10. Wireless Tests

Wireless testing fared much better than my wired testing, and ran to completion. The Chariot Condition 1 (Figure 18) throughput of 20Mbps is almost 30% higher than the top speed of the ZyAIR G-2000 that I recently tested under identical conditions, a result probably helped by the Nitro-g throughput enhancement.

[Test setup details can be found here]

Figure 18: Condition 1 throughput

Condition 2 (Figure 19) speed was also better than the ZyAIR and the Condition 3 (Figure 20) speed was about double that of the ZyAIR. Streaming performance was not as good, however, with the SMC experiencing lower UDP throughput and more lost packets.

Figure 19: Condition 2 throughput

Figure 20: Condition 3 throughput

I should note that I was unable to get a WEP connection to work with my Fujitsu Lifebook that uses an internal Broadcom-based wireless network card.