Incredibly slow file transfer

[macf13nd]

Hi

At home my wireless network doesn't quite seem up to scratch - both my main box and my laptop work well independently of one another, but file transfer between the two and streaming is painfully slow: I would expect at least 1mb/s, but it's no more than 100kb/s. My internet connection is ten times that for ****'s sake!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[Tristan]

You might need to do some RWIN tweaking.

[Roger H. Veteran]

you checked stuff like pings and firewalls? Try turning off the firewall completely and see if that changes anything.

[macf13nd]

You might need to do some RWIN tweaking.

can you extrapolate?

you checked stuff like pings and firewalls? Try turning off the firewall completely and see if that changes anything.

That sounds possible actually -

I'm having some problems with Comodo on my main computer - for example: If I connect to my wireless network with it fully enabled, it will connect to the Local Network, but not get as far as Local & Internet (I don't like the way the Vista UI approaches networking at the best of times, but that's irrelevant).

I have to disable the firewall, allow it to connect to the Internet, and then re-enable. This would indicate that there is something wrong with its settings anyway.

I am considering using Kaspersky. So, in the interim I can check whether the firewall is preventing things I suppose.

Any thoughts on the above?

Thanks so far. :)

[+BudMan MVC]

You might want to consider why you even think you need a software firewall.. Your behind a NAT router -- is the other macchine your trying copy files to hostile?

Are there other machines on the wireless network that you should treat as hostile? If not --- what exactly do you feel your firewall is providing you? Do you control software outbound access? Your nat router will not let any inbound traffic talk to your machine unless it has been requested by your machine -- so what exactly is the software firewall doing other than causing you grief?