PC vs Mac dl speeds on Linksys

Hi
My provider recently upgraded to provide download speeds up to 16Mbps. I have a Linksys G Router (WRT54G) serving three PC and two macs. I am seeing throughput on the PCs averaging around >8Mbps and occasionally in excess of 12Mbps; however, my Mac G5 Dual 2.5, never gets above 5Mbps, and my G4 TiBook hovers around 3.5Mbps. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
John

So if I format my 5G ipod for my office PC, Can I take my ipod home and add music and video files from my itunes on my imac at home?
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I have seen you in quite a few of these discussions, and most of the time you don't answer the question that was asked
You're more than welcome to review the 2000+ posts I have made over the last 2 years. You probably should if you are going to suggest that MOST of my posts are wasted space.
Feel free to ignore my posts in the future if you don't like the way I deliver my responses, or the the content of my contributions. I have no desire to start or participate in a flame war with anyone.
All you usually offer is some diatribe about how everyone else is wrong and how they shouldn't complain
I won't argue with you there. Feel free to consider me arrogant, but most of the time I am correct. As for complaining... yeah, I do think people shouldn't do it. It's pointless and gets no results. Complaining on a public forum is juvenile to me. In fact, it violates the Terms of Use for these forums to come here and complain, but that's another issue altogether.
but if you're gonna pick apart my last post to try and start an argument, please move on to another discussion.
I was merely clarifying your response. My apologies if the tone of my response suggested otherwise. It was not my intention to "pick you apart".
Have a pleasant day.

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iWeb offers try WYSIWYG page, which is cool, but if you get away from the standard websafe fonts, your site will be a bunch of fat PNGs and not HTML text, since the text fields will all turn into images. I went to a iWeb-created site recently that had two screens worth of text that iWeb had converted to a PNG. The text on the page took forever to download since it was a 650K image.
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There are other things that can be done to shrink site size and speed up loading. Basics, like limiting most pages to one screen, using a basic font like Verdana, and keeping images to small screen sizes. Also importing photo albums and images for blogs through iPhoto's button keeps them all as JPEGS. Movies and music are a really killer too, since iWeb loads those cool QT frames. When you have more than one per page, loading time can take forever.
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Slow Internet Speed on Linksys router

I have an ibook that I use for work and when I am at work the inter speed is just fine (we're on an Airport). When I take it home and try to get on the net it is very slow. The crazy thing is, we have an Imac at home and connect via wreless to it and have no problems what so ever. Have any suggestions?

Mass market routers like Linksys are not very efficient with high speed broadband. I really don't think there's much you can do to improve the Linksys performance.
Just to be sure its the router you might want to check your cable modem signal strength; and the connectors from the street to your cable modem. Sometimes a bad splitter can cause very bad signal strength. You might want to test your speed by hooking up your iBook directly to the cable modem without a router. Run a speed test from somewhere like http://speakeasy.net. Be sure to pick a test location close to your home. If you get really fast speeds without the router than with the router then you know its the Linksys.
I had similar problems with Linksys. I upgraded it with the dd-wrt firmware. This improved reliability but not performance. You might want to buy a ZyXEL router which is very fast and very efficient. Also, its much more reliable than your Linksys router.

Solution to low download/upload speed on Linksys E900

I lost almost 2 days and nights searching to solve this problem. I pay for a 50 Mbps connection using PPPoE. When i put the cable directly into the computer, i could reach speeds of 7.5 - 8.5 MBps download within the network. However, when plugged in the router, on LAN from router i would barely get 4.7 MBps and on wi-fi about 4. Not to moention that on www.speedtest.net i would have less then 30 Mbps upload speed, and when i put the cable directly into computer, i would get speeds aroung 70Mbps. The problem is not that this router cant handle PPPoE or such thing (explanation read on somewhere on this forum) or that the router cant handle those speeds or some another stupid (defending Linksys) explanation. The problem lies within the firmware of this router. I also tried the LiveSupport but to no avail, reflashing with the same version of flash, getting the same speeds. Lost one hour there. The solution is to upgrade to Tomato custom firmware from Shibby. Get the E900 version from here http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26RT-N/build5x-115-EN/Linksys%20E-series/, and flash it from Administration>>Upgrade Firmware. Before and after the flash, do the so called 30-30-30 reset (just check for it on youtube). I configured the wireless on 40Mhz Channel Width and Short Preamble. And that's it. Now i get 7.5 - 8.5 MBps speeds from LAN router, and on wi fi i got speeds up to 7MB. Thats aproximately 40% gains in terms of speeds, so it definitely worths it. Plus you get some pretty options, especially on QoS. Linksys should spend more time offering a better support for firmware, rather then selling devices that the user cant take full advantage of their hardware properties. I hope this post helps everybody who got this problem

Up higher in that post is some speed test results regarding a wireless N comparison between the TP-Link and EA3500. At those speeds I don't think the internet connection is the bottle neck. How do those wireless speed compare to your router Tomato speeds?
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