What exactly are these Router specs reporting?

[Caveman]

802.11n: up to 450Mbps ; 802.11a/g: up to 54Mbps; 802.11b: up to 11Mbps

Supports Ethernet and 802.3 with max. bit rate 10/100/1000 Mbps

OK... Pretty basic questions here...

1) The first line are the wireless specs and associated speeds that are obtainable if the Receiver side is using those protocols, yes???

2) Line 2 are the wired specs, yes? What to the 10/100/1000 Mbps numbers mean?

 

[Fardringle]

1) Yes, those are the theoretical maximum speeds it supports. (Expect to get about half in perfect conditions.)

2) That means it supports all wired Ethernet specifications from 10 to 1000 (10mpbs to 1gbps) speeds.

 

[Caveman]

Thanks for your help.

1) Interesting... So... I guess I need to buy something like the following to make use of a fast wireless stream?

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Wireless...r=1-4&keywords=wireless+N+receiver+for+laptop

2) If it supports all those speeds, why don't they just report it as max throughput 1000Mbps? If I feed it 100Mbps, and I have 2 clients downloading at the same time, I assume each would get 50 Mbps... Similarly, do the wired and wireless throughput share the same bandwidth?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

1) Yes, those are the theoretical maximum speeds it supports. (Expect to get about half in perfect conditions.)

2) That means it supports all wired Ethernet specifications from 10 to 1000 (10mpbs to 1gbps) speeds.

To clarify, you dont get "half" in perfect conditions, you get the full amount in perfect conditions, but not all of it is payload data, some of it is headers in frames and packets, some of it is retransmits, etc. Not all data being sent is necessarily usable data, some is required to get the info from point A to point B

 

[Caveman]

Still wondering about clarifications in my second post...

 

[RadiclDreamer]

It says it supports each of those because each is a different standard and there are devices that dont support older speeds (looking at you cisco 2148) so 1gbps or 1000mb is the only option.

Same with wireless, N supports up to 450 with 3 spatial streams on the client side, G is 54mb in perfect conditions and b is 11mb in perfect conditions, but they list "up to" because if you have noise or lower signal strength you will not get those speeds.