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Re: Router speeds...
From: Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:28:30 +0000
On 11/26/05, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
Dr. Neal Krawetz wrote:
So my question is, are all wireless routers slow?
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...
Ja, I think they transmit A, B and G. B slows down A and G is just B wioth some compression stuff. Your ap will go :send .a @ 54, send .b @ 11, send g? ok g = .b compressed, but G is an add on (or so I was told) It stands to reason though, that as only one processor is on the box, they have to split the processor time between all "standard" protocols that each one would have to load a different packet format and data scheme then transmit, then switch to the next one. mebe three dedicated nics? one for each standard? -JP "Thats a lot of overhead for an AP thats gotta get me an 800 MB tiff of the Olsen Twins in 3 minutes" -JP
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?
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- Re: Router speeds... Roland Dobbins (Nov 25)
- Re: Router speeds... Dr. Neal Krawetz (Nov 25)
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- Re: Router speeds... Nick FitzGerald (Nov 25)
- Re: Router speeds... Dude VanWinkle (Nov 25)
- Re: Router speeds... Dr. Neal Krawetz (Nov 26)
- Re: Router speeds... Chris Buechler (Nov 28)
- Re: Router speeds... Chris Buechler (Nov 25)
- Re: Router speeds... Roland Dobbins (Nov 25)
- Re: Router speeds... Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 25)
- Re: Router speeds... Chris Buechler (Nov 28)
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- Re: Router speeds... Dr. Neal Krawetz (Nov 26)
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