Vista/Wireless Making Speeds Slow?

[MikerSoft]

I just got a new laptop a few days ago, so I installed uTorrent on it, and I went through the whole process of port forwarding so that I don't have a NAT problem. I'm connected to my home wireless network, which I think is 54 mbit. I thought that my speeds would at least be similar to that of my desktop's, but I'm getting around 50 kb/s max. I thought it was because of Vista, and so I tried several things I found online:

I set Advanced> net.bind_ip to my static IP address,

I raised the Advanced> net.max_halfopen to 16

I went into command prompt and typed in "netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled"

I even tried the TCP/IP patch found here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/09/windows-vista-tcpipsys-connection-limit-patch-for-event-id-4226/

I've seen it going at 300 kb/s for a few seconds, but generally speaking, I'm still getting about 50 kb/s. Is there something that I'm missing or anything else I can do?

[jewelisheaven]

Generally speaking wireless isn't better than wired, with connectivity or drop problems being intermittent. But for testing maximum sustainable speeds have you tried a torrent from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ ? Even 5 seeds on that can / will max your connection.