Wi Fi Speeds

[Rod Gayford]

Might seem like a silly question, however my broadband speed is being
upgraded to 20,000 KPS and presently my computer is connected wirelessly to
a broadband router using the 802.11g/2.4GHz protocol. I was just wondering
whether that wireless protocol can handle the broadband speed of 20,000 KPS?

Cheers

Rod Gayford

 

[Bob I]

802.11g is capable of up to 54 Mbit/second

 

[Paul]

Might seem like a silly question, however my broadband speed is being
upgraded to 20,000 KPS and presently my computer is connected wirelessly to
a broadband router using the 802.11g/2.4GHz protocol. I was just wondering
whether that wireless protocol can handle the broadband speed of 20,000 KPS?

Cheers

Rod Gayford

Smallnetbuilder (a Tomshardware site), evaluates wireless performance.
The chart I selected here, shows a typical plain Wireless G device.
Notice that the tendency, is for them to operate at "one notch down"
from max. This chart would meet your requirements, but not at an
infinite distance. This chart also doesn't account for interference.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_wireless/Itemid,200/

The other issue, is getting 20 megabits per second from the server
side. Using a Torrent and opening many connections, is one way to
"fill the pipe". But for a lot of other networking activities, the
server won't come near to achieving 20Mbit/sec. Also note, that while
it is counter intuitive, some ISPs go out of their way to filter
user activities. Either they have a hard cap on megabytes per month,
or they filter certain kinds of traffic. For example, some US ISPs
filter unencrypted torrents, so that the user only gets 2KB/sec. (Switching
to an encrypted Torrent, will fix it, until the ISP figures out a
way to police those as well.)

Any ISP offering a 20 megabit/sec service, had better have a "mighty networking
machine", a router with fat pipes, to back it up, and offer that actual
service to users. On at least some ISPs, you might only see the 20Mb/sec
at 3 A.M. in the morning. During the day, the number achieved will make
you want your money back.

I guess you'll be able to give us a report, when the service is running

Some networking equipment, will have limits on how many live connections
it will support. I have no idea what that limit might be, but if the limit
was low enough, that might be another reason for not being able to fill
the pipe with a Torrent download.

http://utorrent.com/faq.php

"The following modems/routers have known problems with too many global
connections, limiting them to 200 or less should fix the problems:"

HTH,
Paul

 

[Guest]

rod, i dont know if i can be of much help but seems to me that your software
pkg that came with your set up should discuss the security issues , along
with the task mgr in the control pannel and the settings , search microsoft
or windows knowledgbase for wepa settings and security issues along with the
propertiy windows of your software and hardware in the control panel. i was
wondering though, could you help me with understanding this wi fi thing and
how i can set it up on my computor. i have a built in 801g, but dont know
what to do with it, when i look at the settings, they are blank, i see no
key, or ip address or any of the information that i think should go into my
settings info...........thanks michael

 

[smlunatick]

rod, i dont know if i can be of much help but seems to me that your software
pkg that came with your set up should discuss the security issues , along
with the task mgr in the control pannel and the settings , search microsoft
or windows knowledgbase for wepa settings and security issues along with the
propertiy windows of your software and hardware in the control panel. i was
wondering though, could you help me with understanding this wi fi thing and
how i can set it up on my computor. i have a built in 801g, but dont know
what to do with it, when i look at the settings, they are blank, i see no
key, or ip address or any of the information that i think should go into my
settings info...........thanks michael





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As with all 802.11 adapters (a,b,g,n) you need some type of access
point/router to provide the wieless signals within your PC's work
area. Acess point devices are normally use for large corporate
networks and wireless routers for small to medium sized networks.