Yipppeeee!

[TSR2]

Thing I'm following John, but what WiFi standard is it, a, b, g, n, ac etc? I also think your getting your MegaBytes (MB) and Megabits (Mb) confused.

[J0hn]

Nah, I'm not getting them confused (my 8bit bytes) but I just don't always express it properly (most folks don't know the difference anyway).

[TSR2]

Ah right, I was going to say 12MB would be pretty impressive for a wireless USB adapter

[J0hn]

PS:





I especially like the bit that says "faster than 91% of GB"

Just so you know - this is with the N600 wireless adapter connected with both the 2.4 and 5G connection. Dunno why it does that - I told it to use 5G, but it uses both I suppose it's because I'm using the windows config and not the Netgear wizard, which I have never liked.

I just disconnected the wireless and used LAN over RJ-45, but the difference is marginal:



Whatever, it's still

[DaveG]

Show off!

[J0hn]

The really funny thing is, I went and sat in the lav earlier, just about 8ft from the router in this room, with my netbook that's been showing around 40mbps and guess what?

3mbps!

I kid ye not. I reckon it's the tiled walls.

[mayagrafix]

AS I know it, wireless is limited in transfer speed by design. For full speed connection, use CAT cable connection to modem. BTW, congrats on your newly upgraded connection. It's a whole new ballgame now :<)

Ethernet network controllers typically support 10 Mbit/s Ethernet, 100 Mbit/s Ethernet, and 1000 Mbit/s Ethernet varieties. Such controllers are designated 10/100/1000 - this means they can support a notional maximum transfer rate of 10, 100 or 1000 Megabits per second

IEEE 802.11g-2003 or 802.11g is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 specification that extended throughput to up to 54 Mbit/s using the same 2.4 GHz band as 802.11b. This specification under the marketing name of Wi-Fi has been implemented all over the world.

From Wikipedia

[TSR2]

You can get almost 1Gbps on WiFi now using 802.11ac. These are readily available at Amazon, Dabs etc, but are quite expensive.
http://www.11ac.co.uk/


John, some Radios are quite clever and actually connect using both frequencies, however they only use a single IP address. The idea being that if one goes out of range, or fails to perform, it will seamlessly use the other. The alternative is to shut the 2.4GHz radio down on the router, but you'll find a great many devices that use this frequency won't be able to connect.