How come?

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 20:56

I cant max out my connection over wireless? I dunno if i have a setting wrong somewhere, or it just cant do it.

Any help would be great.

lucifersam · 22 May 2006 at 20:58

whats your wireless card, your wireless/hub/access point, how far away are you sitting from your wireless access point?

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 21:06

lucifersam said:
whats your wireless card, your wireless/hub/access point, how far away are you sitting from your wireless access point?

Card is an Asus wireless g card, router is a Linksys wrt55ag, machine is about 2.5 - 3 metres from the router.

tolien · 22 May 2006 at 21:09

What speed's your internet connection?
Same over wire?

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 21:19

tolien said:
What speed's your internet connection?
Same over wire?

Its a 10 meg connection, but according to the adslguide speed test im getting 3meg. I just ran a test on my dads machine which is wired and its fine.

tolien · 22 May 2006 at 21:21

What's it like transferring a file to the wired machine?

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 21:25

tolien said:
What's it like transferring a file to the wired machine?

My old man is on Windows ME, and hasnt got a shared folder setup so i dont know off hand. I dont know how easy it is to setup a folder on ME, is there an easier way?

tolien · 22 May 2006 at 21:27

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 21:30

tolien said:
FTP?

I have no idea how to set a local ftp up.

tolien · 22 May 2006 at 21:32

It's probably easier to set up a shared folder, even on Windows ME.

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 21:40

tolien said:
It's probably easier to set up a shared folder, even on Windows ME.

I just downloaded a file to put into my shared folder and i was only getting about half the kbps i was getting before i went wireless, and that was on a wired connection!!

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 21:46

It maybe an isp issue.

gib786 · 22 May 2006 at 22:29

i have a 10mb ntl line, most of the time my downloads over wifi are in the 800kbps area, but the same download of wired connection is a good 1.3-1.5mbps, it sucks being over wifi!

tolien · 22 May 2006 at 22:50

Aspect said:
It maybe an isp issue.

Unlikely if it's fine wired.

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 22:53

tolien said:
Unlikely if it's fine wired.

Well on a 2nd look maybe its not, max dl speed was like 600kbps. I should be getting double that.

Aspect · 22 May 2006 at 23:24

gib786 said:
i have a 10mb ntl line, most of the time my downloads over wifi are in the 800kbps area, but the same download of wired connection is a good 1.3-1.5mbps, it sucks being over wifi!

Well that sucks

fluiduk · 23 May 2006 at 10:28

I had a similar problem with wireless. It the end I changed the MTU on the wireless card to the same as on the router and it was just as fast as wired. Might be worth a look

Aspect · 24 May 2006 at 00:17

fluiduk said:
I had a similar problem with wireless. It the end I changed the MTU on the wireless card to the same as on the router and it was just as fast as wired. Might be worth a look

Whats the MTU then?