Slow wireless, fast ethernet

The wireless on my mbp is really slow most of the times -- about 3Mbps. I get 13 Mbps via ethernet. (speedtest.net)
A windows machine connected to the same network gets 13 Mbps on wireless as well as ethernet. Even my iphone gets 12 Mbps.
I guess this rules out problems with the router (DLink DI-524 with WEP).
Tried OpenDNS servers, no change. Also tried disabling file/internet sharing, Ipv6.
Any pointers are appreciated!

Welcome to the discussion area!
Rather than a long series of "try this" and "try that", it might be a good idea to have the device checked out at an Apple store for proper operation.
If the wireless is not performing up to spec, then a new device may prove to be the answer. If the AirPort Extreme works well at the Apple store, then the next thing you might want to check is the wireless card in your computer.
If you find that everything works OK on hardware, then you can start to explore different locations for the router in your home and check for possible wireless interference issues with other networks, cordless phones, or security systems.

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I realize this question in some form or another has been posted ad nauseum, so I'll apologize in advance.
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I realize this question in some form or another has been posted ad nauseum, so I'll apologize in advance.
I'm running a 500 GB Time Capsule. I recently got the bright idea to extend the network and bought a couple of new AirPort Express (11n models). I pulled an old Netgear router out of the mix and switched the network so the TC would serve as the router and the Expresses would extend the network. I reset the TC and started from scratch. I even tried forcing the 5Ghz setting to see if that would speed things up.
Before I even get to configure the Expresses, I'm running into a VERY slow wireless problem with the TC. My MacPro plugged into the TC with ethernet is moving around 8Mbps online. My iPad and MBP are lucky to get 700Kbps. The iPad and MBP are in the same room as the TC, less than 10 feet away from the unit, so walls, etc. are not an issue. Strangely, according to Speedtest.net, I get about 1.2Mbps UPLOAD speed on the iPad while only getting around 700Kbps download. That strikes me as very unusual.
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One Solution for Fixing Slow Wireless Connection

Quick and easy solution for slow wireless connection.
My hardwired PC connection was working fine over FIOS, but my wireless connection through my Macbook Pro was soooo slowwww, although the machine itself was fine. Pages would take forever to appear, then finally sort of pop up. Didn't really seem to be a Mac problem, just a connection problem.
After searching forever to find a fix, I found a quick & easy solution that works at least for now: change your DNS address.
I'm not a techie so I don't know ALL of the implications of doing this, but in desperation, it has worked for me and I think at no risk to your network or machine. Changing my DNS address has made my connection blazing fast and relieved many weeks of frustration.
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(Specific for Mac): http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=358919
Maybe this is a commonly-known fix but it wasn't for me, so hopefully it will help some of the other less-than-technical people out there. Good luck!

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Sitting side-by-side, my MBA was averaging less than 1 Mb/s on downloads, and my MBP more than 9 Mb/s. The MBP was fully ten times faster. As you can imagine, viewing videos was a ragged, unpleasant experience on the MBA.
I'm using an early wireless-N Belkin router, so it didn't show up on airport utility, thus i couldn't change channels there as proposed on this thread. But to isolate the problem, at my brother's suggestion i took both computers to a Starbucks, and observed the two computers downloading there at equal speeds. So clearly the problem wasn't with my MBA, but my router.
I went to Belkin's website to figure out how to change channels on the router, and checked for firmware updates. There was one, so i figured I'd do that before attacking the "changing channels" task. I upgraded the firmware, and with that simple fix my MBA is happily zipping along now with >9 Mb/s downloads, same as the MBP. More than TEN times faster than before. My iPhone download speeds increased more than tenfold, too.
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I picked up a new IBM ThinkPad T60P (Wide) running Vista Business, and I am experiencing the same problems with an extremely slow wireless connection. I get the same slow performance on the wireless network in my office as in my home.
The second I disable the wireless and plug in the cable directly to the router (ZyXeL) everything runs perfectly. I also tested connecting an Apple AirPort to the router (via cable) and connected directly to the AirPort as an access point instead of connecting to my normal wireless network, and then everything was working just fine for some reason (almost as fast as when I connect directly to the router via cable)!
The really weird thing is that I get really quick download rates on at least one website (www.dailyrush.dk) where I can download files at 1.1 MB/s (I should have 15 mbit downstream). The web pages of that website still load pretty slow though when I'm browsing. Most other websites that I have tested load insanely slowly, both when I'm just browsing the pages and when I'm downloading files. For example a 1024 x 695 pixel JPG on Flickr.com might take several minutes to load, or simply time out. The Google front page sometimes takes 15 seconds to load.
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It also takes forever to connect to VPN, perhaps 15 or 20 seconds on the Vista laptop and no more than 2 seconds on the XP machine.
When I ping www.google.com in a command prompt I get some packet loss (between 25 and 100 %) but reasonable ping times averaging about 45ms which is the same as on my old laptop.
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Disabling security on the router entirely
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Changing the channel on the router (tried several available channels)
Switching between 802.11 a/b/g modes on the router
Booting up in safe mode (heard that worked for someone with a similar problem)
Updating the wireless adapter driver to the newest version
Installing all available updates from Windows Update
Moving my laptop really close to the router (duh)
Uninstalling MacAfee
Uninstalling Bullguard
Uninstalling a bunch of pre-installed IBM stuff
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I really hope that someone can help me out here ... I'm kind of running out of ideas :-( Thanks in advance.
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