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tuch92   11-02-2009 at 04:46:46 AM

So I was doing research on wireless N and I came across some problems. I have Zoomtown which the fastest speed they have is a download of 5Mbps. That's what we have right now and when i was looking around it seems to be about that for all internet minus fibre-optics. Wireless-G speed is labeled as 54 Mbps and N is ~300Mbps. Now i'm assuming I'm missing something very important somewhere because in my mind, my max is 5Mbps while Wireless-G's is 54Mbps so I'm not nearly even gonna use G to it's full potential.

Also on Speedtest it says for Cincinnati Bell (my ISP) the average speed is 17.49 Mbps. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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tuch92 wrote :

So I was doing research on wireless N and I came across some problems. I have Zoomtown which the fastest speed they have is a download of 5Mbps. That's what we have right now and when i was looking around it seems to be about that for all internet minus fibre-optics. Wireless-G speed is labeled as 54 Mbps and N is ~300Mbps. Now i'm assuming I'm missing something very important somewhere because in my mind, my max is 5Mbps while Wireless-G's is 54Mbps so I'm not nearly even gonna use G to it's full potential.

Also on Speedtest it says for Cincinnati Bell (my ISP) the average speed is 17.49 Mbps. Any help would be greatly appreciated




you will transferring large file on your network though , best transfer you'll get on a g network is about 11-15 mbps , on a n network between 20-40 , depending on equipment doing the transfers

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area51reopened   11-03-2009 at 12:35:13 AM

you would need a new provider to take advantage of g and n!

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tuch92   11-03-2009 at 03:53:19 AM

Well see on their page online it show the highest you can get is 5Mbps, but then why is the average on Speedtest 17.49 Mbps

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KidHorn   11-04-2009 at 08:53:40 PM

My experience with Wireless G is 54Mbps is pure fantasy. It probably can occur under optimum conditions in a lab, but I've never gotten anywhere close to this in reality. Even with the computer antenna almost touching the router antenna. I typically get maybe 10 mbps on a good day. Sometimes 2 mbps is all I get.

My guess is an N network probably actually gets closer to 50mbps.

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jerry6   11-11-2009 at 09:07:12 PM
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tuch92 wrote :

So I was doing research on wireless N and I came across some problems. I have Zoomtown which the fastest speed they have is a download of 5Mbps. That's what we have right now and when i was looking around it seems to be about that for all internet minus fibre-optics. Wireless-G speed is labeled as 54 Mbps and N is ~300Mbps. Now i'm assuming I'm missing something very important somewhere because in my mind, my max is 5Mbps while Wireless-G's is 54Mbps so I'm not nearly even gonna use G to it's full potential.

Also on Speedtest it says for Cincinnati Bell (my ISP) the average speed is 17.49 Mbps. Any help would be greatly appreciated




you will transferring large file on your network though , best transfer you'll get on a g network is about 11-15 mbps , on a n network between 20-40 , depending on equipment doing the transfers

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tuch92   11-11-2009 at 09:13:19 PM

jerry6 wrote :

you will transferring large file on your network though , best transfer you'll get on a g network is about 11-15 mbps , on a n network between 20-40 , depending on equipment doing the transfers



Oh! Okay thats the part I was missing. I thought they kept upgrading for purely internet sake. That makes a lot more sense. Plus I'm assuming this is for when almost everything is wireless and we'll need more bandwidth. Thanks jerry

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kosimov   11-12-2009 at 12:42:19 AM

Check your network's specs again, very carefully. Is the max download listed as 5mbps, or as 5MBps? The lower case mb stands for "mega bits", while the upper case MB stands for "mega BYTES". If it is MB, you should multiply that by about 10 to get megabits, while lower case does not get multiplied.http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/uk/icones/redface.gif

This isn't always well understood, or at least, not emphasized enough. When I first started downloading years ago, I couldn't figure out why I was only getting a few hundred bits per second when I was on a fast line. I finally discovered my software was reading out the download speed in BYTES per second, not bits per second. Since a BYTE is composed of about 10 bits, I learned to multiply those readings by 10 to get my true speed in bps.
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tuch92   11-12-2009 at 01:56:44 AM

I've double and triple checked before and its mbps not MBps. But thanks for the reply any way. And a byte is 8 bits, not 10. If they wanted to make it seem really fast, they should measure in nibbles (1/2 bit);)

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