300mb/s router- only 2.4mb/s actual??

There are SO many variables with wireless...

Speed drops off with distance from router after about 6 feet.
Speed drops off dramatically with walls or other obstructions.
Speed drops off in the presense of other 2.4 GHz noise. Other routers, micro wave ovens etc.
And finally manufacturers, ahem, streach the truth. 300Mbps may be the peak theoretical but only if you have an N adapter and an N router within 10 feet of each other in a completely shielded RF cage :) If there is even ONE other wifi hotspot in your area speed will be dropped from 300 theoretical peak to 50 theoretical peak right there (by "law").

Download a wifi signal scanner program for your computer (or phone!) and first find out what other people are using in your area. Make sure that your router is not set to the same channel as 3 other people close to you.

If you only have a G adapter in your computer then 50 Mbps is the absolute max and typically expect to see half that under good conditions. Less if other routers in the area, less if going through walls, less if 100 feet away, less if bad antenna positions, etc...

If you have a smartphone with wifi, one of those Wifi analysis apps can be really great at setting up and testing signal strength and avoiding the neighbors wifi devices.

Believe it or not 3 feet may be a little close

Move to atleast 6-8 feet foor best signal.

Another thing to try is wiring both to the back of the wifi router as a test, see what the wired speeds are for your test.

Also I want to make sure that we are using "b" and "B" correctly. The speed on the wifi router is given in "Mbps" or mega bits per second. When you say "3 Mbps" you meant bits right? Because if you meant bytes, 3 "MBps" would be 24 Mbps which would be about right for G wifi speeds...

Well basically all networking speeds are listed in megabits or "Mbps". 100 Mb or 1Gb etc.

but whatever program you are using to display the speed of your transfers could likely be telling you megabytes per second. Whould be displayed like "2.7MBps" with a capital B. Since there are 8 bits in a byte, you would multiply an MBps value by 8 to get the Mbps value. :)

So it all depends on what your speed test is saying... sometimes they are in Mbps or Kbps and sometimes they can be in MBps or KBps.

Tomrdiedrich said:

I tried the ethernet directly to router from both PCs and I got max 8.2 mb/s. So I guess it is not that far behind from what richyrichuk said. For some reason I thought it should be faster. but now that we are talking about it. I guess I was just dreaming! So when is the futuristic 20GB/s transfer speed going to be here?

if its only 8.2 most likely due to a 5400 RPM in your laptop

20GB/s (years) ur HDD is one of the slowest things in your machine, so its like virgin 50mbps/100mbps internet, u can utilise it, unless currently on several PC's