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goldengold
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 Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: Slower on wireless than by cable. |
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I used to be connected to tha internetz by cable, but know I am on wireless and I noticed that it's a lot slower. Is this normal?
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Disable your wireless firewall.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| The Immortal wrote: | | Disable your wireless firewall. |
Don't listen to him he is stupid,
Wireless G has a theoretical limit of 54Mbps (Megabits)
while wireless N has a theoretical limit of 360 Mbps, while a cable has a limit of 1000 Mbps (Cat 5E/6 RJ45/ETHERNET). Wireless is much slower than a wired connection.
If you want more speed, get back to wired. If you want freedom go with wireless!
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If he were getting the theoretical limit of 54mbps, he wouldn't be complaining about it being slow.
It could be a number of issues, ranging from the router to the wireless card (wireless modem), to interference blocking the signal (this isn't likely unless you live in a microwave).
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54 mbits is a lot of speed... that's almost 6 megabytes/s.
check your wireless signal, my wireless upstairs hauls a surprising amount of ass.
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Saifallofjmr
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| slovach wrote: | 54 mbits is a lot of speed... that's almost 6 megabytes/s.
check your wireless signal, my wireless upstairs hauls a surprising amount of ass. |
But you have to think about also packet loss do to interference to things also while wired doesn't have alot of that nor overhead. Wired will ALWAYS be better and faster than wireless.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Saifallofjmr wrote: | | The Immortal wrote: | | Disable your wireless firewall. |
Don't listen to him he is stupid,
Wireless G has a theoretical limit of 54Mbps (Megabits)
while wireless N has a theoretical limit of 360 Mbps, while a cable has a limit of 1000 Mbps (Cat 5E/6 RJ45/ETHERNET). Wireless is much slower than a wired connection.
If you want more speed, get back to wired. If you want freedom go with wireless! |
Totally Agree...
Try getting closer to your modem/router, that might slightly improve wireless signal.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Saifallofjmr wrote: | | slovach wrote: | 54 mbits is a lot of speed... that's almost 6 megabytes/s.
check your wireless signal, my wireless upstairs hauls a surprising amount of ass. |
But you have to think about also packet loss do to interference to things also while wired doesn't have alot of that nor overhead. Wired will ALWAYS be better and faster than wireless. |
I routinely drop 2mb/s+ over my wireless.
Obviously it's faster, but wireless is fine if you have a decent signal / adapter.
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Well, I got a cable now so I guess this can be locked now.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| While wireless G has a theoretical limit of 54mbps, it's actually about half that in practice. Then when you add in factors such as slowdown from having to encrypt packets, interference, distance from the router, objects blocking the router etc. it's easy to see how you might only get a quarter of that 54mbps, if that, which is slower than a lot of peoples connections.
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