Need help speeding up 11N throughput

[joelogic]

I had to move my desktop and can only use wifi instead of my wired gigabit connection.

What info do you need to help me speed up my internet connection?

I have a wireless N router, desktop has a N card, several G devices on network. Lan speed test shows 2.78 Mbps to my NAS. http://www.totusoft.com/lanspeed.html

Speakeasy speed test shows 2.67Mbps to most servers. I was getting 30+Mbps from my wired connection.

What am I missing?

TIA

[billofrights]

Most routers throttle down to the slowest device on the network, so likely those G devices are dragging down your speed.

[joelogic]

Down to 2Mb? Turn Iphones off?

[billofrights]

Worth trying. It may not be the issue, but I know with 802.11 a/b/g routers, having one a/b device would drag your g speeds down. Not sure if that ever changed with newer routers.

[stilly]

Would not surprise me, but I would not think of that with newer routers. Why even bother advertising them as being fast if they would do that.

HOWEVER, check the router settings too though because I think (and this fits with what YOU said) many also have settings to make them only G or only N so I guess that would cut out the slower ones and only keep the routers at top speed. This would explain why Apple suggests that you set routers to use the 5Ghz spectrum when setting them up for icraps on large scale deployment at schools. Perhaps to have the best speeds you should maintain NEW equipment at 5Ghz or 802.11n instead of allowing the 2.4Ghz connections as well. Have seperate wifi routers for the slower stuff. That would allow you to be able to serve 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz folks and maintain maximum speed.

I hope I got that right cause that would make sense to me.

[wheels]

Would be an easy test - disable support for non "n" devices, see if it speeds up. If it does get a second cheapy router for the non "n" devices.

[catmman]

Upgrade firmware on wireless card and tweak settings on it is about all you can do.

[the86d]

802.11n