Problem with Linksys WRT54GX v2

I'm having some speed issues with my Linksys WRT54GX v2 router/switch,
and any help would be greatly appreciated (and then some).

I have six desktop computers with Linksys WMP54GX PCI cards connected
to a WRT54GX v2 router. However, the maximum speed of
computer-to-computer transfers are slower than I would like.

In Task Manager, the best speed I can get is 7% of the 108 Mbit
connection. I realize that getting 100% of the 108 is impossible, but
other benchmarks I've seen would lead me to believe that something is
wrong (Tom's had at least 70%, I believe). The odd thing is that the
speed reading clearly plateaus at its top speed. For reference, I'm
simply copying large files from one Windows share to another (again,
from one computer to another on the local area network). I would
expect some overhead in this case, but not this much.

I've experimented at a variety of distances (5, 20, and 100 feet) with
both obstructed and unobstructed views of the router. Regardless, I
still get the same results.

Signal strength has always been 90+%, so I don't think that's the
issue. Also, there are no other devices hooked up to the router (only
those six computers). I've tried the above tests with only two of the
computers connected to the router, and I still get the same results.

Any ideas?

-Ron G

On 21 Jun 2006 12:56:43 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote in
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>I'm having some speed issues with my Linksys WRT54GX v2 router/switch,
>and any help would be greatly appreciated (and then some).
>
>I have six desktop computers with Linksys WMP54GX PCI cards connected
>to a WRT54GX v2 router. However, the maximum speed of
>computer-to-computer transfers are slower than I would like.
>
>In Task Manager, the best speed I can get is 7% of the 108 Mbit
>connection. I realize that getting 100% of the 108 is impossible, but
>other benchmarks I've seen would lead me to believe that something is
>wrong (Tom's had at least 70%, I believe). The odd thing is that the
>speed reading clearly plateaus at its top speed. For reference, I'm
>simply copying large files from one Windows share to another (again,
>from one computer to another on the local area network). I would
>expect some overhead in this case, but not this much.
>
>I've experimented at a variety of distances (5, 20, and 100 feet) with
>both obstructed and unobstructed views of the router. Regardless, I
>still get the same results.
>
>Signal strength has always been 90+%, so I don't think that's the
>issue. Also, there are no other devices hooked up to the router (only
>those six computers). I've tried the above tests with only two of the
>computers connected to the router, and I still get the same results.
>
>Any ideas?

Wireless speed will always be (substantially) less than half the raw
speed, since only one wireless data transfer is possible at any given
time, and there are two wireless links involved when going wireless
computer to wireless computer through an access point.

Your throughput suggests that you raw speed is down around 22 Mbps,
possibly as a result of radio frequency interference. See Interference
in Wikis below.

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I'm having some speed issues with my Linksys WRT54GX v2 router/switch,
> and any help would be greatly appreciated (and then some).
>
> I have six desktop computers with Linksys WMP54GX PCI cards connected
> to a WRT54GX v2 router. However, the maximum speed of
> computer-to-computer transfers are slower than I would like.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Ron G

Got any cables? I had ethernet cards in my laptops, and used the ethernet
cards rather than wireless for tests, so with cables to the router (WRT is a
wap router combo), it uses a totally different part of the
computer/software/hardware/etc to connect.. Speed was fine hardwired, ergo I
knew absolutely it was the wireless that was a prob (in my case it was
interference from a cordless phone that knocked the speeds way down), from
another laptop, turned out there was firewall software active that bolluxed
<-- (tech term) it up...