Wireless network at home, slow??

Silent Frog · Apr 28, 2006

I have a router which my PC is plugged into via a cable. And I have a laptop with a PCMCIA 16bit 11Mb/s WiFi card. Now, it says its getting 100% signal, as it should because its only 2 meters from the router. But when I copy from my PC to my laptop it only gets 3Mb/s (According to the task manager on my PC.)

Any one know what I can do to get 11Mb/s out of this setup? Without buying a new WifI card?

Thespis377 · Apr 28, 2006

3 Mbits? or 3MBytes?

Bios24 · Apr 28, 2006

He must mean 3 megabits because an 11 megabit wireless card is good for 1.375 megabytes max.

Thespis377 · Apr 28, 2006

Oh yeah, good point. I had just woken up when I replied to it.

bchur83 · Apr 28, 2006

That is about normal, especially if you have any encryption on your network. This is probably due to the overhead that is required for the excryption.

Silent Frog · Apr 28, 2006

I don't use encription, no need where I live. So, if a 11Mbits card only does 3Mbits, what would a 54Mbits card do? 12Mbits? I really need faster transfer between my laptop and my PC. True 11Mbits is good enough, but more the marrier

Bios24 · Apr 29, 2006

Careful with the megabits vs megabytes. Remember: 1 byte = 8 bits I use the google to do my conversions. FYI- 54 megabits = 6.75 megabytes. Bare in mind this is the theorectical max. With overhead/encryption you'll be looking about closer to 4-5 megabytes per second tops in the real world. Even less if you don't have a good signal or have lots of people sharing the wireless.

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