wireless network speeds

[sath]

HI

i have been having some problems with my wireless network file transfer speed. i eventually realised that this was was greatly owing to poor signal. i moved the laptop to 'excellent' signal range. the speed increased about 8 fold. now the wireless network on my pc (have a G router) is capable of a maximum 54Mbps, with receiving and sending it boils down tp 27Mbps one way. consider the overheads etc. thus a im left with say for argument's sake 22Mbps transper one way. this translates to 2.6MBps transfer. The best i get with my laptop next to my router is about 1.5MBps. according to my reading my speed of 1.5MBps is reasonable, even good. but my concern/question is what happened to each MB per second? basically i would appreciate it if someone could exlain why this happens.

second ques: i read that NETbeui has high overheads. should i uninstall this protocol? when does one need it for home networking purposes. Thanks to all the great minds that take time to entertain my questions.

sath

[prx984]

Well for you first question, I can kind of answer it.

On my wireless network in my house, my router is capable of 11mbps, unfortunately, I get about 2mbps at most. I think that this is just due to the way the information is being sent. The maximum speed (802.11b is 11mbps, 802.11g is 54mbps, and so on) is achieved in ideal conditions.

ie) the best signal, no encryption (yes that does slow it down, I have noticed), minimal amounts of computers on the network, probably just 2, and it may even be in ad-hoc mode. Try connecting the two computers together in ad-hoc mode and I think you will be surprised in the difference in speed.

[gamehead200]

ie) the best signal, no encryption (yes that does slow it down, I have noticed), minimal amounts of computers on the network, probably just 2, and it may even be in ad-hoc mode. Try connecting the two computers together in ad-hoc mode and I think you will be surprised in the difference in speed.

Having a strong signal doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have the fastest speed. There might be interference while transferring data and such. Also, encryption doesn't really slow down your transfer speed unless you have a slow computer which is unable to encrypt/decrypt fast enough.