i checked the network speed on both my computers, my desktop was at 100, but i found my laptop wireless to be at 21mb/s, not knowing how to change it, i messed around and enabled "enable Intel connection settings" in the wireless properties dialog window, that changed the speed to 54 mb/s. however transfer rates stayed at 1.2 mb/s. my laptop wireless card is Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN. I went to my router settings but couldnt find anything relating to transfer speed. my router is speedstream 6520.
Thanks for your response.