Mr_Odwin Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I have a desktop running Ubuntu with all my media files on it and I have a laptop running Vista. A 54G router connects the two (desktop is wired to it, laptop has a wireless G card) and I can transfer files between them, but the transfer speed seems to top out at about 1.25mb/s (so a 75mb file would take about a minute to transfer). This seems low. Is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 That is... very low. Unless your router has abit of an issue from going to wired to wireless it could be an issue with signal strength. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Signal strength is very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanchez Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 can you plug the laptop in and see if the speeds are ok wired? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCK Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Seems right to me. The wireless at my parents gives me 1 MB tops. There's some distance and walls between the two. Maybe that setup is too slow as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 can you plug the laptop in and see if the speeds are ok wired? I only have one wire unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympic Gamer Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Any other activity involving the router will significantly hamper the speed (As I've found but may be obvious). Fastest wireless file transfer I did involved my laptop, main computer and a netgear wireless max router and it took about 3 minutes for a 350mb video. Even so, thats about 2mb/s, im happy with it, but I'm pretty sure something should be faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 When I get home I'm going to switch it from mixed mode to pure G and see if that makes a difference. Edit: Got home and switched to the 54G mode and the file transfer speed has gone up to 2.5MBps, which is like 20Mbps and I've read that isn't too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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