How much performance degradation to expect Wired to Wireless

The WAP11 is 802.11b. With an 11Mbit/sec connection, you should get about 4.5 to 6.0 Mbits/sec thruput. Something is seriously broken at

Current firmware version is 1.4i.1.

With or without XP SP2? It probably has nothing to do with the problem, but it helps to know the details. I don't have any idea why it's so slow. Take the laptop to a wireless free hot spot and see if it works normally (and at normal speed). If so, the WAP11v1.1 might sick.

Thanks. WEP is not enabled because I use VPNs (which have IPSec encryption turned on) mostly and I have MAC Address filtering turned on as well. I am on channel 10 and its interesting idea to try and change channels - i have not tried that. I have updated all of my Wireless NIC drivers and I will try switching channels

mhicaoidh wrote:

thanks. good suggestions on things to try and i will go at it. BTW running SP2

Taking a moment's reflection, Vish mused: | | Is that what I should expect in terms of performance degradation or is | there something else going on with my network

Do you have encryption enabled? You should, and it won't hurt throughput that much. More importantly, what channel are you on? Try 1, 6, and 11 ... I got lousy throughput on channel 11 (due to two other networks that were hiding their SSIDs). I switched to channel 1, and get nearly the same throughput from my laptop as I do with my wired desktop.