If you run network utility on your Mac it will show you the current speed that you are connected to your WiFi network. With a couple of years old airport and iMac I would guess the max speed could be 300Mb if you are right next to it, and the speed would drop off the further away you get. On my older MacBook the fastest the WiFi can go is either 150Mb or 144Mb... So either way you should still not quite be saturating your internet connection just yet... Unless you are far enough away from your airport for the speed to negotiate down.
The best way to compare if possible is to do an internet speedtest on WiFi then repeat it with an Ethernet cable and compare the two results. On Mar 25, 2014 4:44 PM, "Russell Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > Virgin have apparently just upgraded our broadband to (upto) 100MB. We > have an airport extreme base station for wifi, about 3 years old. > > I'm struggling to find out how quick the extreme can move data around but > am beginning to wonder if the broadband is getting to the point where it is > faster than the wifi. If that is the case, it might well be sensible to > look at upgrading or running wires/mains/changing how we do it.. > > Main computer is a 2 year old iMac, but also use iPad and iPhones. > > Comments? > > Regards > > Russell > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
