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Originally Posted by brundles
In theory it should, but in practise it's often not the case.
If there are a lot of wireless networks near you, try and move to the least used channel (remembering the only fully seperate bands are 1, 6 and 11). The other thing to do is take a look around the house at what wireless equipment you have (phones, TV senders, etc) - if you've still got manuals, then maybe check the frequencies they run at and make sure there isn't an overlap. It can take a little bit of time but can make a difference.
Also, how many machines do you have sharing your wireless LAN? Remember that (best case) you're essentially looking at having half of the indicated bandwidth available and that divided among the machines connected. For example, if the adapter indicates it's connected at 54mbps then I'd only take 27 of that as maximum useful throughput. If you have 3 machines then that's a maximum of 9mbps per machine. This is all assuming perfect conditions of course!
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Thanks for that & also the responses by Southwell & Zeph.
There are other wireless networks in the area and I recently changed channels to escape interference - this worked fine and I was consistently getting 3.9Mb in the 'old' 4Mb days.
Yes I do have cordless phones (just changed these as well) so I will check. I am not far from the router, the room above, but obviously not in line of sight but no change there.
There is another PC on the network but it was not connected when I did the speed tests.
I have rechecked my settings and the router is set to G only. However, when looking at the NICs they offer me only 2 choices for Adhoc Wireless mode - B only or B/G mix. Both cards are Linksys PCI and one is only a few months old, they are set to B/G mix. Is there a possibility that the implied presence of a B device could slug the speed even if no such device is actually on the network?
Thanks again.