Hi, What would the typical transfer speeds for this card be? After testing I found the average output speed was 2MB with a max of 2.4MB, And Incoming was a average of 900KB and a max of 1.1MB. These speeds seem extremely slow to me. I have the most up to date drivers for this card and i'm wondering if It might be a issue with my Wireless router.
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Yes, those speeds are a little on the low side. It is probably something to do with the router and not the wireless card. I also have a card like yours, and whilst I haven't checked the speeds on the card, I believ it transfers files quiker than 2 MB/s. Also, the distance impacts the maximum speed tranfer alot. The closer you are, the quicker the card. Try and test the card about 5 feet from the router, to get a reliable result, if you have not already done so. Hope this helps.
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I was sitting two feet from the router and the card was reporting the connection as "excellent"
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That is a bit weird. Does the speed actually feel like 2 MB/s when tranferring files or anything. If you have another wireless computer, maybe you check what the speed of that is, when connecting to the same router.
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Its painfully slow, It takes like 40 minutes to transfer a 300mb TV show
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check if you have the latest firmware for your router?
The theoretical max (which you should be pretty close to) would be about 6.75MB/s. -
40 minutes? that is horrible...like 100kb/s. Roughly for me...with a "good" connection (3 bars out of 5), it takes me about 2-3 minutes for a 700MB ish movie (equals roughly 5mb/s) with the same card. I'm guessing if I was close to my router with a "excellent" connection I could probably get speeds close to 6mb/s. The router I'm using is a Linksys WRT54GL, so it could be your router settings or even your card settings. You probably already know this, but there are a few configurations that you can set with this wireless card to improve its performance while sacrificing battery life.
- Ad HOC power management: "noisy environment"
- Power Management: "highest"
- Throughput Enhancement: "enable"
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I was wondering the same thing.
I have the same card.
intel pro/wireless 3945ABG Speeds
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by matt_h1, Dec 21, 2006.