I've come to conclusion that Linksys gear in general isn't that brilliant. It's okay and reasonably reliable but I prefer Netgear stuff now.
I've got a small 5 port Linksys switch for the devices around my desk. I've always had a transfer rate of around 1MB/s but I recently tried a Netgear switch and the transfer rate went up to 7MB. Put the Linksys back and it dropped again.

- Trevor