WRT610N Mac & PC - 2mbps wireless LAN file transfer rates

Equipment:
Linksys WRT610N connected to Motorola SB5101 Cable Modem
MacPro Dual Quad Core 3.0GHz XEON with three Western Digital drives set up on RAID 0 using internal Airport 802.11N.
Dell Inspiron 2600 - piece of crap but still get it done with Linksys WPC600N wireless card.
Sony PS3 connected to WRT610N via ethernet cable
DirecTV HR20-100 DVR connected to WRT610N via ethernet cable
Problem is this:
Internet speeds are incredible. LAN speeds are awful.
I was transferring a 914MB folder from the Dell Laptop to my MacPro.
The transfer took 14 minutes. That averages a paltry 2 megabits per second.
The wireless card on the laptop shows around 130mbps with excellent connection strength. My MacPro also is excellent connection. I guess the laptop has a 5400rpm drive. I've been able to stream video to my PS3 from the laptop using my OLD wcg200.
Is there something I can do to speed up the LAN connection? I haven't tried to stream to my PS3 yet. The WCG200 that I had wasn't all that good so I replaced it with the WRT610N. I'm starting to regret my decision.
thank you in advance
WRT610N | WPC600N | Dell Inspiron 2600 -> Win XP | Mac Pro -> OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.4 & Win XP via Parallels

More testing... I built a crossover ethernet cable to directly connect the Dell to my MacPro. The LAN speed was 100mbit due to limitation of the Dell network adapter. Speeds were between 46 and 82mbps. MTU was 1500 MTU at 1300 and 1200 yielded no additional benefit. I disconnected the ethernet cables and went through the WRT610N using my Airport Wireless N and the WPC600N on the Dell. Speeds max'd out at 1 to 2mbps. I must say the Linksys WRT610N isn't playing fair...or am I missing something else in the mix?
WRT610N | WPC600N | Dell Inspiron 2600 -> Win XP | Mac Pro -> OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.4 & Win XP via Parallels

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I have a G3 iBook with an original Airport card, a Powerbook with an Airport Extreme card, and they both connect to an Airport Extreme Base Station in my house.
My question is, when I want to transfer files from the iBook to the Powerbook what's the best way? I've connected several ways, and it seems painfully slow (much slower than the iBook can even download files from the internet.)
The iBook gets handed out 10.0.1.2, so tired to connect that way (afp://10.0.1.2). Slow as molasses. I tried to connect to Drivename.local (that uses Appletalk protocol, right?). Slow as well.
Aside from hardwiring the two to each other, what's the fastest connection method? Are my expectations just too high?

Your expectations are just too high. For anything but occasional copying of small files between these two Macs, there is just no substitute for a hardwired ethernet connection.

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Thanks in advance for taking the time to consider this.
Our still photgraphic studio has a range of MACs all connected via a gigabit D-Link switch to a series of Buffalo NAS raids. Wiring is CAT5e, all devices have gigabit ethernet cards and the link lights on the switch suggest that all devices are connected at that speed.
We currently get file transfer rates of between 5 and 12 MB/s depending on network traffic.
We would like to upgrade our NAS to a NAS/SAN, preferably using the existing wiring (and avoid the expense of Fibrenet). 50 or 60MB/s would be great if possible.
Any ideas for a suitable archtecture and Hardware would be gratefully received. Cable lengths are a maximum of 30 metres.
Paul

I'm getting sustained speeds of 90-100 megabytes/second on a transfer across GigE from one mac to another, both working on high-capacity SATA drives.
It drops to ~65 megabytes per second if the source drive is my 2TB Firewire 800 external.
both rates are right on the real-world maximum for GigE and FW800 respectively, which is a great sign that nothing else is bottlenecking the transfer.
My experience with NAS boxes has been disappointing in the past, with transfer rates of 5-35 MB/sec - painfully slow for large files, which destroys the purpose of NAS for me, which is reasonably high-speed off-computer storage.
I'm MUCH happier, and didn't have to pay very much to set up a Mac with 4 SATA drives onboard, acting as a file server... I'm actually getting files FASTER than I am from a FW800 drive directly attached now.

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