On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bill Connelly<[email protected]> wrote: > The Netgear cg814gcmr has 10/100 Mbit/s hardwire ethernet capability, > but only 54 Mbit/s wireless. Are you using wireless networking? You > could get 100Mbs using hardwired networking off your onboard ethernet > connection, if you're connected via a ethernet network wire.
54 Mbps and 100 Mbps are optimistic "marketing" numbers. Granted with wired ethernet you may get within "shouting distance" of the spec max. With wireless that's a LOT less likely to happen. See "Rule #1: It never goes as fast as they say it does" (link below). www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/24861/228/1/1/ All of which is not really that relevant if you are talking about LAN-to-Internet throughput. As (I think) Bruce pointed out, even the typical real-world throughput for 802.11g is often sufficient to cover the 7 or 8 Mbps (or *less*) downstream which is what you're likely to get from a cable modem ISP. Unless something is seriously wrong with a local network, it is unlikely to be the bottleneck for Internet transfers. Easiest way to rule it out is probably to do some file transfers on the local network and see what sort of throughput you get. If you're wondering what the bottleneck might be on LAN-to-LAN transfers, then a reasonably good ... perhaps dumbed down & tedious for some ... look at possible bottlenecks is covered in the Tom's article "Gigabit Ethernet: Dude, Where's My Bandwidth?" (link below). www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gigabit-ethernet-bandwidth,2321.html -irrational john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
