Cannot Get WiFly Shield Transfer Rates Above 236 CPS

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I am using an Arduino Uno R3 & Sparkfun WiFly Shield WRL-09954 with Alpha 2 (Arduino 1.0) Library

The maximum transfer rate I have achieved is 236 characters per second (ROUGHLY 2400 BAUD)!

I see that others have reported higher transfer rates? I have included my test code below.

I appreciate any advice as to why my transfer rates are so low.

Thanks, Carl

// I am using an Arduino Uno R3 & Sparkfun WiFly Shield WRL-09954 with Alpha 2 (Arduino 1.0) Library
// Maximum transfer rate I have achieved is 236 characters per second (ROUGHLY 2400 BAUD)!
// Others report higher transfer rates?

#include "WiFly.h"

Client client("google.com", 80);

int thruPutCount = 0;
long unsigned int holdMillis;

void setup() 
{
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Serial.println("WebClient example at various baud rates.");

  Serial.println("WiFly.begin ...");
  WiFly.begin();

  Serial.println("WiFly.join ...");
  if (!WiFly.join("SSID", "PASSPHRASE"))  //  *** MODIFY FOR YOUR NETWORK ***
  {
    Serial.println("Association failed.");
    while (1) 
      {  // Hang on failure. }
  }  

  Serial.println("WiFly.configure ...");
  WiFly.configure(WIFLY_BAUD, 38400); // Arduino 1.02 -- Had to modify "delay(10)" in WiFlyDevice::configure to "delay(50)"

  Serial.println("connecting...");
  if (client.connect()) 
  {
    Serial.println("connected");
    client.println("GET /search?q=arduino HTTP/1.0");
    client.println();
  } 
  else 
    Serial.println("connection failed");
  
  holdMillis = millis();
  thruPutCount = 0;
}


char c;

void loop() 
{
  c = client.read();
  thruPutCount++;
  if (thruPutCount >= 100) 
  {
    Serial.print("Chars/ sec: ");
    Serial.println( (float) ( 100000/ (millis()-holdMillis) )  ); // 100 chars * 1/1000 secs = 100,000
    thruPutCount = 0;
    holdMillis = millis();
  }  
}