Wireless vs Wired

[sahellis]

Here's my problem. Wireless I get 7MB or so download from the internet. Wired I get 48MB or so. Where are the settings that I can tweak to make the wireless download faster. For Windowz I can tweak the rwin and things of that nature and have done so, but on my Macbook (white) I do not know where to tweak. I also have an older Macbook Pro 17" A1229 with the identical issue. Running OSX 10.6.7
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Speeds attached.
Thanks

 

[Intell]

What kind of wireless router do you have? If its a G one, then those speeds are the fastest you can get.

 

[sahellis]

7MB is the fastest I'm going to get from G? G is rated at 54MB. I know that's not what you actually get but I know I should be getting more than 7MB from my Metro E when connected to wireless.

 

[Intell]

Its rated for 54 Megabits. Which equates to about 7 Megabytes.

 

[sahellis]

I'm having trouble swallowing that as I've seen faster speed on my PC with wireless. I've seen it up to 25MB. There has to be some TCP/IP stuff on the Mac that is throttling it down.

 

[vistadude]

There's not much you can do except buy a better wireless router and better wireless card. Wifi is much slower than ethernet, even though the rated speed is similar.

 

[TheMacBookPro]

Its rated for 54 Megabits. Which equates to about 7 Megabytes.

That test is in Mbps not MBps. He should theoretically be able to get up to 54Mbps on that test over Wireless G.

 

[Psychomacuser]

Wireless will always suffer over ethernet or wired.. Wired just works and doesn't require much to get it going. Wireless has problems and isn't beneficial in all areas.