Infinity Drops by 20 megs on WiFi but almost 40meg...

Hey,
my Infinity Drops by 20 megs on WiFi but almost 40megs on Ethernet - I have tried all permutations at resolving this including borrowing a friends infinity hub with the same result.
Any ideas to resolve this?
My WiFi Drivers are up to date.
Ricardo.

Hi
By 'drops' do you mean 'downloads'.
40meg on ethernet but 20meg on wireless seems to me almost certain to be your wireless card EITHER being 'g' rather than 'n' OR being 'n' but only having one data stream (some of the cheaper non-branded cards are like this - even in branded laptops). Other than that, I don't think anything is wrong.
All of these would have the effect of limiting the wireless speed to around 20meg or so in the real world. I just tested mine with a few g cards and n cards with one stream and could only get a maximum of 21-22meg. By using an n card with more streams I get the full 40meg.
I'd look for a cheap replacement wireless card. Look out for those that say 'up to 300meg' on them. Like all things wireless it won't really do 300meg, but it will do the 40 meg of your infinity. If you're using a laptop, most let you change the wireless card (CARE - HP and Sony often dont), OR you can get an 'up to 300meg' micro dongle to put in a usb socket. They work out about £15-£20 on Amazon...
One other option would be to use homeplugs (but obviously they aren't wireless!)
Hope this helps
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