Yet more wireless throughput woes

andyp

andyp

andyp

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Just built myself a new system to sit on the network as storage.

Using a Netgear WGT624 router and WG11T adapters on both machines.

XP pro is installed on the existing machine, and an nlite'd copy of xp pro on the server.

Both machines have excellent signal strength and the netgear software shows either 56mbps or 108mbps - yet whenever I try transferring anything over the network it hardly creeps over 4mbps - and just transferring a single 75mb file will cause the connection to drop.

Screenshot is of a transfer of the june2008 directx update. Just seconds after the screenshot the connection dropped off, then reconnected, and of course the file failed to transfer.

I know I was never going to get anything like the throughput of a wired network but surely it should be better than this?

 
Looks like I've found the source of the connection drops - the router keeps rebooting every time I try transferring anything that looks bigger than 25mb

Hmm.
 
Just upgraded.

The router admin page said it was up to date - Netgear website said different.

So far so good - looking at around 50 minutes for a 1.2gb file and no connection drops yet.
 
Hah, it got 3/4 of the way through the transfer and then stopped, saying the resource was not available.

Now I can't see the server on the network at all - looks like I may have to reboot it :(
 
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Nope I can't copy anything large across the network without it dropping the connection and not being able to reconnect. Every time requires a reboot of the server.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
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