Upgrading my home network to Gigabit Ethernet and Wireless-N turns out slower than before

Posted by Raheel Khan on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Raheel Khan
Published on 2012-10-19T04:55:05Z Indexed on 2012/10/19 5:07 UTC
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My home network has three desktops, three laptops and some NAS drives. All desktops and NAS drives support Gigabit LAN and all laptops support Wireless-N. I was running a 100 BaseT switch though.

I recently purchased a Gigabit Ethernet Switch and an Wireless-N ADSL Modem-Router.

After upgrading, I noticed that the wireless file transfer speeds from laptop-to-NAS and vice versa became terribly slow. Possibly even slower than before the upgrade. The transfer speeds from desktop-to-NAS (wired) have improved though.

As an example, copying a 50GB file from laptop-to-NAS was estimated at 15 hours!

Is there something I can do to improve this? Also, should I consider buying a dedicated wireless access point for speed rather than using the Wireless modem-router?

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