wireless N lan speed slow

[goldensausage]

hope this is the right place to post.

according to wikipedia, wireless N is supposed to have a theoretical speed of 600Mb/s.

i dont know why, but when im transferring a while from a wireless N laptop to a desktop PC connected to my wireless N router using ethernet, i only get ~1.5-2 MB/s. Ethernet is ofc faster than wireless so the bottleneck is not my desktop.

If the theoretical speed is 600Mb/s, then i should get around 75MB/s. I do that many things can throttle the speed, such as current throughput and using WEP security (which i am) which can throttle down to 54Mb/s, but even then i should be getting higher speeds. My total throughput is very low as im usually the only person in the household using the connection, and there r no active wireless G devices to burden the router.

what speeds do u guys achieve?

 

[thiggins]

5 Ways To Fix Slow 802.11n Speed

 

[goldensausage]

i read this...thats how i found out abt the throttling scenarios. but even after reading this, it still doesnt add up for me because its just too slow to be true thats y i posted here. it was that useful page that brought me to this forum anyways

 

[stevech]

hope this is the right place to post.

according to wikipedia, wireless N is supposed to have a theoretical speed of 600Mb/s.

i dont know why, but when im transferring a while from a wireless N laptop to a desktop PC connected to my wireless N router using ethernet, i only get ~1.5-2 MB/s. Ethernet is ofc faster than wireless so the bottleneck is not my desktop.

If the theoretical speed is 600Mb/s, then i should get around 75MB/s. I do that many things can throttle the speed, such as current throughput and using WEP security (which i am) which can throttle down to 54Mb/s, but even then i should be getting higher speeds. My total throughput is very low as im usually the only person in the household using the connection, and there r no active wireless G devices to burden the router.

what speeds do u guys achieve?

WiFi 802.11's air link bit rates are the burst rates of data frames. The net yield of this, after WiFi overhead, and another 15% or so for IP and TCP overhead, is about 60% of the air link burst rate, absent errors and competition for air time with neighbors.