On Thursday 27 May 2004 09:04, Henry Standing wrote:
Either 802.11b or 802.11g Wi-Fi. b=11mbps (equivalent to 10mb wired) and
g=54mbps (half of 100mb wired).
Please correct me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that the protocols eat into this transfer speed, and the connection is half- duplex, so actual transfers will usually be at c. 3mbps for 802.11b and c.17mbps for 802.11g. Perfectly adequate for surfing and transfering small amounts of data, but as SRGlasoe points out not so great for (backups, pictures, mp3s, etc).
Most people can't afford an internet connection fast enough to max out an 802.11G card, but if you can, I'm jelouse ;-) Running the various bandwidth tests on my laptop with a G card and comparing that to my 100mge built in nic, the speed is the same.
You could increase this marginally by not using WEP and instead only allowing access by a MAC address - a bit of a security risk, but as long as you don't work for MI5....
I wonder if there is any noticable difference turning off wep. Is this encryption done in the nic or the software. If done in software by your main processor i would be willing to bet the difference is not measurable in the real world. There is always Dual Band 802.11G - 108meg, of which you can often get 75 to 80. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen