Karl had posted an answer about the Linksys (under the subject line
"Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 74, Issue 13")

One comment in there I found very interesting:

> Now this is going to blow your mind, but if there is ANY difference in the Workgroup name between the router and the computers, it causes the router to "restrict" bandwidth.

Does this only apply to various forms of filesharing, or to all
wireless traffic through the WRT54GL?

I (and my housemates) are not doing big downloads, and not using
Samba. Maybe one of the Windows PCs here might occasionally d/l a
movie. But in experimenting with wireless here, using one or other of
my Debian PCs, Tomato on the Linksys, I also thought the wireless
worked rather slow, even though we have a +20MBps connection. Mostly
what I was doing was browsing.

Do all computers using wireless here have to belong to the same
Workgroup, no matter what kind of internet traffic they're doing?

If I do need a Workgroup name for the router, how do I do that?

Thanks,
Liz J

Hi Liz

What's humorous is the difference between the words "Default" and "default". Most routers may allow you to log on, but subsequent packets of data may not verify correctly, hence the speed loss.

As noted by Andy, wireless always defaults to the slowest speed connected. (I seem to have a lot of neighbors that try to break in to my network and when they do at G, B or even A speed the router slows and that tells me that somethings up and I can do something about it.)

Karl