Slow Wireless-B Connection? (aspire 5672)

First of all, you need to realize that any wireless throughput is theoretical and actually speeds you see are going to fluctuate. The fastest speed that can be obtained through wireless "B" is 11Mbps. Another important factor is how close or far way from the router you are and what obstacles are in the "line of sight" path to the router.

When connected to the wireless device via an Ethernet cable, your speed will be 100Mbps (assuming that your NIC card is set up correctly). This is the reason that you get the 100-250KB/sec reading.

From the points listed above, you can that the "wired" transfer speeds will be much faster as opposed to the wireless connection.

Hope this helps clear up some of the confusion you’re having.

Don't rule out incompatibility issues. A few years ago, I had a Cisco super duper fancy wireless access point (runnning 802.11b) and 2 other access points in other parts of the house and with the highly regarded Buffalo wireless PCMCIA 802.11b card in my laptop, the speeds crawled between the Cisco and Buffalo even when I was 1 ft away. Didn't have any issues with any other card/access point combos. So I ended up buying difference PCMCI cards at the time (still have 2 sealed in the box).

Stranger things have happened.

Try different combos at someone else's house.

Actually the Linksys router is probably ok...it just the technology of the "B" band.

The fact that you are connecting to the router with the wireless card would rule out a problem with the wireless NIC.

The prices on "G" routers have dropped to the point of the old "B' routers in their hey day. If your able, I would suggest updating your router. Depending on where you look, you can get a decent router, (NetGear or LinkSys) for around $40.00.

There are several factors that can cause these types of problems. Even though you may 20ft away from the router, the routers output at 20ft might be at its limit. How old is the router? Did you ever flash the routers BIOS with newer firmware?

I for example, live in a two story house, with poured concrete floors. When down stairs I would get decent connection speeds, but would lose connections frequently. I then upgraded the stock antenna to a higher dbi one. Performance increases were ten fold, with no drop outs.

Another factor is the wifi card in the computer. Even though you are connected, if the wifi card is not up to snuff, you'll have problems with connections and connection speeds. Not every wifi card manufacture uses the same components and/or technology and sometimes these cards can be hit or miss.

Read the reviews from some magazines and they almost always test the wifi. Some cards have excellent ratings from 5 to 50 ft, others don’t. If nothing else, try updating your wifi card to the latest drivers as provided by the manufacturer.

Remember that wifi is a radio signal and devices such as cordless phones and microwaves, just to name a couple, can interfere with the reception. If you have any neighbors that are using wifi, and are on the same channel as you, connection problems could exist. Try changing the routers channel from the default of 6, to say 11 or 1.

As I said previously, there are several factors that can influence the wifi signal, and I have only touched an a few. Hopefully, these will help you.

Sounds about right

From what you state to be your continuous download speed your internet connection appears to be about 1 Mbit/Sec which would provide approx 100KByte/Sec constant rate throughput on the directly wired desktop. I suspect that you have some sort of security turned on for the wireless portion of your router which will use 40-50% of your wireles bandwidth for encryption overhead - which would equate to (with a typical router) approx 55% usable bandwidth. In your case, with a 55KByte/sec (550 Kbit/sec) usable throughput, you're right about on the money - it's working as it should.

did you enable the wireless booster in the empowering options? on your 5672 I have found it makes my machine connect more quickly to networks.

Start / Programs / Empowering Technology / Acer ePerformance Mangement / ePerformance

I know lots of people immediately remove this, but like with the toshiba stuff, the hardware is often altered slightly to take advantage of these applications.
i.e. their own firmware

Good Luck
btw I have wireless 802-11.g and get the same rate on my laptop as my desktop