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I just bought a Dell desktop, Win 10. I want to know what is the best
net connection. The PC isphysically located real close to my Net cable modem, so it would be easy to connect via Ethernet. I am not sure if Killer e2400 ethernet is a good choice, based upon on line reviews. That is the ethernet interface that came with my PC. My other choice is clearly wireless. Is that Killer e2400 a "good" choice? Which would be the fastest connection: Wwireless or Ethernet? BTW I am definitely NOT a PC gamer |
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I just bought a Dell desktop, Win 10. I want to know what is the best net connection. The PC isphysically located real close to my Net cable modem, so it would be easy to connect via Ethernet. I am not sure if Killer e2400 ethernet is a good choice, based upon on line reviews. That is the ethernet interface that came with my PC. My other choice is clearly wireless. Is that Killer e2400 a "good" choice? Which would be the fastest connection: Wwireless or Ethernet? BTW I am definitely NOT a PC gamer E2400 is GbE. https://www.killernetworking.com/products/killer-e2400 And, it's pretty ordinary now. It's actually an *Attansic* chip. https://techreport.com/review/29144/...eight-years-on I hear it's capable of using some NDIS driver and being an "ordinary" NIC. No longer is there a place to run Linux inside the chip. The routing layer the chip used to have, has now been moved into the Windows domain :-/ Evil evil marketing genius. The only way they could have made this "better" is if they used a RealTek NIC chip and just spray painted over the name. ******* If I look over on the SmallNetBuilder site, in a lot of cases the Wifi gives 100MB/sec on a good day. A GbE on the other hand, gives 112MB/sec best case. So it's a wash, when the Wifi is a good one, and all the gear is "in the same class". Mixing older Wifi with newer Wifi causes fallback behavior (20MHz channel width), which may compromise performance. Whereas with the wired case, the performance at the PHY layer is pretty consistent. Where we can't gain traction, is the OS and file sharing. It seems Win10 Server editions, you can dial file sharing to use 100% of the link (like it was intended to be). The desktop ****es around with giving a fraction of the wired connection. This really really irritates me. And it's the sole reason I have a plan to "over-buy" gear for local networking, just to compensate for the lack of desktop policy settings. So if you test a large number of "from-to" combinations when doing file sharing, sooner or later you're going to see the link running at 60MB/sec when transferring a big file, and then you'll be wondering why. And it might not be an issue with the PHY layer, but some arbitrary choice by MS folks. Some days, I do see 112MB/sec, but it's not consistent enough I can give you a from-to table from memory. Paul |
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Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:05:55 -0500, wrote: I just bought a Dell desktop, Win 10. I want to know what is the best net connection. The PC isphysically located real close to my Net cable modem, so it would be easy to connect via Ethernet. I am not sure if Killer e2400 ethernet is a good choice, based upon on line reviews. That is the ethernet interface that came with my PC. My other choice is clearly wireless. Is that Killer e2400 a "good" choice? Which would be the fastest connection: Wwireless or Ethernet? It may change one of these days, but for now ethernet is faster than wireless. The absolute best Wifi is the 60GHz one, that delivers ~700MB/sec at a distance of five feet. (Woopee!) However, if you step into the next room, it works no better than a $10 Edimax dongle. It still works, just no longer fast, and it switches to 2.4GHz or 5GHz with the rest of the regular Wifi. It has fall-back behavior, if the 60GHz signal disappears. So that one is a line-of-sight technology. 60GHz won't penetrate walls, and probably won't go through an open door frame or down a hallway. Lots of the graphs I see on SmallNetBuilder site for Wifi, are not very impressive at all. There's nothing remotely approaching the "hype" or "marketing" rate on the package. The best place to try to test for "heroic" performance, is on a farm where you don't have any neighbors, and the only Wifi signals are the ones you control. Then, if the standard you're using has 40MHz or 80MHz channel width options, they might actually turn that feature on. Paul |
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