I am not getting bits and bytes mixed up. The movie should be what, 300kilobytes/second, my file transfer was 800kilobytes/second, so there’s a lot of my theoretical 16megabyes/s gone missing. I mean I know it’s only theoretical but I’d expect more than 15% of the reported bandwidth being usable.
There’s a bottleneck somewhere, and I wonder if it’s the CPU on the router..? Or, it COULD be the other two network clients being in G mode. I didn’t specifically check them although they are supposed to be multi-mode and hence select the highest available.
The Media Centre Extender is a Linksys DMA2100 which is slow and clunky – I could overlook this but the fact that it hardly supports any codecs is bloody annoying 🙁 Just going to have to try and download as much as I can, which to be honest is a lot less convenient.
Also check which encryption protocol you’re using. uise AES/CCMP over TKIP otherwise you’re connection will revert to g levels of bandwidth.
Right, will see about checking this (if I can – didn’t see a setting for it but will look again). Thanks 🙂
I’ve found though that if the wifi link speed varies, Windows does report it when you open up task manager.