pirates without wires

OK, so my set up is as follows:
500GB Fileserver :D
933MHZ laptop tiny HD :(

They're both connected to an 8mbit DSL line, the fileserver by wire, the laptop wirelessly.
Basically I'm wondering, if I open a torrent on my laptop and select to save it on the fileserver, will it take any sort of speed hit with all this travelling wirelessly.
Would it be better just to instigate the download from the fileserver in the first place.

What a fag! I've got my server set up wirelessly, with a torrent user account and my other two flatmates mstsc in and add torrents as they like, as I do myself. Tell him to stop being such a noob and give you a shell account or something.

But in relation to your question, you would only take a speed hit if you were pulling down more data off the internet than the wireless connection could handle. So, in theory, no. But if you get bad weather, bad interference, move out of range or basically your wireless connection dies, then yes, the download will suffer.