Wireless bandwidth slow on laptop.. why?

OK.. here is the situation.

Received ASUS W3V laptop. Wireless transfer rates are half the speed of my actual bandwidth.

Wired I get 6+ mbits, roughly about 750kb/s.

On my laptop I am getting no more than 2mbits.. around 200kb/sec if I'm lucky. It seems as though my wifi connection is capped, not allowing no more than 2mbits.. it's always around 1.7 mbits. Everytime I test, from dslreports.com to bandwidthplace to speakeasy.. it never goes above 2mbits! I DL'ed a file from the net on my desktop and got 780kbps transfer rate, I then dl'ed the same file on my laptop and only got 150kbps.

Initially I bought a D-Link DI-624 108G.. connection was excellent. I thought it was the router so I returned it and now have a Linksys wrt54g. It's fine, I get 54mbits excellent signal strength.

I flashed to the latest firmware thinking that was it and it wasn't. My speeds are still less than half from my desktop. People tell me I should be getting close to what my desktop is getting.

I am also a PC technician.. I have tried everything from disabling WEP, firewall, AV, some background processes.. updated latest intel 2915 drivers... still no luck!

I am frustrated and cannot figure out the problem.

Is it possibly a process sending data to my router hindering my down speed?... Below are pics of my situation I have color coded the pics, I hope someone can help me. Also notice my upload speed is the same!.. it's only the DL speed I'm worried about.

W3V XP Pro SP2


Desktop XP Pro SP1

 

Try checking you're wireless settings on your router to see if the wireless is capped at a certain limit. You may want to try locking the speed for wireless rather than setting it on Auto. Also, if you're using 802.11b technology, this could also be a limiting factor.

-Vb-

 

I've tried all of that.. I set the speeds manually, tried just B mode and G mode, also tried changing the channel. Oh well, guess no one really knows much about networking, thanks for your help though - 60 views and one response.

 

Did you try the mobile speed test at broadbandreports.com? I've heard it gives different numbers than the hardwire speed test.

 

Well, If all speed settings have been verified and operating only in G mode didn't help, the only thing I can think of is overhead due to encryption. Try disabling encryption completely (as a quick test) and see what kind of speeds you're getting. If it jumps up, then that means that your router or wifi card just blows when trying to encrypt/decrypt the info.

You also may want to try turning off Dlink's 108Mbps technology. This could be slowing it down as you don't have any cards that support it (assuning you're using the built-in wireless card with your notebook).

-Vb-