Slow file transfer speeds across 2 pc's on home network!!!

I have a netgear wrt624 108 mbps router, and a netgear 108 mbps laptop pcmia card, but I never get the 108 mbps connection, even with the laptop and the router in the same room.

Most people's connection rate for 802.11G would be 20mbps or so, not the 54 promised by 802.11G. I would expect maybe 1.5 to 2.0 Mbytes per sec on a good day, but sometimes my wireless connection slowed right down. I think this is due to the many other wireless networks near to me.

Check what other wireless networks the upstairs machine can see. If there are many then that may be the reason for the slow speeds. You should also check that the router is set to support 802.11G. If its set to 802.11B then it will only get 1 to 11 mbps. It may make sense to set the router to only support 802.11G, I think having it support both B and G slows down the clients with a 802.11G connection.

You should also ensure that the USB adapter is connected straight into the machine upstairs (i.e. not through a USB hub). Check that the USB port used is a USB 2.0 port, and not 1.1. If you are still having problems I would try disconnecting any unneeded USB devices on the machine.

My area got so "crowded" (about 10 - 15 other home wireless networks)and the wireless conections so bad that I've disabled the wireless on the wrt624 and just connect via a network lead.

Rob Murphy

Your never gonna get the advertised 54 or 108mb/s, even if your computer is showing a 54 or 108 connection your not really getting that speed. Your lucky if you get half those speeds in real world situations, 20mb/s is common with 54g Another thing to consider is that differant brands dont always work well together, if you want the full speed your wireless router is capable of make sure you use the wireless card thats made for yourrouter, mixing and matching almost always results in less performance. Also if you have a computer with a 54g card and one with a 108g card on the same network you will onlyconnect at the speed of the slowest client. And finally just like other computer hardware there are both good and bad performing routers out there. If you want good performance go for one of the good performing routers such as the Dlink dir655, Netgear Rangemax240...etc chec out Toms Router charts for performance comaprisons.

What is the OS you are you using?

Vista sucks for file transfer from PC to PC through wireless.

Also with out looking at your router config we cant really help unless somebody had that router infront of them.

Well, i have the same problem between 1 desktop and 1 laptop, both with vista home premium 64 bit. File transfert between the 2 is very slow. My router is a dlink 614+. My wireless card on the desktop is a xtreme n pci-e. The laptop is a toshiba with a biult in wireless card. Both have good performance on internet. The router is 802.11b

Is there to speed up file transfert ?

This thread is 2009

Even though this is an old post, it was one of the first results google gave me when I searched. I was basically having the same problems as the original poster when trying to transfer speeds from one PC to another on a simple Windows XP network: I was only getting speeds up to 70 KB/s, when I know it can do more. You may ask how I know, well there are actually three PCs on this network. Let's say PC-A has the data, which are video files since it's an HTPC. PC-B and PC-A had no problems transferring this data at full speed, in the MB/s. When I connected PC-C to the network, I was not able to see those transfer speeds.

Here's how I resolved the issue: I changed the speed/duplex settings for the network adapter on PC-C. Apparently it was in a "Force 100 Full Duplex" mode. I simply changed the value to "Full autonegotiate".

If you are wondering how to access these settings, you have a couple of ways. First, open the Device Manager and find your network adapter. Right click on it and go to Properties. Then go to the Advanced tab. Finally select the "speed/duplex settings", change it's value to the right, and hit ok.

Another way to get there is to go to the Control Panel and open up Network Connections. Right click on the network adapter in question and go to properties. Under the first tab, click on the Configure button, and the rest is the same as before.

Hope this works for others and saves some time.

I have, of course, a similar problem. I have a Linksys WRT54GX2 router that is connected to the WAN port of a Thecus NAS and also connected by cat5e cable to my PC. Internet download is great but anytime I need to send data upstream it's capped at about 1.3 mbps...so moving files onto or off of the NAS takes way too long. My guess is that the bottleneck seems to be anytime data is sent upstream to the router.

The only thing that has made a difference was switching from auto negotiate to 100 mbps half duplex...that increased the speed from .9 mbps to the current 1.3 mbps.

So yes, I suppose the first 2009 post could have started a new thread...but nevertheless, it appears some people have the same problem here in 2009 regardless of if the original poster was in 2007