Wireless N transferring at 2mb/s. What am I doing wrong?

[NicePants42]

Summary: Getting ~2mb/s speeds while transferring files over a wireless N network. Both PCs running Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Now for the details.

Main rig is:
ABIT IP35 Pro, Q6600, Vista Ultimate 64bit. OS drive is a 150g Raptor. Data is stored on a Seagate 7200.9 HDD

Main rig is connected to a Verizon FIOS router (worst case 10/100) via one of the 1gb/s ports on the mainboard.

Trendnet WE-633GR is connected to the FIOS router as a wireless access point. FIOS router is not broadcasting a wireless signal.

HTPC in the living room is:
Gigabyte 780G mainboard, AMD 4850e, Vista Ultimate 64bit. OS and storage space is on a Western Dgital Caviar SE16 640gb.

Draft N wireless on HTPC is via ENCORE PCI card.

WPA2-PSK is enabled on the network. I believe the network is using channel 6. According to Windows, the HTPC is connecting to the wireless network at ~180-240mb/s.

I shared some folders on the main rig, accessed them via the HTPC, and attempting to copy ~20gb worth of files to the HTPC. Transfer speeds were reported at ~2.5mb/s, with estimated 2hrs+ to complete. This seems extremely slow.

I didn't mess around much with the routers - basically I just disabled wireless radio on the FIOS router (it only supports 802.11g) disabled DHCP on the Trendnet wireless router and set up WPA2-PSK. I tried not to touch anything else.

I was hoping to be able to use the HTPC to perform backups over the wireless network, but with 2mb/s transfer speeds, this won't be possible. Any ideas what is causing such low speeds?

This happened ~10;30pm last night so I haven't spent a lot of time changing settings to try and improve things yet. I figured it was probably better to ask for advice before doing that anyway.

Thanks in advance!

 

[TheKub]

What kind of files were you transferring? Vista had issues when transferring large numbers of small files vs a few large files (though I expect would have been fixed by sp1).

 

[NicePants42]

Loads of mp3s that could definitely be classified as 'large numbers of small files'.

 

[TheKub]

Originally posted by: NicePants42
Loads of mp3s that could definitely be classified as 'large numbers of small files'.

Then that might be part of it. I know my first run in with it was several months ago. I was copying 12GB of mp3s and photos and it took like 5 hours on a g network. On my XP\G network that would have taken well under half of that. To test, see how long it would take to move a few large files, maybe zip\rar that same chunk of files into 1 big file and send that to see what speed you get.

That is just my suggestion but I have no exp with N networks yet so maybe someone else might be able to offer some more input

 

[NicePants42]

Originally posted by: TheKub
maybe someone else might be able to offer some more input

That's what I'm hoping for - having to compress everything into .rar archives before transferring is not something I want to have to deal with. I will try this out though and see what happens.

 

[TheKub]

Originally posted by: NicePants42

Originally posted by: TheKub
maybe someone else might be able to offer some more input

That's what I'm hoping for - having to compress everything into .rar archives before transferring is not something I want to have to deal with. I will try this out though and see what happens.

Yeah for normal transferring its not acceptable but Id be interested to see the throughput on a huge file.