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    transfer speeds over wireless

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jhwyung, Jan 11, 2006.

  1. jhwyung

    jhwyung Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all
    I just have a problem, I'm using my home desktop to store all my large files and some of them are 700-4 gigs in size, I'm trying to transfer some to my laptop but i'm having some problems.
    Over the last year I was living with some friends in university res and transferring files between us was blazingly fast, we used MSN to transfer and we could be done a large 700 file in like 10 mins. However I tried to do the same over a newly set up network at home and I can't seem to get fast speeds at all.
    I havec a D-Link 524+ wireless router that's hooked up to both laptop and desktop, however when I tried today to transfer a file it was super slow. It was almost hicupping when I tried to transfer files, like it would stop and then transfer a couple hundred K's of info and then stop again. I never had this problem before on any of the othe networks my desktop has been hooked up to.
    Can anyone help?
     
    jhwyung, Jan 11, 2006
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    nickspohn Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Is this wired or wireless?

    You more than likely at your old university, had a 108Mbps router.(Maybe) Which the one you have is a 54Mbps.

    Things i would do is disable all your firewalls temporarly and see if that could be the issue. The Windows firewall and any other firewall needs to be turned off.

    I would also go to D-Links site, look for Downloads & Firmware, and upgrade your routers firmware. Your current routers Firmware could be out of date and a simple download can fix this type of issue.

    -NS
     
    nickspohn, Jan 11, 2006
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  3. jhwyung

    jhwyung Notebook Consultant

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    thx! firmware upgrade fixed the problem!
     
    jhwyung, Jan 11, 2006
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    nickspohn Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Thats awesome, glad to hear it worked out for you! :)
     
    nickspohn, Jan 11, 2006
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