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Is this good connect for wifi?

post #1 of 9
8/26/08 at 9:22pm
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anyone else on wifi atm? take the same test and lets compare!! ^__^

i use Knology internet, and digi cable for 90ish a month

wifi G card- on a WRT54G with speed booster Linksys router using stock up to date firmware

mebe i should try tomato or ddt or whatever its called?
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post #2 of 9
8/27/08 at 6:30am
That number beats my direct connect once in a while. Cool.

cheers ...
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post #3 of 9
8/27/08 at 9:41pm
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
That number beats my direct connect once in a while. Cool.

cheers ...
dam that makes me feel happy

imma try a very very far away server and see what i get



with 3 tabs up, along with test tab
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post #4 of 9
8/28/08 at 11:53am
I get 8000/6500 on wifi here at the university on a local test server. I get 8000/4500 on a far away server.

Direct connect I pull 30000/7000 locally and 10000/7000 across the country. Unfortunately I only get 10 mbps maximum so 30000 is pretty much 100% line capacity.

Anyways, enough of my bragging. Your results are damn decent. Oh yeah, I only directly pay $50 a semester for the internet.
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post #5 of 9
10/10/08 at 12:03pm
You're actually measuring your wired isp connection. Actual throughput up and down on wifi-g should be a max of about 27 Mb/s, depending on signal strength.

With internal cards, you will get these speeds only near your access point - within single digit feet. With high performance wifi adapters, like a Wi-Fire, you'll get those speeds from farther away.
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post #6 of 9
10/10/08 at 4:10pm
Yeah, Wi-Fi is more than fast enough to peg your broadband connection. So going to speedtest.net says really nothing about how fast your Wi-Fi LAN is.

Mind you that 802.11g Wi-Fi might get a little worse throughput the more crowded the APs get.
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post #7 of 9
10/10/08 at 4:17pm
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Yeah, Wi-Fi is more than fast enough to peg your broadband connection. So going to speedtest.net says really nothing about how fast your Wi-Fi LAN is.

Mind you that 802.11g Wi-Fi might get a little worse throughput the more crowded the APs get.
how do i test my speeds then?

and i understand its limited....but why would a speed test say im beyond that limit?
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post #8 of 9
10/16/08 at 3:52pm


Here's an example of a faster ISP with my Sager Wireless n connection. I would get the exact same results by plugging in my 1GB ethernet line to my GB router or using wireless g. The bottleneck is the ISP.

The real advantage of wireless n is the ability to perform local file transfers or stream video in real time without ethernet. If wireless n has an Achilles heel and it's range. You lose throughput rapidly as you increase the distance especially if you are running a 5GHz router.

If you'd like to measure the speed of your wireless connection at anytime open the status window for the connection and look at the speed displayed. You can get up to 300Mbps on wireless n but it drops as you move the laptop farther away. You could also test the speed with a large single file transfer from the wireless n notebook to a PC hardwired to the router. Use a file that's large enough to show you the speed in real time and allow you to measure the time it takes.
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post #9 of 9
10/17/08 at 11:48am
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how do i test my speeds then?

and i understand its limited....but why would a speed test say im beyond that limit?
Really the only way to test LAN speeds is to time a file copy from one system to another. It's not all that reliable though.

speedtest didn't say you were beyond the limit. It says your downstream is 3500 Megabits per second Which is approximately 51 Megabits per second slower than 802.11g. It also says your upstream is 350 kilobits per second which is ALOT slower than 54Mbps.

Now, when you download or upload a file to the Intertubes the speed is measured in kilobytes not kilobits. It takes 8 bits to make one byte. The difference is the uppercase or lowercase b. Uppercase B denotes a Byte, lowercase b denotes a bit. All downloads are measured in kB or for those of us more fortunate MB. However, our ISPs market our internet connections to us in kb or Mb.
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