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Macbook connecting to N router at 130 Mbps

alevasseur14

alevasseur14

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Hello everyone. I few weeks ago I picked up a DIR 655 and noticed that my Macbook only connects at 130Mbps. Granted, thats faster than the 54Mbps I used to connect at but I'm wondering why it's not 300Mbps.

I've been at the Apple store before and connected at 300Mbps so I know the Macbook can do it, I'm just wondering why it won't at home? Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: alevasseur14
Hello everyone. I few weeks ago I picked up a DIR 655 and noticed that my Macbook only connects at 130Mbps. Granted, thats faster than the 54Mbps I used to connect at but I'm wondering why it's not 300Mbps.

I've been at the Apple store before and connected at 300Mbps so I know the Macbook can do it, I'm just wondering why it won't at home? Thanks!
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That's the theoretical speed. You'll never see that full speed. 130Mbps is excellent. You're average 54Mbps wireless network is lucky to see as much as 20Mbps. There are a lot of things that come into play. Network overhead, Wireless security overhead, distance from router... all sorts of stuff.
 
I understand the theoretical max is 300 but shouldn't my connection at least show 300? This is the first draft N router I've owned but in the past, my Macbook always showed 54 Mbps even though I knew I wasn't getting that full speed.

I'm happy with the speed and everything, I was just wondering why there's a discrepancy. Thanks again!
 
Thanks anyways for your help. I have heard that Windows will report 300 Mbps through Bootcamp but I don't have Windows installed.

Maybe someone else knows?
 
None of the Entry Wireless Cards really measures any Speed.

The "Speed" readings come from fixed ranges entries in the Drivers.

If you would like to measure countable transfer you have to measure actual Fie Transfer, or use a professional application that was designed to measure transfer.
 
I just wanna chime in here because Im looking for an application for OS X that will do just what JackMDS is saying. Measure actual LAN transfer speed.
 
So you think that it's just a glitch in the driver settings or something? I want to point out that I don't think there is anything wrong, it's simply a curiosity more than anything.

Thanks for chiming in, everyone!
 
I'll have to check that out when I get home. I left it on 2.4 because my roommate has a Wii that he likes to use once a month or so but I'll switch it to 5 and see what happens.
 
Cool. That's exactly the kind of tip I was looking for. I didn't know you had to bond the two channels together. I'll look into that. Thanks!
 
I should note that not all consumer cards support the channel bonding that 802.11n supports. From what I remember from testing that others, who I work with, who have done the Buffalo cards were the best external add-on cards for laptops and Intel cards are by far the best.
 
*cough*

And now you see the fubar of prestandard stuff. Stop buying this crap or the standard will never be ratified.
 
Thanks for the tip spidey, but I don't regret it. My old router died and my roommate works at Best Buy so I got it cheap. Draft crap or broken crap? Draft crap works better. And lets not forget that MacBooks come with draft N installed. Can't really help that.

It's a complex situation with a lot of ins and outs but at the end of the day I don't really even mind that it doesn't connect at 300 and might not ever connect at 300. I'm an early adopter because I like learning new things and don't mind messing around with something if it doesn't quite work.

Now, if my roommate would lay off the WoW so I could tinker with this thing a little... 🙂
 
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