Re: Router speeds...

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Dr. Neal Krawetz wrote:

<<snip>>
> So my question is, are all wireless routers slow?

All?

Generally "slow wireless" means either no/bad/poorly positioned 
external antenna on the AP or, more commonly, interference from 
surrounding devices in the same/close spectrum slice (most likely 
neighbours' WiFi networks on the same channel).  Another issue I've 
seen reported (I'm not a big user or supporter of WiFi) is that some 
(all?, cheaper??) APs drop back to the slowest speed for _all_ 
communications for any device they see trying to connect/reliably 
connecting.  In the latter case, a loosely (aka OOTB default) 
configured home WiFi AP (not saying yours is -- in fact, would exepct 
the opposite!) would be slowed by any older (802.11b) or marginally in-
range device configured to connect to ANY...

> I know that wireless is slower than wired, but why should having a
> wireless router slow down the wired connection?
> Do all vendors dumb down to the slowest common denominator?

All?

Dunno about slowing down the wired connection, BUT have seen similar 
suggestions/complaints from clueful users of older APs (in one case, 
disabling the very old 802.11b built into a laptop that had been 
retired to being a (wired!) print server saw a 5-6 times improvement in 
reported DSL throughput in the same kind of configuration as your cable 
test, both from wired and 802.11g clients).


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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