Wireless Router speed question

I have a new laptop, Vostro 2510, and a WRT300N Linysys wireless
router. Connection used to show as 130Mbps until I installed a
security password. Now it shows a max of 54 Mbps. I see this as
correlated, but should this be expected? Thanks ...

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:15:49 -0800 (PST), Trekman
wrote:

I have a new laptop, Vostro 2510, and a WRT300N Linysys wireless
router. Connection used to show as 130Mbps until I installed a
security password. Now it shows a max of 54 Mbps. I see this as
correlated, but should this be expected? Thanks ...


My understanding is when you install a password, it will slow it down
but I don't know if it is that much. So in sum, I can't really answer
you, sorry. I can say that my near draft N router has wireless
connections to it of 54 Mbps (max) thru out my 2 story home.

130 Mbps is 16 MB/sec and 54 Mbps is 7 MB/sec.

Guys, what transfer rate do you really get (in MB/sec) when you transfer
about 100 MB (or more) of MP3 size files between two computers connected to
a router via wireless? It will be nothing like the theoretical figures.

Just time the transfer in seconds.

I experienced the same thing with a WRT350N. No idea if there is a
solution.

"Trekman" wrote in message
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I have a new laptop, Vostro 2510, and a WRT300N Linysys wireless
router. Connection used to show as 130Mbps until I installed a
security password. Now it shows a max of 54 Mbps. I see this as
correlated, but should this be expected? Thanks ...

"Trekman" wrote in message
...
I have a new laptop, Vostro 2510, and a WRT300N Linysys wireless
router. Connection used to show as 130Mbps until I installed a
security password. Now it shows a max of 54 Mbps. I see this as
correlated, but should this be expected? Thanks ...


So, the theory is that the encryption might be slowing the speeds or that
this might have something to do with with your encryption and draft-N ......
?

I thought he said he only added a password. Why would this slow the speed
? A password is not the same as invoking encryption, is it ??

James
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So, the theory is that the encryption might be slowing the speeds or that
this might have something to do with with your encryption and draft-N ......
?

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:19:02 -0500, "James" no
wrote:

I thought he said he only added a password. Why would this slow the speed
? A password is not the same as invoking encryption, is it ??

James

It is the same for the routers I've dealt with. I don't think I'd
feel too good about an unencrypted password that goes on line.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:41:02 GMT, "Brian K"
wrote:


130 Mbps is 16 MB/sec and 54 Mbps is 7 MB/sec.

Guys, what transfer rate do you really get (in MB/sec) when you transfer
about 100 MB (or more) of MP3 size files between two computers connected to
a router via wireless? It will be nothing like the theoretical figures.

Just time the transfer in seconds.


Brian, I can't recall my speed the last time I did something like this
(perhaps 2 yrs ago) but even if I did, it doesn't mean a lot because
the router, distance, walls, etc... could affect the transfer speed
for a wireless setup. Inotherwords I could do the same transfer but
change routers and get 2 different actual wireless speeds.

Once more, what would this have to do with the speed of the transmission ??

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It is the same for the routers I've dealt with. I don't think I'd
feel too good about an unencrypted password that goes on line.

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:40:24 -0500, "James" no
wrote:

Once more, what would this have to do with the speed of the transmission ??

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I don't know the theory behind it so Google is your best friend. I
just know it happens. My guess is that it has to do with more
overhead that the router has to deal with... sorta like a software
firewall comes to mind when it kicks in.