Re: [PLUG] non-standard 11g

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 10:43 PM, Paul wrote:

> Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> > The article states, "Speed-boosted Wireless G routers promis as much 
> > as 108 Mbps of throughput, twice as fast as standard Wireless G 
> > products.
>
>
> The official claim by Linksys is up to a 35% speed increase.  That's 
> only an additional 18.9Mbit.  (Actually, that isn't bad compared to 
> maxing out at 11Mbit.)  
> http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=610

And in reality, it's probably not even that much.  The so-called 54 
Mbps you get on a G network is probably more like 20 Mbps, much like 
you get 3-4 on an 11 Mbps B network.

Do some throughput testing sometime, you'll see what I mean...  I just 
ran nttcp on my server as "nttcp -i -r", and on the client as "nttcp 
10.x.x.x".

The results for 2 runs were 20.5354 and 20.4639 Mbps.  The client is an 
iBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.3.4 with an AirPort Extreme card.  The AP 
is an AirPort Extreme Base, which is connected to the backbone via 100 
Mbps Ethernet.  That switch in turn uplinks into the gig core switch, 
which has the server, as well as my desktop Mac G4 on it.

--j

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