Slow network speed

**serverguy** · #21 10th May 2008, 15:42

Hmmm. I don't see anything particular there.

On the laptop, do you have a torrent downloader installed? I ask because there is a process running called RedSwoosh and I saw a few pointers on Google that it could cause problems.

I think you have Commodo Firewall installed on both machines. Can you try disabling it and then seeing what the network speeds are like.

Otherwise, I don't think there is anything wrong. It is running as fast as it is going to unfortunately. Unless of course it used to run faster.

**philthomas** · #22 10th May 2008, 16:50

OK ... silly question but ........ did you actually time how long the transfer took ? or did you just assume the time quoted was accurate ?

**rbscooby** · #23 12th May 2008, 00:26

ok yes i do have a torrent downloader, but i dont have it active recently as it causes my broadband to slow down to a snail.

the ethernet transfer of the 910mb file was roughly 2 mins
but by wireless it took more like 15 then 26

**serverguy** · #24 12th May 2008, 10:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbscooby

ok yes i do have a torrent downloader, but i dont have it active recently as it causes my broadband to slow down to a snail.

the ethernet transfer of the 910mb file was roughly 2 mins
but by wireless it took more like 15 then 26

To be honest, whilst it is slow, those speeds are probably not that far off.

Especially for earlier G technologies.

How are you testing this? Are the laptop and router right next to each other? Or are there any walls in the way?

One thing you might want to check is on your wireless router you might be able to find a setting determining what wireless speed it uses. (A, B, G etc.)

It may be set to automatic or something but change it to G. Then try again.

Sometimes if you have an older device on your network it will default to the older devices maximum.

**rbscooby** · #25 12th May 2008, 14:04

ok yes the laptop and wireless router was right next to each other, i bought the adaptor and router less then a year ago, and it is set to G i have checked earlier

**Mike0001** · #26 12th May 2008, 14:26

Just timed my G network and it took 6 minutes to transfer a 46Mb file.

**Mike0001** · #27 12th May 2008, 14:37

Changed from AES to TKIP and it went down to 20 seconds!

So there is the solution! Change to WPA2 Personal using TKIP.

**serverguy** · #28 12th May 2008, 15:15

Yes... but no.

You should be using WPA as it is much more secure (WEP is basically no security at all..)

WPA2 is just newer and more secure than WPA.

But, technically AES should be faster than TKIP because TKIP requires more processing from the computer and the poor router with next to no memory.

So, WPA with AES should give you the most chance of fast transfer speeds.

But, as Mike noticed, it isn't always the case..

Why big networks use RADIUS and $$$ routers

**rbscooby** · #29 13th May 2008, 01:39

ok yes i am using a WPA, i was not using WPA2 because my brother's psp does not always support it, the TKIP was the only selection i could choose with WPA, so i should change it WPA2, which will only give me the option of AES, so i should select WPA2.

**Mike0001** · #30 13th May 2008, 05:27

I checked the same file transferring under WPA AES and it took 35sec to transfer.

Switched back to WPA2 AES and got 35 seconds. So what is going on here? Yesterday I had extremely slow transfers with the same algorithm!

Mind you, yesterday my daughter was also online and I am not sure what she is using.

Just tried again and it is dead slow again!