I am trying to copy some files wirelessly over my home network, but it seems a bit slower than it should be. The two computers are running Windows 7, the router is a 54G Linksys (WRT54G), and I am connected using the wireless G mode. Both computers report 'Excellent' for the wireless signal strenth. When copying the files, the speed reported in the copy status window is around 1.2MB/s. Shouldn't it be faster than this? Yes, I know 54 Mbps is not the same as 54 MB/s. 54 Mbps is theoretically 6.75 MB/s, so it seems like I should be hitting at least 3-5 MB/s. Any ideas what could be causing the slowdown and how to fix this?
P.S. Before anyone suggests disabling the AV software, I am using Microsoft Security Essentials and I don't think that would be the problem.
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try another channel?
is that speed on one latge file or several small?
expect 2.5-3.0MB/sec at best over G -
The average transfer rate for the WRT54G is 22 Mb/s due to error rate and relative distance to the router. WAN to WAN transfers are however close to half this.
Slow file transfer over home network
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by codester, Aug 21, 2010.