computer to the wireless. And about 3 minutes and 10 seconds the other way. I don't know exactly how you want me to use that utility, but I have it.
 
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