Wireless Speed much less than my wired?

[M. Malone]

Hey everyone, I have a cable connection, on my wired desktop I usually get:
5.6 Mbps Down
2.4 Mbps Up

but when I'm on my wireless intel iMac, I get:
1.5 Mbps down
1.2 Mbps up

my iMac is not more than 20 feet on the same floor as my Linksys Wireless B, from what I know Wireless B goes up to 11 Mbps, which means there's something wrong here, can somebody help? thanks

 

[t1rider321]

Hey everyone, I have a cable connection, on my wired desktop I usually get:
5.6 Mbps Down
2.4 Mbps Up

but when I'm on my wireless intel iMac, I get:
1.5 Mbps down
1.2 Mbps up

my iMac is not more than 20 feet on the same floor as my Linksys Wireless B, from what I know Wireless B goes up to 11 Mbps, which means there's something wrong here, can somebody help? thanks

did you download 10.4.6? i heard it fixes the intel aiport problems

 

[mad jew]

Also, the 11Mbps is the theoretical maximum speed that could be attained at the smallest possible distance from the router.

 

[blodwyn]

Hey everyone, I have a cable connection, on my wired desktop I usually get:
5.6 Mbps Down
2.4 Mbps Up

but when I'm on my wireless intel iMac, I get:
1.5 Mbps down
1.2 Mbps up

my iMac is not more than 20 feet on the same floor as my Linksys Wireless B, from what I know Wireless B goes up to 11 Mbps, which means there's something wrong here, can somebody help? thanks

Do you have WEP enabled?

 

[clykins90]

The Intel Macs have problems with Airport (i was fortunate). Make sure the latest update is installed properly. If it is, time for a trip to the Genius Bar

 

[M. Malone]

The Intel Macs have problems with Airport (i was fortunate). Make sure the latest update is installed properly. If it is, time for a trip to the Genius Bar

oh no...you may be right, I'm typing this from my PowerBook, suddenly my iMac is too slow to even download the MacRumors page, and I ran the test on both machines, this test
http://ciseweb100.cise-nsf.gov:7123/

can somebody confirm this test is legit? well on my PowerBook I got 3.9 down and 2.1 up, with my iMac, just now I get 170kbps!! is taking it to the apple store the only way out? I really don't wanna carry this thing all the way over there...thanks

 

[M. Malone]

The Intel Macs have problems with Airport (i was fortunate). Make sure the latest update is installed properly. If it is, time for a trip to the Genius Bar

it is an intel Airport issue, now here's the sad part, I never noticed a problem till monday, after I installed the new update that was supposed to fix this problem that some people had...I'm calling Apple tomorrow, first it was the keyboard dying on me, then this, and I just got it on Friday, I'm considering returning it and waiting for a Rev B, although it's a built to order, so I'll see, I'll let you all know...