Thread: faster wireless speed?

Fudge me....I'm not exactly non-versed on computers but I could hardly follow a word of what was said in this topic!

Draft N will is generally much better. The range is just better than 802.11b/g because of improvements in radio tech. and phys. transfer rates. Seems to do a much better job in homes with lots of walls and angles, that cause some problems for reception for b/g routers.

The obviuos problem with "pre-n" is due to the lack of an adopted standard, companies implement things differently so it seems to be hit or miss with people and different deployment scenarios. Once things get consistent, I think it will make wireless networks in the home a much better experience.

Just a quick note; depending on where you live even in NA you may see a difference in speeds between 802.11b and g. I have an 8 MBit cable connection at home and it has some thing called "powerboost" by Comcast. I am not sure how PB works, but on my cabled machine I almost had a heart attack the day after they implemented it, and I downloaded IE7 from microsoft at 1280 kbps.

To be fair, you can almost see Redmond from the space needle... But I routinely hit 800-900 kbps on downloads, and the my connection's latency has dropped, too.

However, I am using a cabled connection on that computer at 100Mbps. My wife's laptop has a 802.11g in it and gets 54Mbps throughout our apartment, but it is still noticeably slower on large file transfers. Why is this? I really don't know. Looking at the numbers, it shouldn't make a bit of difference, since the connection is capped at 8 Mbps, each computer should easily be able to max out the connection. It just doesn't seem to work that way.

If anyone has a more technical reason, I'd love to hear it

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Fudge me....I'm not exactly non-versed on computers but I could hardly follow a word of what was said in this topic!

Well funny how things happen around here. Almost like that game where people are in a circle and whisper something to the person next to them... By the time it gets to post number 12 or so it is a new topic.

Just to clarify things Mr LX, I just wanted to know if my internet connection would improve (faster) if I upgraded to Super G. Range is not a problem.

Thanks Wok!
Glen