transfer speeds

Im sure the claimed 54mbs is a little high, but im transfering a lot of music files and videos between my laptop and my desktop. right now im doing a folder thats 400 mb so it should take under 10s to transfer however its taking over 15 minutes and my connection strength is excelent. why so slow? My desktop is wired to the router and my laptop is capable of the 54 mb/s speed.

 

Its hard to explain but the easiest way that there is a problem is how far is the router from the laptop? Just a couple feet can slow things down. Nothing in is wrong with the router, the same thing happens to me too sometimes. What you could do is try going to your routers site and try downloading the newest firmware. Then go to your wireless cards site and download the newest drivers for your card. Its a start

Nick

 

Actually, when talking about network card transfer rates, they're always calculated in Megabits per second, not MegaBytes per second.

8 Bits = 1 Byte
54MBits/s = 6.75MBytes/s

Therefore to transfer 400MB of data, it would take approx 60 seconds. That's only IF we lived in an ideal world that had no interference or overhead and was 100% efficient. But since we don't live in that world, it doesn't transfer at that speed. Best thing to do is to take what maximun ideal speed and divide by 2, for the time, multiply by 2. So to transfer 400MB, it should take approx 2mins. Is that the approx the time it takes for you to transfer 400MB?

-Vb-

 

Very Nice VB on explaining that!

Yeah im puzzled but there might be something on the top of my head since instead of 2 minutes its taking 15 minutes.

 

Thanks Nick. Now are you transfering via 802.11b or 802.11g? Do you have any 802.11b cards on your wireless network? If so, this could explain it. An 802.11G network will drop down it's speed to be compatible with the 802.11b products. So even if you had an 802.11G network, once the 802.11b card connects, the speed drops.

-Vb-

 

i am using a 802.11g on the laptop and the deskop is wired to the router. Thats good to know about the speed never knew that. But it is taking over 15 min for that to transfer and i was only about 7 feet away if it should only take 2 min its quite slow. also I noticed that in the windows task manager it is only using 9 or 10 percent of the network bandwidth if that means anything

 

no more suggestions? this is really taking forever and it seems strange that i am maxing out at 10%

 

Shift,

The only thing that I can think of is if the router is not capable of 802.11G. Other than that I have no idea, what kind of router do you have? (Brand & Model).

 

its a d link 524 or something something it said right on it its a g router why o why cant any thing work from the begining? my laptop card is a 2915 AGB as well

 

Well, that blows that theory out of the water...

I thought of something else, with that router you should be able to limit bandwidth...I know on my router I can limit the speeds which ports run at. That is the other thing that might be going on.

Login to your router and check all the settings. If you are using the desktop at the same time or downloading other stuff that might affect the connection too.

Hope this helps.

 

I messed around in my settings a little bit.

First to get there, you need to tryp 192.168.1.1 (Usually) and you can access the settings. Then go into something like advanced settings, (or something like that, just check each setting option, all routers are different.) Then look for Basic Rate and make sure its no defualt or not just 1-2Mbps. Sorry for the vague instructions, its the best i can do when it comes to things like this in wireless.

Nick