wifi speed

[mpaque]

Is there a utility that will display the connection speed on my Ambicom wifi card? I'm using this in an HP 2215 w/o any problems except that it seems verrrrrryyyyy slooowwww. Last night I copied some MP3's from my home PC to my 2215 via wifi through a Netgear AP and it took about 1 hour to copy 70mb. Does this sound right?

[dammitjim]

I have a sandisk SDIO Wi-Fi card and it seems very slow as well at my house using an AP by D-Link. I think I got a little better speed doing Ad-Hoc with my laptop and a D-Link card, but still. It seems significantly slower than my regular wireless LAN connection between my AP and PCMCIA Wi-Fi card (both D-Link). I can even watch movies on my laptop out of my server that is wired to the AP. I haven't had that luck with even listening to songs on my h2215.
Anyone else?
A good software I'm using is: Cirond WiNc to see connectivity properties and finding hotspots.

[PetiteFlower]

If you're using Activesync to transfer the files wirelessly, then yes it makes sense, activesync takes FOREVER to copy files even wired so I can't imagine wireless would be any better.

Copying directly without activesync though, I don't know.

[mpaque]

No I wasn't using Activesync. I connected directly to my PC through File Explorer, i.e. \\pcname\sharename. Speeds seem to be fine when I connect to this same PC using my laptop and PC Wifi card. It only seems to be slow when I use my Ambicom CF card and my PPC. Maybe the drivers for this card aren't quite ready for prime time yet?

[Mark_Venture]

Is there a utility that will display the connection speed on my Ambicom wifi card? I'm using this in an HP 2215 w/o any problems except that it seems verrrrrryyyyy slooowwww. Last night I copied some MP3's from my home PC to my 2215 via wifi through a Netgear AP and it took about 1 hour to copy 70mb. Does this sound right?
I too have an iPAQ 2215 and Ambicom card, but I have a Linksys WRT54G setup as an access point stacked to my Linksys BEFSR41.

I notice its slow copying files from my lan to the SD memory card in my ipaq wirelessly. (BizDev's netUse to map to a share on the desktop, then use file explorer on the iPAQ to copy the files.) I haven't tried copying to main memory...

But then again, its SLOW copying to that same SD mem card in a SanDisk 6-in-1 USB 2.0 memory card reader attached to the USB 2.0 port on my PC's mother board. So in my case its not the Ambicom card. :(

Btw, I've used the Ambicom's WM2003/.Net version 1.0 and 1.5 drivers from their web site site as well as the Senao drivers. Both about the same speed.

[sumfunny]

I know compact flash are rates at around 2.5mb/sec which is 1/4 of the theoretical capacity of wifi theres only so much a handheld can handel it just isnt fast enoguh to process the 11mb/s unlike a full fledge notebook

[Crazie.Eddie]

Keep in mind that your Wi-Fi connection may have dropped. Typically, the first machine on a Wi-Fi network will grab the 11MB connection, all others will be at 5 or 1. Also, they may be interference...If you are using 802.11B, then maybe other devices such as cordless phones operating at 2.4Ghz or even a Microwave can also interfere. Don't forget about the distance and also what's in between the walls.