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Stuart · 07-04-2006, 10:44

Bear in mind that the only time you will get 125 meg is in absolutely perfect conditions.

I have a Linksys WRT54G router, and a Belkin wireless card. I have never got the full 54mbps from it. Most of the time, it manages 30. Similar situation to you, except I am less than two metres away fromt the router (but still in another room).

There are many reasons for this. Wireless connections at the 2.4 GHz wavelength (used by many routers) are particulary susceptible to interference from buildings for one. At some channels, they can suffer from interferance from household appliances (particulary those that have large motors, or draw a lot of current). It's also possible that any routers in the neighbourhood are interfering.

Also, that 125mbps (or any quote maximum network speed) assumes that you have perfect conditions, and also that there are no network control signals (such as TCP/IP packet headers), and these can take a significant amount of bandwidth.

You can't do anything about the control signals (they are all needed), but you can try manually changing the wireless channel on your router, which may improve things a bit.

07-04-2006, 10:44	#2
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: 125mbps router help Bear in mind that the only time you will get 125 meg is in absolutely perfect conditions. I have a Linksys WRT54G router, and a Belkin wireless card. I have never got the full 54mbps from it. Most of the time, it manages 30. Similar situation to you, except I am less than two metres away fromt the router (but still in another room). There are many reasons for this. Wireless connections at the 2.4 GHz wavelength (used by many routers) are particulary susceptible to interference from buildings for one. At some channels, they can suffer from interferance from household appliances (particulary those that have large motors, or draw a lot of current). It's also possible that any routers in the neighbourhood are interfering. Also, that 125mbps (or any quote maximum network speed) assumes that you have perfect conditions, and also that there are no network control signals (such as TCP/IP packet headers), and these can take a significant amount of bandwidth. You can't do anything about the control signals (they are all needed), but you can try manually changing the wireless channel on your router, which may improve things a bit.