wireless G what throughput have you achieved?

zod

watching the meter on my slingbox player it varies between 500 and 2300Kbps ( at a guess it averages 1100Kbps )

on a wireless G connection .. below 750 it can disrupt the picture which is annoying.

What kind of throughput are people getting on your wireless G ?

walshki

From various tests I've run on speedguide it varies between 900kbs up to 2800kbps on the lappy with wireless. My connection is a 3mbps with IBB. I once got 3500kbps - not sure how that happened - possibly a fault in the test. Just ran one now and got 2mbps to one server and 2.5mbps to another. 2mbps seems to be average enough recently. I have the dlink Di524 router.

ethernet

I was copying an 8 Gb video file to another desktop on the network last week. I was getting a mean of 3 mbps. The ungrateful recipient accidentally tripped on the power chord near the end of the ordeal. In the end, I just made a DVD instead.

The funny thing is that Windows says the wireless connection was connected at 108 mbps. Wireless-G just isn't good enough.

SouperComputer

you rarely get anywhere near the quoted throughput for a series of reasons:

1). Its not full duplex (Ie traffic can only flow one direction at a time, MIMO is an exception however)
2). The bandwidth is shared between the clients so thats another chunk eaten.
3). Encryption takes up space too
4). TCP\IP and SMB, FTP or whatever you are using to transfer the files takes up more space. TCP\IP overhead typically eats 40% of any LAN connection beit wireless or cable.

And this is assuming 100% signal strength in a Vacuum!

ethernet

Just out of curiousity, would there be any performance increase in using ad hoc mode instead of infrastructure if copying large files between two client both connected to a router wirelessly, i.e. to have them 'talk' directly to each other?