Realworld Wireless speed and errors

I've got 4 1130ag's, three at one site and one at another.
I get just about 2Mbps over them. I've limited the AP's to only use G speeds per Cisco's docs, I've verified the ethernet port on the 3560's they plug into, they transfer at real 100Mbps Lan speeds, easily over 2Mbps :) Speakeasy test on my laptops over the wire is 8Mbps, over the AP's it's usually only 1.5Mbps.
I should get more than this with B! I'm using linksys wpc54gs ver 2 and Belking F5D7011 cards on around 20 laptops. Speed tests were taken on each individual AP with others powered off and no traffic to the two test machines (1 server and 1 laptop). The linksys card is slightly slower so I think it may be a driver/XP issue. I've downloaded all the latest drivers to no avail.
I get a LOT of errors in the ap stats screens:
Retries: 10408
Packets With One Retry: 6728
Packets With More Than One Retry: 1734
Duplicate Frames: 564
CRC Errors: 122
This is over 3 speakeasy tests and one 33MB file transfer test with the Belkin. There are no other wireless devices, phones, etc in the same band. Open air from about 10-15 feet from the AP's
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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>> What you said
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what a waste of money sending an engineer to "fix a fault" which does not exist. Precisely.
In my original BE post to which Tom so helpfully responded, I began: It seems to me that DLM is an excellent concept with a highly flawed implementation, both technically and administratively. I think that sending out an engineer to fix an obviously flawed profile is the main example of an adminastrative flaw. I understand (I can't remember source, maybe Tom again) that they are sometimes relaxing the requirement for a visit before reset.
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6. Turn on the Keyboard to send out a signal and once it sees it select it to be paired to the computer by typing in the 8 digit number into the wireless keyboard and hit ENTER/RETURN.
7. To see if everything was added go to Devices and Printers and see if they were added to the list.
8. Shutdown Windows 7 and Restart using Mac OSX. If you adjusted the Boot Camp settings while in Windows 7 you will see a Boot Camp icon in the system tray located at the bottom right of the screen. From here you can logoff and reboot in Mac OSX. If you don't, do a RESTART and hold the Option key down after hearing the GONG and select the Mac HD option while logging in. Now it's time to add back the wireless mouse and keyboard to be recognized by your Mac.
9. Go to System Preferences – Internet and Wireless – Bluetooth
10. Hit the “+” button to launch the Bluetooth Setup Assistant to find the devices sending out the signal.
11. Highlight the device found and hit “Continue”
12. Do this for both the keyboard and mouse. You will be prompted to type in the 8 digit code into the wireless keyboard in order to pair it with your computer.
13. Click on the pinwheel next to the “-“ sign to rename the wireless devices if you'd like.
I then logged back into Windows 7 to see if the mouse and keyboard were functional and had no problems. For some reason, Windows has problems pairing bluetooth devices that are already paired under a Mac OSX. Many people have updated Boot Camp, yet still were not able to pair their wireless devices because they didn't break the Bluetooth connection on the Mac side first. So both steps are necessary (1) Updating to at least Boot Camp 3.1 if not 3.2 and (2) Deleting the Wireless mouse and keyboard link while running Mac OSX before trying to pair them in a Windows OS.

I found the answers by trial and errors.
@ is obtained by CTRL + OPT + 2
# is obtained by CTRL + OPT + 3
(without shift or caps lock)
These two signs are critical and I fail to understand why this information is not readily available from the help function or from the Apple support.
Jean-Philippe

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