Slow network speed

**serverguy** · #31 13th May 2008, 13:59

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Originally Posted by Mike0001

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!

Were you in the same room in the same place?

Or was there a plane passing overhead

Wireless is just luck I think! But mines working well so not going to go fiddling with it.

**Mike0001** · #32 14th May 2008, 02:25

Yep, same place, just seconds later! Nobody else here, just me transferring from here to a fileserver directly connected to the router.

**serverguy** · #33 14th May 2008, 15:05

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Originally Posted by Mike0001

Yep, same place, just seconds later! Nobody else here, just me transferring from here to a fileserver directly connected to the router.

Strange.

Well, I think I spoke to soon as my network took a complete flop last night.

My Smoothwall died

Now I am back till the cruddy BTHomeHub till I have time to fix it.

**Mike0001** · #34 15th May 2008, 02:33

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Originally Posted by serverguy

Strange.

Well, I think I spoke to soon as my network took a complete flop last night.

My Smoothwall died

Now I am back till the cruddy BTHomeHub till I have time to fix it.

Have fun with the BT HH! Mine is still in its box! They tried to send me another one this year but I refused. Not enough storage space.

**rbscooby** · #35 15th May 2008, 04:28

so we have now pin pointed all of this down to just luck, if you get a fast transfer speed when using wireless your in luck?

**serverguy** · #36 15th May 2008, 13:10

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Originally Posted by rbscooby

so we have now pin pointed all of this down to just luck, if you get a fast transfer speed when using wireless your in luck?

Unfortunately it seems that way.

You will have more chance of getting the 'luck' if you went with a Draft N router and wireless cards which can offer higher transfer speeds and more reliability in connection.

Or look at Powerline networking. Or better still, run some wires

On another note, my Smoothwall is alive once again

Somehow the PPPoE database got corrupted and it couldn't send the password to the router. I am happy now!

**rbscooby** · #37 16th May 2008, 01:26

hummm draft N seems very expensive at the moment, and im confused how powerline works, is it all circuits in the house, or just on a single circuit? also wouldnt there be a chance of my network leaking out through the mains?

i sit everywhere with my laptop around the house, so i dont think running wires would be an option

**Mike0001** · #38 16th May 2008, 09:05

Yes, I don't understand how powerline fails to put the whole city online either! It seems to work between circuits, though I am not sure why the instructions say one circuit only. We have circuit breakers, though, not fuses, could that be it?

I can't even understand the instructions for that applet that comes with it! You can change the password on each unit away from the default, giving some security.

**philthomas** · #39 16th May 2008, 09:17

Last time I checked it out, folks were saying their neighbours could see their Network, but there is security software that comes with it, has to be installed on each PC that uses the Network.

All sounded a bit "iffy" to me !!

**serverguy** · #40 16th May 2008, 10:07

If you work all around your house, a better wireless solution would be best. They are coming down in price gradually.

Powerline won't let everyone on your network if set up properly. I think it works a bit like wireless security, with passwords etc but I have no first hand experience.

It is meant to be much more secure than wireless networking anyway.