WindowsXP networking

[wei,shuang]

Greetings!

I use a wireless gateway to connect a WindowsXP machine and a Windows98
laptop to the internet. Of course I have a home network behind the gateway.
The WindowsXP to the gateway is a wired connection, the Windows98 to the
gateway is a wireless connection.

The interesting things are:
1. The copy-and-paste in the Windows Explorer does not allow me to copy a
100M bytes file from one machine to the other. I have to setup ftp server
and use ftp to transfer file

2. I am using 802.11b wireless, coping a 100M file between the 2 windows
machines (no other application running, no internet traffic) takes longer
than downloading a 120M file from the internet. But with the same ftp client
application, the speed meter shows 30kbytes per second when transfer file
between windows machines; and 12kbytes per second when downloading file from
the internet.

Any advices?

 

[Gerry]

I've had this same issue. From what I have been able to
find out (through websites,research)it's an issue with
encryption enabled on the wireless router side. I am
assuming that you have encryption enabled on your router
and pc's. Temporarily disable your internet connection
(turn off your modem)and disable your encryption in the
wireless router and see if that will help.
Sending data encrypted across a wireless network does slow
down the transfer rates. Good luck.