my home wifi network maxes out at 1 MB/s

[dr.kevin]

I've used linksys B/G and my isp's 2wire router B/G.

My laptops all have atheros ar9285 wifi-n chips.

No matter how close the pc's are, I can't get past 1 MB/s over wifi while transferring files between them. Both netbios and ftp max out at 1MB/s.

But downloading directly from the internet, all pc's can get way over 1 MB/s no problem.

Where's the bottleneck? or do the atheros chips all act this shitty with uploads?

 

[mi7chy]

There's a throughput penalty when you enable mixed B and G mode. If you don't have any B clients force G only which should get you a little over 2Mbyte/s.

 

[klank]

The bottleneck is the shitty linksys or ISP router/modem.

Upgrade to something with 11n support. Disable 11b and 11g if you have no devices running either.

 

[Mackintire]

Wireless G is 54 Mbps running WPA protocol you get roughtly 22Mbps of usable throughput.

22Mbps / 8 = 2.75MB/s MAX.

Turn off Wireless B and use WPA encryption and you'll see 2.75 MB/s

If you have Wireless B enabled and even 1 wireless B type device ALL devices are slowed down to 12Mbps = 1.5MB/s MAX


Update everything to wireless N. Turn off B and G, use WPA2 encryption and you should see 8-11 MB/s in 20Mhz channel width mode.