I'm having some speed issues with my Linksys WRT54GX v2 router/switch, and any help would be greatly appreciated (and then some).
I have six desktop computers with Linksys WMP54GX PCI cards connected to a WRT54GX v2 router. However, the maximum speed of computer-to-computer transfers are slower than I would like.
In Task Manager, the best speed I can get is 7% of the 108 Mbit connection. I realize that getting 100% of the 108 is impossible, but other benchmarks I've seen would lead me to believe that something is wrong (Tom's had at least 70%, I believe). The odd thing is that the speed reading clearly plateaus at its top speed. For reference, I'm simply copying large files from one Windows share to another (again, from one computer to another on the local area network). I would expect some overhead in this case, but not this much.
I've experimented at a variety of distances (5, 20, and 100 feet) with both obstructed and unobstructed views of the router. Regardless, I still get the same results.
Signal strength has always been 90+%, so I don't think that's the issue. Also, there are no other devices hooked up to the router (only those six computers). I've tried the above tests with only two of the computers connected to the router, and I still get the same results.
Any ideas?
-Ron G