Slow transfer speed while sharing files on a winxp netwok using 54g wireless clients.

Turn off Zone Alarm and see if that helps.

Also, the laptop is on a wireless connection right?  That will slow you down if you don't have the AP configured correctly, if youhave increased encyption/security on the AP, or if you aren't getting good connection speeds across the wireless.

I also would say your wireless AP is the point of failure here.  They claim 54mps but I have not been able to get close to that.

something  i found helped is changing the configuration on the network card.

my network conections -> right click on the conection and select properties.

click configure on the network card (above TCP/IP etc options)

here you can change the speed of the network card, it's probably currently set to Auto Negotiate, just change that to say 100MB/s Full Duplex and see if that helps. i was having problems sending and recieving files over MSN with 400KB pictures taking almost 15 mins! now they only take a couple of mins which is a massive improvment.
you'll have to change this option on the laptop and PC.
let me know if it helps or not.

Won't be able to change it on the Laptop if it is connecting wirelessly.  

Turning off Zone Alarm did nothing for the transfer speed. As I have read others having the same problem, but not providing a solution, I was wondering if this is a problem without a fix.
Transferring files on a wire with the same router gives me full speed, about 9.5MB/s.
Having read reviews of the router, gave me a hint of what to expect. The reviews all say it gived about 30Mbit transfer speed on a lan using wireless.

Check your wireless card settings once connected.  It will tell you what speed you are connecting at.

Turn on use netbios over tcp/ip in the advanced propeties of you network connections and reboot and try again.  Think that will speed things up.
Good luck

The connection speed according to the wireless network connection is a stable 54Mbit.
I installed NetBIOS protocol on both pcs. This boosted the speed to a peek speed of 993KB/s.
This is still much lower than the speed I am supposed to get, but
 3x the speed of before I installed NetBIOS.

If you have any more tips they are recieved with the most gratitude.

Thanks alot guys!

If the files that you want to access are only on one machine then you can set it to a manually assigned IP and put that into the hosts file of the other machines
ie: start - run - notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
add a line under:     127.0.0.1       localhost  
that is :                   ipaddress      name of computer

example of my host file is:

127.0.0.1           localhost
192.168.0.5        fileserver

Also remove any extra items unless you have to have them from you network properties - extra protocols slow things down.
you should just have the Microsoft client, QOS packet scheduler, file and printer sharing, and tcp/ip.
I would recommend unchecking QOS packet scheduler and also for more stable network connections disabling the power management on the nics - this is found under the configure button next to the network device on that same properties of the connection page.

BTW, what are you security settings for your wireless?  Is it open?  

Also, on your laptop, do you have any other wireles configuration software on it. (its usually provided by the NIC manufacturer) If you do have a wireless config utility built in with the WLAN card, then go into Admin tools -> services and turn off the "wireless zero configuration" service.  This is a common issue with wireless devices on windows XP.

Hi again.

i tried unchecking all of the protocols I don't need, only to see that the transfer speed was back to a max of 300KB/s. I added the laptop as a host in the hosts file but it didnt make a difference.
I just can't figure it out. A friend of mine laught at my problem, blaming the "bad equipment I had bought". He also has a wireless router and 2 wireless clients. I told him to test his transfer speed, only to find out that he has the same problem :(.
He doesn't have the same aquipment as me, he has a philips wireless router, a belkin pci card and a Fujitsu-Siemens centrino laptop.
His network is WEP encrypted.

This tells me that it is not product related. It must be a common problem with wireless setup.

What is kinda funny is that i had a friend over and he connected his pc with a cable to the router. Transferspeed was excellent. maybe I should just start ripping out my hair, straw by straw.