Hi,

I just upgraded from Charter's 3mb/sec plan to the 5mb/sec plan, but
I'm having some trouble. I can direct connect to the modem and get a
4.6 mb/s speed, but I'm getting very different speeds with my wireless
connections. My Mac laptop with a Wireless G card can pull around 3.8
mb/s. While my desktop (PC), which is sitting right next to the Mac,
and uses a wireless G USB, only gets around 1.5 mb/s. I tried my other
desktop in the room across the hall, which uses wireless B, and it,
too, gets about 1.5 mb/s. Strangely, I was getting 1.5 mb/s or so on
both the wireless G and the Wireless B desktops BEFORE I upgraded to
higher d/l rate plan through Charter.

My router, a Linksys WRT54G V4, is completely updated. I have it set
to send a mixed signal out, but even when I set it to only transmit
Wireless G (which renders one of my desktops useless), the wireless g
desktop still only gets 1.5 mb/s (Read: No change in speed). I even
tried changing the transmit rate on the router, setting it to "54mbps"
from "auto." Same deal.

I don't understand why the Mac has no problems in the speed tests, but
the desktop, sitting 6 inches from it, also with a Wireless G card,
can't pull in more than 1.5 mbps. What am I doing wrong? The way I
see it, it can't be the modem, since I can direct connect. And it
can't be the router, since the Mac gets 3.8 mb/s. That leaves the
wireless network cards, which are both up-to-date.

Anyway, I hope someone can shed some light on the subject...