[Sunnywootxp]

HI

At my main desktop the speed is 100.0 Mbps but my wireless laptop its 54.0 Mbps they both use the same wireless modem but why is my wireless laptop speed is 54.0 Mbps can it be faster and change it too 100.0?
Also if you guys know any tips how can I make my wireless laptop speed faster please tell me .
Thanks a lot

[Scleros]

Your laptop's wireless adapter may not be capable of anything faster than 54 Mbps (802.11G). If so, you would need to replace the adapter with another one that is technology compatible with your wireless modem (802.11pre-n?), probably by the same manufacturer, to get over 54 Mbps.

I also feel compelled to point out that your Internet connection is likely 1/36 or less as fast as your laptop's wireless (1.5 Mbps / 54 Mbps), so unless you are transferring huge files between your laptop and desktop all day long or plan to invite 100 friends over with their laptops for a gaming party, you will see no real benefit of upgrading to 100 Mbps on the laptop.

P.S. Please don't double post.

[Sunnywootxp]

Your laptop's wireless adapter may not be capable of anything faster than 54 Mbps (802.11G). If so, you would need to replace the adapter with another one that is technology compatible with your wireless modem (802.11pre-n?), probably by the same manufacturer, to get over 54 Mbps.

I also feel compelled to point out that your Internet connection is likely 1/36 or less as fast as your laptop's wireless (1.5 Mbps / 54 Mbps), so unless you are transferring huge files between your laptop and desktop all day long or plan to invite 100 friends over with their laptops for a gaming party, you will see no real benefit of upgrading to 100 Mbps on the laptop.

P.S. Please don't double post.

Well I usually download movies and torrents using my laptop so I can plug it in and watch it at my TV... my desktop don't have that option and the line isn't long enough... well with54.0 Mbps is there a way to download torrents as fast as my desktop or speed up laptop

[Scleros]

Software configurations being equal, any downloads should be the same speed unless your Internet connection is faster than 54 Mbps, or your laptop's hard drive cannot write the data as fast as it's being downloaded.

What sort of performance difference are we talking about?

[KISS]

Well, maybe 80% of 54 Mbps. The other 20% is overhead. But your right, the smallest pipe wins.

Desktops and laptops are not the same by any means. The disk drive speed is usually 7400 rather than 5400 RPM. Processor speed may be different and a host of other things.

Also Windows, is crippled (I know XP is). It can't download faster than about 15 Mbps without some tweaks. With tweaks I got 36 Mbps on an essentially 100 Mbps local infrastructure running on essentially infinite bandwidth.

[Sunnywootxp]

Well, maybe 80% of 54 Mbps. The other 20% is overhead. But your right, the smallest pipe wins.

Desktops and laptops are not the same by any means. The disk drive speed is usually 7400 rather than 5400 RPM. Processor speed may be different and a host of other things.

Also Windows, is crippled (I know XP is). It can't download faster than about 15 Mbps without some tweaks. With tweaks I got 36 Mbps on an essentially 100 Mbps local infrastructure running on essentially infinite bandwidth.

What happen if there a way to add the 20% so it will overhead(overheat?) what will happen if my laptop overheat?

[Sunnywootxp]

Software configurations being equal, any downloads should be the same speed unless your Internet connection is faster than 54 Mbps, or your laptop's hard drive cannot write the data as fast as it's being downloaded.

What sort of performance difference are we talking about?

Well I want my internet connection to be the same speed as my desktop my laptop uses the same wireless modem as my desktop so why can't they be the same speed also my desktop is way older than my laptop and the downloading speed and torrent is faster than my laptop... (that really sucks) (laugh) :)

[KISS]

Overhead: It cost's information to transmit information. An old example, to transmit 8 bits serially, it required 1 start bit, and 1 stop bit, thus for 8 data bits, 2 are wasted or overhead.

You cannot achieve 10 Mbps of real information. 20% is used to created headers, and stuff necessary to transmit the information.

[Scleros]

I think the overhead discussion, while true, is confusing the OP and moot anyway as the relative overhead on both the laptop and the desktop should be the same unless the MTU size has been tweaked significantly.

Sunny... to determine why one computer is faster than the other, you would have to do some testing by downloading the same file on both machines in exactly the same manner and at the same time of day and post numbers and hardware specifications. However, given your other posts regarding modem issues, proxy/IP changes, registry fixes, hard drive replacements, blue screen of death errors, and other hardware upgrade discussions, I'm wondering if your machines are all that healthy and working properly to begin with.