Is your wireless router much slower than cabled ?
Damn wifi, it is soo slow.
I prefer with my ethernet cable, it is so fast compared.

Is it normal ?

(and, wireless,it is not healthy!)

I use a Linksys WRT54GL with a DLink modem. It is as fast as cable.

What is unhealthy about wireless?

I can light up led with it
Enjoy the device

Actually it is normal for Wifi to be slower then a actual cable connection. Especially on LAN, it is also noted that the best preference in online gaming is achieved with a cat5-6 cable, not wifi.

Yes, wireless compared to wired will be slower. There are many factors that determine speed but the posted numbers are 1000/100/10mb/s for wired compared to 802.11g @ 54mb/s, or extreme g @ 108 mb/s and 802.11b @ 11mb/s. So what hardware are you using? Obviously if you running wired GbE hardware your going to see a big difference.

In reality your not going to get the ideal wireless numbers for various reasons. The two major factors are distance from router and what lies in between, walls and metal objects will reduce speed. In addition other devices that operate on the same frequency like cordless phones will interfere with the wireless signals will reduce speed or wipe out the signal completely.

It is safe. Just do not place the antenna near your brains or testicles.

Well, for the childrens, I'd better avoid wifi in house; they play all time around.

Maybe installing more ethernet cables into the walls would be THE solution.

Sorry to scare you. In all seriousness the RF levels of wireless ethernet are very low and do not pose a health hazard for your children.

when im at home i dont notice much differance in net speed but thats because the 4Mb/s that my parents DSL runs at is insiognificant compared to the 100M of a cable (ok my NIC can do 1000 but the router cant)
or the 56M of wireless, however i allways use a cable to do large file transfers on the house NAS store, its about 4 times faster (why isnt it only 2x faster?(duplexing issue?))


at uni it does make a differance but only because the lan cable to my computer is the slowest link to the internet!
speedtest.net gives me attained speeds of 75M DL and 50M UL !!!!!!!!
http://www.speedtest.net/result/233267409.png
thats one fast connection!

802.11n and 802.11y are the upcoming wi-fi standards, which also provide much better bandwidth and coverage. Wi-Fi is mostly convenient when in different areas of the house, and when you are web surfing, but I never used it for anything else. Also, ever since the internal wi-fi card in my notebook died a few months back, I have been using wired only and shut off the wireless on my verizon router. Plus it never did work under Linux even with ndiswrapper. (Great job broadcom!)

I think my HW warranty is out on my notebook to replace it. The only thing that is still probably covered is my screen. I searched all over the net for a wi-fi express card, but haven't been able to find any (that are a resonable price) One from Belkin only, for $120. Only Cardbus or USB, and I don't want to use USB.

The main issues I have with Wi-Fi are not only the inteference, and speed issues, but also the security hazard it poses. WPA2 is supposed to be the new standard of Wi-FI security, but given enough time even that can be eventually cracked, altough not as easily as WEP. WEP is just a joke anyways.

802.11y looks interesting, i havvent seen it before allthough the "enabeling signal" has some concerns,

what is to stop the RIAA or MPAA or other malicious corparation sending "disabeling signals" to everyones router that is susspected of piracy?

The law is what stops them. It would be very foolish on their part, trying to have anti-piracy laws enforced, yet breaking people's systems for the sake of thwarting piracy. It is still breaking the law, and I doubt those organizations would be that stupid to do something like that. All they can do is ask for the IP of the user in question from the ISP. The ISP may choose to terminate the user's account, but only the ISP has the power to disrupt a user's service, nobody else.