I've had my network set-up for a while now. My XP machine is connected to my gateway and the ME machine has a wireless connection to the gateway. I can "see" each computer fine and the internet works fine from both machines. The file download on both machines from the internet seems fine. The problem seems to be copying files from one machine to the other. My XP connection is 100Mbps and the wireless connection is 11Mbps but I am getting nowhere near 11Mbps when copying files. It will take a couple of hours to copy a 700Mb file where I think it should take a handful of minutes. Somebody mentioned packet size settings but I don't know where to set this, or if its a complete non-starter. Any ideas anyone?

couple hours for a 700m file seems a bit slow but not horrible.... is that the actual time it takes or the time it is telling it will take? it probably wont take that long but it will take a while

which way is it slow from the 100 meg into the wireless connection . This I can see as you are trying to push a large pipe down a small pipe . These low end routers don't have a lot of buffers in them and you end up with a lot of retransmissions . You could try setting up your nic card for 10/half instead of 100/full or auto and see if this improves things at all . This won't slow down your internet connection as most are 2 meg or less to begin with .

Cheers guys. I do not have an exact time for the 700Mb file (I got bored and was not at machine when it finished) but it was between 1.5 and 2hrs. I will have a look and try the nic card settings. I'll post my findings here.

I think problem in the Wireless connection. Bad signal, too many electroniic noise...

I've been having some transfer issues so a web search led me here. Running a network over a Linksys BEFW11S4. One desktop runs WinME and is plugged straight in, another desktop runs Linux Mandrake and is plugged straight in, the laptop runs WinXP and is typically wireless. Transferring from ME to XP is painfully slow. To see if it was the wireless causing the issue I plugged it into the router and it remained slow. I've also found that it's only when the data is being sent from a Windows machine. Transferring from my Linux machine to either of the others goes fast. Transferring from either of them to Linux goes slow, and from windows to windows is even slower. So there has to be an issue in my windows settings somewhere I'm just not sure where.

I'm having the same problem. I have 2 machines with win2k (100Mb on both) and one machine with linux (10Mb NIC). The switch is 100Mb. To copy a file with 4.25M from one of the win2k, it takes 10sec. From the other one it takes serveral minutes. The NIC are equal on both machines and the configurations are the same. Can someone help ?!