Dumb question about Speed.

[TygGer]

I was in the store the other day looking at wireless routers. I understood that the 802.11b was 11Mb, g was 56Mb and Super G was 108mbps. Does this max speed refer to the internet speed, network speed or both????

Thanks!

 

[JackMDS]

It refers to Theoretical Local Network (LAN) ?Speed?.

Regular DSL is in the 1-2Mb/sec. range.

Regular Cable is in the 1-4Mb/sec. range.

So as you can see Internet needs less than the slowest LAN.

:light:

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
It refers to Theoretical Local Network (LAN) ?Speed?.

Regular DSL is in the 1-2Mb/sec. range.

Regular Cable is in the 1-4Mb/sec. range.

So as you can see Internet needs less than the slowest LAN.

:light:

^Yup^ and the theoretical LAN speeds are just that. Real world speeds are lower.

 

[martind1]

in other words, your network will always be bottlenecked by your internet conenction (dsl/cable, etc) since you network will be 11 mb or what ever.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: martind1
in other words, your network will always be bottlenecked by your internet conenction (dsl/cable, etc) since you network will be 11 mb or what ever.

Ah, Ah!!! :Q
The Network will not be bottleneck by the Interent connection. The Network(LAN) will run it course on Max possible speed between the computers.

Internet activities will run according to the Interent Connection's "Speed".

 

[martind1]

ok, that was a poorly constructed answer by me.

I had meant the computer reachign the internet is bottlenecked by the internet connection, not the lan.

 

[Kelemvor]

Just to summarize, the speeds on network cards don't apply much when browsing the internet because most internet connections don't run as fast as the network cards could run. But going just through the network card to a server (or another local PC) connected directly to the router is when you'll notice the speed difference.

right? heh.

 

[TygGer]

Ok, I understand now!

Thanks all!