Ok...then this makes perfect sense. I guess I got confused as before I
had 1 Gbps adapters on the PCs, but a router with a 10/100 Mbps switch.
Everything was bottlenecked to the router's speed. But now the router is
jacked!
So, it is better to let the 2.4 G wireless channel be throttled at 300
Mbps or keep it at 54 Mbps (the 5 G is set at 300 Mbps)?
They are now making these 11n usb adapters which claim to bring 300 Mbps
to devices that don't have it built in. Well, I don't think that applies
to Tivos / Blu rays, but it does to older laptops, I think.
I'm just wondering if it is worth the effort to move everything possible
to 300 Mbps (on both 2.4 and 5 GHz) so to avoid having older stuff drag
down the entire wireless. I could get a wireless N bridge for the AV
stuff and a usb N adapter for the older laptop.
I don't guess there are 11n repeaters around, right? I have a lot of
stuff between my router and my AV system. They are at opposite ends of
the house with several walls and a floor between them.
On 5/13/2010 8:27 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
The gig ports are part of a switch. So dedicated bandwidth for each port. So
if you are transferring between 2 Gigabit computers a third 10/100 wont slow
the network down.
Its different from wireless where the slowest one drags the whole network
down.
On May 13, 2010 3:18 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin"<[email protected]> wrote:
I thought a ethernet network was limited by the slowest device on the
network.
With this new Netgear 3700, I have a 1 Gbps network between my wired PC
(both with 1 Gbps adapters). So the green lights are on for them.
I also have that Powerline network plugged in downstairs and the light shows
10/100 Mbps (amber). It's connected to the Tivo downstairs (which has a
10/100Mbps adapter built in).
But I can move files between the two PCs at close to 500 Mbps. Why is that?
I thought it was supposed throttle down to 100 Mbps. Is that not true?
Apparently, its not, as the file transfer went much faster than I expected.
It would truly be nice if all 1 Gbps devices on a shared network could
transfer at that speed.
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