http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21163370 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:42:24 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:42:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21224193 anon : The problem with wireless is you may get momentary interruptions especially if you have other devices connecting wirelessly which could trip up large transfer if your just doing it through Windoz explorer.

I would try connect wired or transfer using a method that can recover from momentary interruptions like using a FTP client.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21224193 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:13:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21163980 CylonRed : Enable SSID broadcasting - it does not help at all for security and see if that helps.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21163980 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:28:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21163370 databird : I am using a WRT54GL to connect two computers together in a home network as follows:

desktop ~ ethernet ~ WRT54GL ~ 802.11g ~ notebook

I set it to transfer a huge chunk of files (~44GB) from the desktop to the notebook overnight.

In the morning, I found it to have stopped at around 70%, and Task Manager (which was open) was frozen and would not come back. I had to literally Restart the notebook to get things working again, since Windows Explorer was also frozen. It cited something along the lines of a lost network connection. I tried to reconnect but, again, Windows Explorer had crashed.

What most likely caused this?

Could it be a faulty router? (too big/too much of a transfer?)
Or is it just a software (OS) issue?

---

Some details:

• The wireless signal has no SSID broadcast, is set to g-only, and the notebook receives an average 100% signal at a speed of >= 48Mbps.
• The transfer was running at ~2MB/s (or around 16Mb/s). This strikes me as slow, but it's more than likely just Vista and its typically slow network transfer speed.
• The router has the latest Linksys firmware.
• The desktop is running XP 32-b SP2, and the notebook Vista Business 32-b SP1.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21163370 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:36 EDT