speeding up G wireless laptop using an N wireless router

[saab123]

I just purchased a Linksys G wireless router WRT54G2 and notice that the speed of the transmission to my laptop ( which has a G card installed in it and is in the same room as the router) averages 18-24Mbps. If I were to get the Linksys N wireless router would my transmission speed increase even if I didn't purchase an N card for the laptop?

[guapo]

There is a great program that I use from time to time called TCPoptimizer. It's from speedguide.net and it's free. If you want to use it with Vista, there may be special instructions.

[Patrick]

The answer to your question is "no".

[cswalker]

Saab, The N router will broadcast its transmissions quicker, but it won’t help you, as your Laptop will still be stuck with its current speed. I would try and optimize your settings to get the full utilization out of both devices before upgrading. Before you do that though, does your internet connection run faster than 12Mbps? The G is rated for 54Mbps for routing data. So if you were transferring files between 2 machines connected to the wifi then you could transfer those files at 54mps in full duplex, but only if the NIC on those machines can do the same. So if you internet is. . . Say 1.5Mbps DSL. . . you’re not going to get anywhere near 54Mbps surfing.

[GroundZero3]

With 802.11G there is no such thing as "full duplex" 802.11N is the first of its kind to implement a send/receive capacity.

[cswalker]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GroundZero3

With 802.11G there is no such thing as "full duplex" 802.11N is the first of its kind to implement a send/receive capacity.

Thank you for the correction GZ

[saab123]

CS, thanks for the response. How would you optimize the g setting on the laptop?

[cswalker]

you wouldn't on the laptop. Unless you want to optimize your browser for surfing.
Dropping the MTU size can help prevent Congestion in which there might be a bottle neck from your ISP
also, make sure you're wireless is on the correct channel. I think 6 is the best, i could be wrong though.

[saab123]

CS, I actually changed the channel on the router from 6 to 10 and this sped up the transmission to 54Mps as other networks evidentally were using ch 6. What is MTU?

[GroundZero3]

The most successful channels for 802.11 is 1,6,11 You using 10 can actually cause more problems which i could spend about an hour on frequencies and channels. I think 6 is most soho equipment are set too. Using something like netstumber would tell you what people are using around you. I try to use 1 or 11 since most people dont mess with that stuff