MN-500 slowdown

I have an MN-500 base station, and two PCs.
One machine is wired directly into the back, and the other is in the next
room, using an MN-510 USB adaptor.

my question is this... is all wireless 'slow'? or is it just me? I have
Roadrunner, 3meg/sec down, 512k/sec up (Ohio, just upgraded)

On the PC that is wired into the back of the router, i can cap the download
at 380K/sec, and hold it there till the download is complete.

On the PC that is using the wireless NIC, the downloads REFUSE to go above
about 260K/sec. Same site, same file, just different speeds... The signal
strength on the wireless is "Excellent" (full bar). And i am less than 20ft
away. (got the wireless router to cut down on cable clutter)

Is there a way to remedy this? I've done everything i can think of... turned
WEP off (dont like being naked to the wifi snoopers :] ), and have even
moved the base station up higher (was sitting on computer under desk, is now
sitting ON desk)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Is WEP on. It will slow down the connection.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have an MN-500 base station, and two PCs.
>One machine is wired directly into the back, and the
other is in the next
>room, using an MN-510 USB adaptor.
>
>my question is this... is all wireless 'slow'? or is it
just me? I have
>Roadrunner, 3meg/sec down, 512k/sec up (Ohio, just
upgraded)
>
>On the PC that is wired into the back of the router, i
can cap the download
>at 380K/sec, and hold it there till the download is
complete.
>
>On the PC that is using the wireless NIC, the downloads
REFUSE to go above
>about 260K/sec. Same site, same file, just different
speeds... The signal
>strength on the wireless is "Excellent" (full bar). And
i am less than 20ft
>away. (got the wireless router to cut down on cable
clutter)
>
>Is there a way to remedy this? I've done everything i
can think of... turned
>WEP off (dont like being naked to the wifi
snoopers :] ), and have even
>moved the base station up higher (was sitting on
computer under desk, is now
>sitting ON desk)
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Forward all replies to
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>
>
>.
>

No, I have WEP turned off. It's just slower for some reason.. is there no
way to combat this?
The wireless machine is XP Pro, So I don't think there should be anything
networking related that would cause it.. I download roughly 10gigs of data
a day, and this is really putting a bottleneck on my ability to do this.


Thank you for your response


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> Is WEP on. It will slow down the connection.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have an MN-500 base station, and two PCs.
> >One machine is wired directly into the back, and the
> other is in the next
> >room, using an MN-510 USB adaptor.
> >
> >my question is this... is all wireless 'slow'? or is it
> just me? I have
> >Roadrunner, 3meg/sec down, 512k/sec up (Ohio, just
> upgraded)
> >
> >On the PC that is wired into the back of the router, i
> can cap the download
> >at 380K/sec, and hold it there till the download is
> complete.
> >
> >On the PC that is using the wireless NIC, the downloads
> REFUSE to go above
> >about 260K/sec. Same site, same file, just different
> speeds... The signal
> >strength on the wireless is "Excellent" (full bar). And
> i am less than 20ft
> >away. (got the wireless router to cut down on cable
> clutter)
> >
> >Is there a way to remedy this? I've done everything i
> can think of... turned
> >WEP off (dont like being naked to the wifi
> snoopers :] ), and have even
> >moved the base station up higher (was sitting on
> computer under desk, is now
> >sitting ON desk)
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> >Forward all replies to
> (E-Mail Removed) Remove the
> >'nospam'
> >
> >
> >.
> >