wireless vs wired

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by dewback, Feb 23, 2011.

  1. dewback

    dewback Corporal

    In early 2010 I bought a dell studio laptop connected to a linksys e3000 router connected to a docis 3.0 cable modem. When I run wireless I get speeds around 50mbps (at speedtest.net) when I connect through ethernet cat6 cables I get speeds ranging from 60 60 65 mbps. My wireless card is intel 5100 agn which should be able to reach higher speeds I think, but lags behind what I get wired. Any suggestions on how to increase speed on the wireless end? I am running windows 7 premium 64 bit.
     
    dewback, Feb 23, 2011
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Wireless tends to never reach the same speeds as ethernet and rarely hits the top speed of what the router can cope with, in some part depends on the wireless hardware and driver in your PC. 50mb/s I would be very very happy with and is a good speed for wireless, but if you wish to try things then I would be suggesting...

    Make sure you are fully upto date with Windows udpates and the SP1 update may or may not help.

    Make sure your routers firmware is the latest, same as your Wireless driver on the PC is the latest.

    Is your distance to wifi router variable or constant as this can affect speeds as the freedom of wifi also adds issues as in electromagnetic interfearance, wifi signal dropout due to surroundings (thicker walls etc).


    One thing to try also is that as some routers are fussy with Windows autotuning feature in Vista/7 that disabling this can help.

    From an elevated CMD prompt (CMD > right click and Run as Administrator) then type...
    netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled and hit enter, reboot and try again, can re-emable it if not change with the command of netsh interface tcp set global autotuningl=normal
     
    DavidGP, Feb 23, 2011
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  3. dewback

    dewback Corporal

    Thanks for the suggestions David! I have all of those in place all ready. I am happy with the speed. If that is all I can get wireless... so be it. It is just I thought wireless N was supposed to be capable of more. I know you sacrafice speed for convience with wireless. My next question is... is that typical of users here? Does your wireless to wired speed vary by that much? It is not a problem, but I just want all the speed from the isp that I am paying for... which is a lot.
     
    dewback, Feb 23, 2011
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