Ungodly slow File Transfers with new Airport Extreme

[aviationwiz]

So I've been online for at least the past 3 hours trying to get this working. I recently picked up the new Gigabit Airport Extreme so I could have faster file transfers between computers on the network, and whenever I try and transfer a file from my Mac Pro to one of my Windows (one Vista, one XP) comps, it goes ungodly slow.

Now, my cables aren't Cat. 6, so that would explain part of it, but my transfers go at less than 1 mega*BYTE* per second, when it should really be going quite faster.

I tried using a startup item I found to set the ACK delay to 0, I tried an old program called "Broadband Optimizer", and I tried a hotfix to run on the Vista computer, all to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas to fix this?

Thanks!

 

[MAW]

forgive a noob's input, but i thought i read that if you have a computer in your network that's not compatable with the "n" draft that the whole network "throtles" back to whatever computer has the inferior 802.1 version.

 

[mad jew]

MAW is both handsome and correct.

 

[aviationwiz]

Well, I finally got it sorted out by manually changing my Ethernet settings for Speed and Duplex in System Prefs on the Mac Pro. What a long night.