Hello, I set up a home network using a linksys wireless router and a dsl modem. Everything works fine with internet access, speed is fine, no hang ups etc. My proplem is sharing files between computers on the workgroup. All computers are running winxp pro and are over 2ghz and at least 512 ram. I have the computers hard wired to the router. For example if I am transfering a 150MB image file it might take 30 minutes or more, but if I was downloading a 50mb file from say microsoft it only takes a 3-4 minutes. I would think that if the computers are hard wired to the computer it should be transfering data at 100mbs which i think would be 5 mega bytes /sec, which should be ~ 300 mega bytes per minute. I know that's just max speed but it's not even close. I've checked the cable and it's fine. Any other suggestions? Thanks, vifa

To correct a typo - I ment if the computers are hard wired to the router.

Hey vifa, I have this same exact problem, at least it sounds like it. I'd be interested to know if it was indeed the exact same issue. For me, if I'm on computer A, and I browse to computer B, which has the file I want to cut or copy to computer A, and I open a direcoty which has large files (avi), my network traffic starts going like crazy, and I lose connection every 5 seconds or so. To transfer a 600meg file, explorer says it will take ~90 minutes. I don't even have to copy the file across the network to lose connection, just hovering the mouse over the file, kills my network. If I download a file from microsoft, which has a lot of bandwidth, I level off at ~280Kbps over the same connection. If you could, will you test and see if your connection drops by just highlighting or hovering over the large file. I'm not sure what this will do for me, other then proving that it isn't my wireless NICs that is causing the problem. I haven't tested it yet due to time constraints, but I imagine that if I set up an ftp server, and pulled the file that way over the same connection, it would be fine, no connection drops. I think this has something to do with explorer, but haven't had time to prove it just yet. Just incase our problem is identical, maybe we could help each other out, by eliminating some prossible causes. I am not using a hardware router, 2000 server does my routing. I am not running in infrastructure, I'm in ad-hoc mode. I've tried with and without encryption. My NICs are D-Link DWL-G520's. I've disable the wireless zero configuration service. I've installed the micorsoft wireless update rollout. I've adjusted the preamble on the NICs to long only, and long and short.

I have a BEFW11S4 v.2 Linksys wireless router/4-port switch. I just called linksys support and if your thinking about ever doing that don't. Their response "we don't support file sharing you would have to call somebody like microsoft" Hmm let me see... you sell tons of routers/switches/hubs etc but you don't support file sharing. I guess file sharing isn't in their response manual. What a joke! Anyway i did a little test: I transfered a 208mb directory with multiple size files from the wireless computer to each of the wired computers and it took ~ 7.5 minutes each. The time was real close. Then I transfered the same directory from one wired computer to the other and it took ~14 minutes almost twice as long. Wired should be faster right 10mbs vs 100mbs??? Another thing i noticed when transfering from the wireless to either of the wired computers that the traffic lights were pretty much continuous. But when going from one wired computer to the other there would be traffic for a couple seconds and then it would stop for a couple seconds on then on and off and so on and so on. vifa

Try getting rid of QoS Packet Scheduler it limits the Bandwidth of file sharing. Check this link out it may help: http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/windows_XP/6800.psc.html

One more site to lookat: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,828067,00.asp

Have you tried hardcoding the nic speed to see if there is any difference .