Wireless Router Speed Problem.

[Skandaluz]

Ok, First off, I think I understand the whole difference between Mbps and MBps and the same with kilobit and kilobyte. But just to make sure, I currently have SBC/ATT DSL on the 3.0 Mbps package. Therefore, the max download speed would be 3072 kbps or 384 KBps. Right? But with overhead and such, I get about +-2400 kbps or 300 KBps which seems right.

Ok, Onto the problem, I currently have a Netgear WGR614 Wireless 54G router with 4 computers hooked up to it. 3 by cable and 1 by a Netgear Wireless G USB adapter. The computer wirelessly connected is the HTPC. I like to stream video to the HTPC everynow and then from my computer which is connected by cable to the router. The wireless connection is connected at 54 Mbps which in turn should be about 6900 KBps or a little under 7 MBps without any overhead. But with overhead, you should get at least like half of that which should be about 3.5 MBps. My problem is that, the max rate in which the HTPC will download anything is about 1 MBps. Anyone know as to why that is happening? I've checked the router and made sure their is no speed limiting setting or anything of that sort. My computer is connected to the router at 100 Mbps.

 

[mjia]

Your math is fine. btw, these calculation can also be done by googling: "3.0 Mbps in KBps"

You might want to test the actual speeds your HTPC can get over wireless. The 54 Mbps the computer says it is connected at isn't really very reliable. What you can do is run a program like TTCP: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm

Put it on your HTPC and a wired PC. Then test the transfer speed btw the two.

EDIT: on second though, 1 MB/s seems a low, even for a poorer wireless signal, so wireless signal strength may not be the prob. You can test the speeds anyways though.

 

[Skandaluz]

Alright, I'll probably try that test tonight or something.

Yea, 1 MB/s seemed really low to me. Everything works fine and all but it just bugs me that it maxes out at 1 MB/s though.

 

[JackMDS]

Under optimal conditions (Wireless Client next to Wireless Router in a None noisy environment) the Netgear delivers about 16Mb/sec.

Bigger Distance positioning of Antenna, obstructions, Noise, and it is anybodies guess what you would get.

Otherwise, try to optimize the TCP/IP stack the optimization is done according to the type of Internet connection but it usually help LAN Traffic as well.

Optimizing & Measuring the "Speed" of Internet Connection.

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