shoreke hath wroth:
>Any opinions on the Linkysys wireless-N router? It got lukewarm
>reviews last summer from PcMag and Toms Hardware.
Yep. Basically what they said about draft 802.11n routers is that
they don't really offer any improvement over more conventional 802.11g
wireless devices and are anything but interoperable with other draft
802.11n devices.
<http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/draft_11n_revealed_part1/>
<http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/draft_11n_revealed_part2/>
>There have been
>firmware upgrades since then. I've had good luck with Linksys
>equipment for years, so despite the negative reviews, I took the
>plunge last week and bought the WRT300N router and WPC300N notebook
>adapter. My cable modem is the Motorola SB5120. My ISP is Comcast and
>I routinely connect at an astounding 270 Mbps.
Holdit. That's your wireless connection speed, not your thruput. My
laptop connects at 54Mbits/sec but only transfers files at perhaps
22Mbits/sec. What you need to do is run a local speed test, without
the cable modem creating a bottleneck.
<http://www.noc.ucf.edu/Tools/Iperf/default.htm>
Run:
iperf -h
for help and syntax examples.
Find a wired ethernet connected PC and run IPerf 1.70 in server mode
as just:
iperf -s
On your wireless laptop, run IPerf as a client as in:
iperf -c ip_addr_of_server
You should get a real file transfer speed, instead of just the
connection speed.
>The servers at
>Speedtest.net produce download speed results over 15Mbps.
Duz your cable ISP offer "burstable" speeds, where the nominal
download speed is 6Mbits/sec, but which might go to several times that
for short periods of time?
>I am happy
>so far. My only regret is not getting the WRT350N with the wired
>gigabit switch.
Maximum wire speed for 100baseT-FDX is typically about 88Mbits/sec.
I'll believe you need more than that when I see the results of IPerf.
This is what I get between my junk desktop and my Panasonic CF-M34
laptop with a Netgear WG511 card going through a WRT54GS v3.? router
with a connection speed of 54Mbits/sec, but where there's all kinds of
traffic moving (SNMP, syslog, ping probes, etc) with the 802.11b
compatibility mode enabled and light 802.11b traffic. It's usually
about 20Mbits/sec but I think I've got some water in my outdoor coax
and antenna. I get roughly the same lousy 16.6Mbits/sec results in
either direction. I'm very interested in what you get with your new
Linksys setup.
C:\IPerf> iperf -c 192.168.1.116
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.116, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[840] local 192.168.1.11 port 2212 connected with 192.168.1.116 port
5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[840] 0.0-10.0 sec 19.9 MBytes 16.6 Mbits/sec
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