On Sun 31 Dec 06, 3:44 AM, Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 09:33 pm, Mark K. Kim lugod3MAPS-at-cbreak.org > |lugod| wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:59:37PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > Is there such a thing as a consumer wireless network card that reaches > > > wired ethernet speed? > > > > There are several types of standards but these are probably the ones > > you're interested in: > > > > Wired ethernet LAN speeds: 10baseT is 10Mbps max. 100baseT is 100Mbps > > max. 1000baseT, now quite affordable, is 1000Mbps max. > > Wired netowrks have very low overhead, typicly single digit percentages. > > > Wireless LAN speeds: 802.11b can reach 11Mbps max. 802.11g can reach > > 54Mbps max. 802.11n can reach 540Mbps max. > > > > There is more noise on wireless connections so the "max" on wireless is > > not as "max" as the "max" on the wired connections =P 802.11b feels > > a lot like 5Mbps to me most of the time. > > WiFi has overhead of around 100%, and rates quoted are always the gross data > rate including all overhead. > > 802.11n isn't a standard yet. Standards based 802.11g kit gets around 20 to > 25 Mbps > > Also note that WiFi is half duplex and shared media; only one station can > successfully transmit at once. Even worse, in managed mode (at least, with > stardards complaint gear), client stations must communicate amongst each > other through the Access Point; resulting in major speed decreases. > > There are a lot of things WiFi is good at, but being fast is not one of them.
Thanks Mark and Ryan. Thanks for the replies. I suspected that was the case. However, I didn't realize that Gigabit was so cheap. I think I'll upgrade to that. :) Pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
