Maximum 802.11 g speeds ?

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grunthos

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What is the maximum speeds you have seen over 802.11g ? I know the theoretical limit is 54 MBps, but realistically, I am getting about 1MBps between computers placed close to the router ...
If I shift the laptop to another room, it falls to just 150 kbps

I have a Netgear WGR614 router and it has served me fine for 3 years now - because I used it only for surfing the net. Now that I am trying to stream files over the network, its kinda falling short

Any tweaks available to boost speed ?
 
The theoretical limit is 54 megabits per second, yeah. I've never got more that 1.3 megabytes per second with my Intel 4965 wireless card to a Netgear WG311v3 or a Linksys WMP54G v4 over the wi-fi network provided by either a ZyXEL P-660 router or a Beetel 450TC1 router or a Linksys WRT54G router.

Some people have reported better speeds by setting their cards to Autonegotiate instead of Force full duplex and when I tried to get better speeds I remember reading that some others would change the channel that the network was on and change it to be pure 802.11g instead of 802.11b/g.
 
When Is 54 Not Equal to 54? A Look at 802.11a, b, and g Throughput - O'Reilly Media

No matter how you look at it, 802.11g is significantly faster than 802.11b. However, once an 802.11b station associates to an 802.11g network, the throughput drops dramatically, because protection must be activated. The 802.11b station does not need to actively send data to cut the throughput; it just needs to be associated, so that protection is enabled. Mixed 802.11b/g deployments are likely to be common for the foreseeable future, especially in situations where there is no control over client adapters. 802.11a networks can sustain much higher data rates than 802.11g networks with protection enabled, and 802.11a offers the added advantage of more radio channels for easier layout of high-density deployments. 802.11g offers a worthwhile speed advantage over 802.11b, but it does not challenge 802.11a for the performance crown.
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I have shifted from a b/g mix to pure g but without any noticeable speed difference

Dont want to splurge on a n router now - since I just got a new computer ...

But streaming anything more than dvdrips now is impossible
 
Simple rule dear .... chain is as strong as the weakest link .... betweeen your HDD data and the destination storage.... there are many link involved, like settings, OS, NIC, cable, Router/modem, bandwidth usage,overhead, signal strength, Av scan, file type, channel, obstructions etc ... you just cant keep a tab on all ... thats why all people with same router/ wireless protocol get different speeds ... though you always have some tweaking options if the speed is hopelessly slow!
 
Damn. And I thought I'd get backups done via WiFi.
How are things with N?

grunthos said:
I know the theoretical limit is 54 MBps, but realistically, I am getting about 1MBps between computers placed close to the router ...
If I shift the laptop to another room, it falls to just 150 kbps
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I don't know really but are you mixing up Bytes and Bits?
 
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