Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>
> However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a
> download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the mac, running the same test from
> the same site (http://speedtest.comcast.net) shows a download speed of
> 26.89Mbps

Before worrying about things like that, it helps to get a second 
opinion.  Try this speed test on both machines and see if you get 
similar results: 
http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk&newlang=uk