Sluggish HDA/PC Transfer Speed

[Ubunfu]

I'm rather new to Amahi and file serving in general, but despite research and in-quantifiable fiddling, I'm stuck.

I have a little desktop at home onto which I installed Amahi to pool files between my family and I while away at school. I have everything configured satisfactorily except for a few aspects.

Problem #1 - In my home
While I am at home, connected directly to my home network I achieve transfer speeds that push the limits of my local network (100Mb/s) as I would like them to, resulting in a satisfactory 10-11MB/s transfer. As Soon as I connect to my home network wirelessly, my speed gets kicked down to about 100-200Kb/s. I only have a wireless G router, but I never see anywhere near that 54Mb/s, even when there is almost no other wireless traffic at all. Naturally, the task manager shows minimal utilization of the 54Mb/s cap.

Problem#2 - Away from home
Similar symptoms occur whenever I attempt to transfer files to/from the HDA away from home using the HDA Connect VPN client. Here the problem is worse though, I am frequently punished with 30KB/s transfer speeds with or without the wire. This happens when my laptop is using a wireless connection as well as when plugged into a router with a cat5 cable. In the same way, I see a ton of extra room on the network I'm using when away.

Is there a reason I can have so much extra bandwidth on both networks that's just sitting on its ass, and still have such terrible transfer speeds? I know I could reasonably expect some drop through the VPN, but certainly not of this magnitude - as far as I know anyway.

Happy to get any information I missed for anyone with an idea.
I appreciate any advice, or kicks in the teeth - so long as they're constructive.

[apastor]

Problem #1

So on your wired network you are getting 10MB/sec, so thats good. It appears your server/network is setup properly.

This wireless issues has nothing to do with Amahi.
Now wireless, I find it never to be good as hardwire and even in my own home, I never get good speeds either.

It could be a number of things...
- general interference
- distance from router
- walls/obstacles between you and your router

try standing beside your router and see if that makes a difference and go from there.

Problem #2
This again is I believe not to be an issue with amahi, but your ISP connection.
Most ISP's have much slower upload speed. I know here they start as low as 15KB/sec.

So if you are getting 30KB/sec, my guess is that is the max speed you can upload from your home ISP.