I just discovered that my WIFI downloads are much slower than mu
ethernet downloads. Two very similar Emachines desptops with 2.6 gHz
CPUs, ethernet PC with 1 Gig RAM and the WiFi PC has 2 gigs of RAM.
The reported wireless connections speed is "excellent". The 2 PCS are
about 15 feet apart, on the same floor. The WRT54GS is new, replacing
a BEFSR41 WAP54G combination. The slow WIFI may have been an issue
before, not sure...my son used to always complain that his PC (the
wifi one) was slower than in the days when it too was ethernet but I
thought it was his imagination. Today I downloaded a file that seemed
slow, I downloaded it again on the ethernet PC and it was 3-4 times
faster. I repeated the test with other files from different sites,
same outcome.

Any ideas? Time to go back to Ethernet ?

Andy