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I have over the last few days been testing some wireless products for my company at home. i am not going to mention names but i tried 3 different manufacturers all with similar results of throughput. setup was adifferent matter anyway here's the results (might shock you)
I tested with nothing else connected to the cable modem and used an accesspoint and pcmcia card from the same manufacturer in each case.
the test machine was a dell laptop 3ghz 2Gb ram--in other words a good spec. each time loaded with a clean win xp pro.
Now i found that wireless 802.11G no one got above 7 Mb so i got concerned that my download speed was "iffy" and as a result and a benchmark connected via my inbuilt broadcom network card straight to cable modem.
each test was repeated 30 times avaerages are shown as well as peak:-
here's the results:-
MANUFACTURER 1 6.15 Mb down 468K up Average 6.30 down 489K up
MANUFACTURER 2 5.85 Mb down 456K up Average 6.11 down 481K up
MANUFACTURER 3 6.06 Mb down 470K up Average 6.23 down 499K up
100mb lan 8.91Mb down 510K up Average 9.76Mb up 517K down peak
I then dug out "old trusty" which is a compaq wl110 802.11b (11mb) wireless card and a matching 802.11b access point.
2.99Mb down 389k up average 3.29Mb up 414K down Peak.
so if your running a speed test it suggests that wireless lan will give you a "false reading" has anyone else noticed this or have i just wasted 7 Hours of testing (as i will have to re-do it)
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why was this moved?
it directly relates to problems with speed testing on the ntl network and how un-reliable they could be
should have benn made a sticky i would have thought?
I'm guessing it was moved because all it seems to suggest (IMHO) is that all 3 wireless points give slower results that a direct connection to the CM. In that case, it's not an NTL issue, but rather a Wires vs wireless issue.
yes but how often will someone test there speed moan its not up to much complain post and waste everyones time just coz there on a wireless connection?
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