Where's the bottleneck?

[Toxic Tom]

So I'm transferring some files wirelessly between my computers using the windows homegroup thingy but the speeds are very slow...

 

 

I'm using wifi on both ends, from my desktop with usb wifi dongle to laptop with wireless network adapter built in, using a siemens gigaset se572 router. I'd love to make this a little faster!

 

[flibberdipper]

So I'm transferring some files wirelessly between my computers using the windows homegroup thingy but the speeds are very slow...

 

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I'm using wifi on both ends, from my desktop with usb wifi dongle to laptop with wireless network adapter built in, using a siemens gigaset se572 router. I'd love to make this a little faster!

That might be your problem. Those things suck, 99 chances out of 100.

[Rorgash]

unless you have a AC dual band Asus one

[Toxic Tom]

I've got one of these

 

It's a netgear dual band N one

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

So I'm transferring some files wirelessly between my computers using the windows homegroup thingy but the speeds are very slow...

 

Speed.png

 

I'm using wifi on both ends, from my desktop with usb wifi dongle to laptop with wireless network adapter built in, using a siemens gigaset se572 router. I'd love to make this a little faster!

[Toxic Tom]

Does your PC have an i5 CPU? Then it's physically impossible for you to have any bottleneck of any kind, because i5s don't bottleneck and anyone who says otherwise obviously knows nothing about computers.

 

#noonegotthatjoke

 

 

AMD FTW!

 

 

 

So I'm transferring some files wirelessly between my computers using the windows homegroup thingy but the speeds are very slow...

 

Speed.png

 

I'm using wifi on both ends, from my desktop with usb wifi dongle to laptop with wireless network adapter built in, using a siemens gigaset se572 router. I'd love to make this a little faster!

 

 

The maximum speed of wireless N is 300mbps, I'm barely hitting 8

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

AMD FTW!

 

 

 

 

The maximum speed of wireless N is 300mbps, I'm barely hitting 8

It is half duplex, and the 300mbps is shared between all nodes on that access point/channel. It is also effected by interference, and objects that block the signal.

 

300mbps is its theoretical maximum. You will probably never get those sorts of speeds in the real world.

[Altecice]

As said above 300mbps is the maximum theoretical bandwidth. This number does not include any other encapsulation that is required for frames of data to be spent over the air. Your data is a small part of a rather large packet that wastes bandwidth. Not to mention the collisions in the air (look up CSMA/CA). Plus the USB dongles are the issue here. never ever use them.

 

You will be lucky if you hit half of that speed as true goodput.

[Toxic Tom]

So to up my speeds I need a better network adapter? Could you suggest me one?