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Why is wireless Internet speed much less than wired
Hi,
I have a little wireless/wired Ethernet network in my home/office with three PC's, an Xbox 360 and a wireless network printer. I like to use the Internet speed test at www.whatismyip.com to benchmark my Internet speed. The server in San Francisco records the best results, upto 25 mbps download and about 500 kbps upload. The San Francisco download Internet speed results appear to be right at the top range of the theoretical signaling rate of my Internet cable modem speed. I noticed that the download speeds on wireless are only a fraction of the wired Internet speeds. In both cases the highest speeds are only a fraction of the theoretical speeds, 54 mbps for 11g wireless and 100 mbps for wired Ethernet. Also the LAN wireless speed is slower than LAN wired Ethernet speeds. Why is this so? Is there a larger hardware/software overhead for wireless networking? What are the implications for Gigabit Ethernet or for 11n wireless? Thanks for the enlightenment. m. |
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