Transfer Speeds (real world)

Dolby

Dolby

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I was chatting to the guy at work and mentioned my real world speed of my wireless is 2.8MB/sec (megabytes) and he replied that's pretty slow.

I've googled and it seems that's not too bad. I know, however, that there are many factors determining link speed.

What is your real world transfer?
 
Yup, that sounds about right. Even though they claim 54Mb/s (6.75MB/s) you will not get that speed on actual transfers. There is a lot of ethernet overhead on Wifi :(
 
Best I have seen is 2.3MB/s. Using Teracopy. Desktop to desktop.

My laptop only gets 1.9-2.0, though seems to go faster to the one desktop... All through D-link 54 router
 
I'm using Wireles N ... seems only marginally better than G rates ... :/

But average I guess.
 
Well, what speed then? I was considering N. If it isn't that much of a difference, I can just unfurl the old cable when larger transfers are needed.
 
LFX said:
hahahahahah! :D :rolleyes:

:confused:
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Uhm, yea, I am not exactly sure how to phrase it :o

The hardware level wifi packets (ethernet packets?) have lots of redundancy data added to it. So even though you send 100bytes of data, the packet that gets sent is a lot larger. Thus your "54" mbps connection spends a lot of that bandwidth on data padded around your data.

Not sure if that makes any sense :confused::D
 
DJNgoma said:
I get about 11MB/s about 60 metres away from my router with my wireless N network, this is on average.
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wow ok .. mine is using G speeds then.

I'll try tweak tonight!
 
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