DeVerm wrote: > But even a bad setup will do better than 5.4Mbps or the whole kit is > useless. Even my $50 Linksys does better!
Have you measured it with collisions? Back in ancient times, there were huge technical debates over token ring vs Ethernet. Because token ring's performance with contention was essentially fixed, and Ethernet's is probabilistic. CSMA/CD never delivers more than half its rated capacity in any real world case. a 25% delivery is good, and one tenth is not at all unusual with collisions being detected. Most folks don't care, because their ISP only provides one or two megabits/second, so any slowdown by the WiFi is not visible to laptops, etc. But streaming media can seriously stress a network. Audio will crush 802.11b's 11 mbs and video can crush 'n' Pat _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
