[themuscle]

Hey,

First I need to mention that I have been spoiled by M$ over the years and never really used Linux. A complete Linux noob.

I have just given XBMC Live a try and must say it is really awesome. Don't think I could go back to W7 MCE.

I have really shitty networking equipment but in the process of buying new stuff.

Anyway, I have installed XBMC Live to hard drive. I was given a D-Link DWA-520 wireless card and popped it in the machine. It 'works', gets weather and movie/tv show scrapes just fine.

The problem is when I try to copy to the shares over wifi from my Windows 7 laptop. I get 600kb/s but when I copy over a wired connection I get 3mb/s. I have a 802.11g router.

I checked and the system says it is currently using the Ath5 driver.

interfaces file:

Code:

# Wireless interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid yournetworkname
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

samba conf:

Code:

[drive1]
comment = XBMC Drive 1
path = /media/drive1
force user = xbmc
inherit permissions = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[drive2]
comment = XBMC Drive 2
path = /media/drive2
force user = xbmc
inherit permissions = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes

Have even added:

Code:

socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

wpa_supplicant conf:

Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
    ssid="yournetworkname"
    #psk="password"
    psk=<removed>
    proto=RSN
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    pairwise=CCMP
    group=CCMP
}

EDIT: Using WPA2-PSK on router.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks