Slow connection with 802.11g

Hello-

As part of my small business network at my house, I have a laptop with a
Linksys wireless G card, and I have a Linksys wireless bridge that it
connects through. My question, I always connect at 11 Mbps - I am expecting
54 Mbps, why the difference? There are no 802.11b devices in my network, and
my wired network connects at 100 Mbps.

Is there a setting or something that I'm missing?

Here is my network setup:

DSL Modem

Connected to Linksys DSL router with 4-port switch

A couple of computers plus another Linksys switch connected to this
router/switch

A couple of computers plus wireless bridge connected to switch

Laptop connects to network through bridge.

Please help - I bought this gear to get the faster connection.


Thanks

Doug Wells

..11g gives Theoretically 54Mbps! - you will never achieve this, however you
have PCs attached to your switch, they are sharing your resouce as well -
run something like NetPerSec and send some data (FTP) from each PC you will
see what you are getting

"Doug Wells" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E2Grb.140$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello-
>
> As part of my small business network at my house, I have a laptop with a
> Linksys wireless G card, and I have a Linksys wireless bridge that it
> connects through. My question, I always connect at 11 Mbps - I am
expecting
> 54 Mbps, why the difference? There are no 802.11b devices in my network,
and
> my wired network connects at 100 Mbps.
>
> Is there a setting or something that I'm missing?
>
> Here is my network setup:
>
> DSL Modem
>
> Connected to Linksys DSL router with 4-port switch
>
> A couple of computers plus another Linksys switch connected to this
> router/switch
>
> A couple of computers plus wireless bridge connected to switch
>
> Laptop connects to network through bridge.
>
> Please help - I bought this gear to get the faster connection.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug Wells
>
>
>

I'm still not entirely sure what you mean by "connects at 11Mbps" - is this
a throughput measurement from a file transfer or some tool, or is it the
nominal bitrate at which the laptop connects (the config utility should have
a box that says which of the rates was negotiated)?

I can tell you that the bridge cuts your maximum throughput in half. It is a
store-and-forward device. Every 802.11 frame from your laptop is completely
received into memory and then retransmitted, so every packet takes twice as
long to get from laptop to router and vice-versa.

So your max theoretical rate is 27Mbps, and could in reality be much lower.
For unbridged G, the real-world best-case TCP/IP throughputs are 18 - 24
Mbps. Applying those ratios, you could expect to get 8.5 - 12Mps max
throughput via the bridge.

"Doug Wells" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E2Grb.140$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello-
>
> As part of my small business network at my house, I have a laptop with a
> Linksys wireless G card, and I have a Linksys wireless bridge that it
> connects through. My question, I always connect at 11 Mbps - I am
expecting
> 54 Mbps, why the difference? There are no 802.11b devices in my network,
and
> my wired network connects at 100 Mbps.
>
> Is there a setting or something that I'm missing?
>
> Here is my network setup:
>
> DSL Modem
>
> Connected to Linksys DSL router with 4-port switch
>
> A couple of computers plus another Linksys switch connected to this
> router/switch
>
> A couple of computers plus wireless bridge connected to switch
>
> Laptop connects to network through bridge.
>
> Please help - I bought this gear to get the faster connection.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug Wells
>
>
>

Just occurred to me - what Linksys bridge are you using? If you're using a
WAP11 in wireless repeater mode, I think it supports only 802.11b. If
"connects at 11Mbps" means that it actually negotiates a nominal bitrate of
11, that suggests the you *do* have an 802.11b device in the mix. 802.11g
will drop down from 12 to 9 to 6, I believe.

"Doug Wells" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E2Grb.140$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello-
>
> As part of my small business network at my house, I have a laptop with a
> Linksys wireless G card, and I have a Linksys wireless bridge that it
> connects through. My question, I always connect at 11 Mbps - I am
expecting
> 54 Mbps, why the difference? There are no 802.11b devices in my network,
and
> my wired network connects at 100 Mbps.
>
> Is there a setting or something that I'm missing?
>
> Here is my network setup:
>
> DSL Modem
>
> Connected to Linksys DSL router with 4-port switch
>
> A couple of computers plus another Linksys switch connected to this
> router/switch
>
> A couple of computers plus wireless bridge connected to switch
>
> Laptop connects to network through bridge.
>
> Please help - I bought this gear to get the faster connection.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug Wells
>
>
>

Go into your router setup and there is a setting for "mixed or G only". Set
this to "G" only.
--
Dave G








"Doug Wells" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E2Grb.140$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello-
>
> As part of my small business network at my house, I have a laptop with a
> Linksys wireless G card, and I have a Linksys wireless bridge that it
> connects through. My question, I always connect at 11 Mbps - I am
expecting
> 54 Mbps, why the difference? There are no 802.11b devices in my network,
and
> my wired network connects at 100 Mbps.
>
> Is there a setting or something that I'm missing?
>
> Here is my network setup:
>
> DSL Modem
>
> Connected to Linksys DSL router with 4-port switch
>
> A couple of computers plus another Linksys switch connected to this
> router/switch
>
> A couple of computers plus wireless bridge connected to switch
>
> Laptop connects to network through bridge.
>
> Please help - I bought this gear to get the faster connection.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug Wells
>
>
>
>