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Old October 9th 17, 09:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On 9 Oct 2017 18:00:47 GMT, KenK wrote:

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On 7 Oct 2017 17:01:44 GMT, KenK wrote:

Paul wrote in news
KenK wrote:
Paul wrote in
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

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Also look at what speed you're getting from your ISP to the
outside world
The reason for wanting whizzy Wifi standards, is so
LAN to LAN transfers in your computer room, happen at
a decent speed.

If I'm transferring a 40GB VM image from 192.168.0.1 to
192.168.0.2, I want wire speed from that. As much as the
tech can manage (at a reasonable price).

If I'm doing backup from my SSD-only computer, to the
4TB backup HDD inside computer #2, I want the
wire speed to match the destination disk speed. (As the
destination rotating hard drive might be the limiting
factor.)

It wouldn't surprise me to find an ISP selling a
GbE fiber internet connection, with a router running
802.11N as an example. Some people in the group, do have
actual decent Internet speeds, and are paying $100+ a month
to get them. And they wouldn't want to be throttled by an
inadvertent choice of that sort.

Note that, even if the router was 802.11ac, and the computer
had an old 802.11n 1x1 (Edimax $10 dongle) in it, then the
802.11n determines the rate, and the ac end "falls back"
to match.

My experience is, lots and lots of people don't realize
just how many hurdles they have to jump, to get the
actual potential from Wifi. Ethernet is a lot easier
to get right. The way Wifi is done, it's mostly false
advertising - for example, an apartment dweller will
*never* see the rates listed on the tin, as there will
be a ton of 802.11g to cause the channel width to stay
at 20MHz.

Paul


The CenturyLink C1100Z DSL modem (owned by them) evidently has
Wi-Fi. An indicator LED on the front is lit and says Wireless.
There is a female connector on the back that says LAN/WAN. That's
all I see that I don't recognize. Looks like a DSL connector. I
thought there'd be an antenna BNC or whatever connector.

Guesses?

TIA

https://fccid.io/I88C1100Z/Users-Man...al-2599600.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/C1100Z-802-11...CenturyLink/dp
/B 015ELWZ16

VDSL2 (rj11 phone connector)

300 Mbps 802.11n access point [2.4GHz] 2T x 2R
(must be two internal antennas)

GbE WAN and 4 port GbE Switch (RJ45 connectors)

Looks like wired connections would be the fastest,
when doing computer-to-computer file sharing on the
thing.

Paul

To get back to the original question, what about modern computers
without ethernet connectors? I thought to Wi-Fi eliminated this
problem by transmitting the DSL signal to the PC wirelessly. If
there's no ethernet connection, how do you connect this modem's WAN
signal to it?

Perhaps the answer is in your links - haven't had a chance to read
them yet.


WiFi is your LAN connection.
Do you actually have a new PC without the RJ45 connector? I have never
seen one.


I was told this by the salesman in the electronics area at my Walmart.
I'm not serious enough about a new one to look any up on Google.

Good news that it's not a problem.


I looked and they do have some laptops without an ethernet port so if
it is important to you, look at them.
I know I would not want to depend on WiFi myself.
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