Wired 5Mb and Wireless 2Mb ??

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Hello,

I have just brought the Linksys Cisco WAG160n and its a lot better than the Belkin 54g i replaced it with.

With the belkin i could never break past 2Mb limit on downloads/speed tests. That was with a wired and wireless connection.

Now i have the Cisco WAG160n i have speed test download at 5Mb on a wired connection which is great. The router syncs at 5696kbps and IP Profile 5500kbps. Pings on speed test are 20ms on wired connection which is also great.

Now when i move over to wireless with the cisco all my speeds are haved ?? speed tests never above 2Mb, pings of 40ms :(

Why am i loosing so much speed when on wireless ?? its the small for every device that connects on wireless.

Why is there such a drop on wireless, i know wireless is slower compared to wired but not over 50% slower ??

When i run wireless tests the laptop is next to the router no objects in the way of the wireless signal.

The sercurity on the router is WPA2-PSK.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks Ben

(I am with ADSL24 ISP)
 
For starters, it's not a Cisco.
What other devices are you connecting to it at the same time? What speed does whatever OS the laptop's running say the wireless is connected at?
 
tolien said:
For starters, it's not a Cisco.
What other devices are you connecting to it at the same time? What speed does whatever OS the laptop's running say the wireless is connected at?
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Just my laptop is connected at the moment via wireless no other devices. No devices on wired connection.

Stats from router if they help.

DSL Noise Margin: 15.3 dB 18.0 dB
DSL Attenuation: 28.0 dB 16.0 dB
DSL Transmit Power: 19.7 dBm 11.9 dBm
Downstream Rate: 5728 Kbps
Upstream Rate: 448 Kbps



Running Win 7 Pro 64 bit on laptop.

Windows states connection status speed ranging form 65.00mbps to 117.00mbps

Thanks Ben
 
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The router stats are irrelevant, especially without the sync rate, but if it's >2Mbps with a cable then it doesn't make much odds what it's connected at.
If you have another device you can connect to it with a cable then try shifting something over the wireless network to and from that. It'll at least eliminate the internet connection.
 
tolien said:
The router stats are irrelevant, especially without the sync rate, but if it's >2Mbps with a cable then it doesn't make much odds what it's connected at.
If you have another device you can connect to it with a cable then try shifting something over the wireless network to and from that. It'll at least eliminate the internet connection.
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Updated to show sync speeds,
Downstream Rate: 5728 Kbps
Upstream Rate: 448 Kbps

Dont quite understand what your telling me to do with the last bit of the post.

Thanks Ben :)
 
If you have another machine, connect it to one of the router's switch ports and transfer something fairly big from one machine to the other.
It should go a hell of a lot faster than 2Mbps and if it doesn't, there's probably some issue with either the router's or your laptop's wireless cards.
 
Evening,

Well after using the Linksys WAG160N for a couple of days i have deciede its rubbish !

Unable to connect any windows vista computers. Flacky connection on machines that would connect and mainly rubbish wireless performace. For £90 it had to go back.

Got a refund and purchased a Belkin F5D9630UK4 G+MIMO Broadband Wireless ADSL Modem Router for £40.

It works great ! really easy to setup, all machines connect first time ! and the best bit 5Mb/s over wireless !!!

So problem fixed with a decent router :)
 
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