Does Modem Speed Count?

The marketing guys just love big numbers. The bigger the better. The higher speeds are useful for computer to computer connections through the access point or router. This is good for file transfers, backups, and gaming. If you have a local video server (i.e. TIVO), speed is even more important. Not all traffic goes via the internet.

Incidentally, the real thruput will be about half the connection speed.

One of the interesting side effects of the 108Mbit/sec routers is that it has forced the manufacturers to use high performance processors in the routers. That's normally not a benifit until you activate a large number of rules, services, and features which causes the processor to get overloaded. Basically, they run better in complex configurations.

Reply to
Jeff Liebermann
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Right where the DSL company wants you - begging for an upgrade :-(

Reply to
Derek Broughton

Because you might want to communicate with another device locally via wireless for file sharing for example.

David.

Reply to
David Taylor

Ok this may be a really dumb question - but what is the point of having a wireless router boasting 108 Mbps, when the modem it is connected to has a speed of 8 Mbps?

gb

Reply to
Gary Bell

Yes, that's true (said it was a dumb question).

However we are told that 24 Mbps ADSL speed is theoretically possible and in fact some ISP's are about to trot out some services giving this speed (apparently?).

So where does that leave us all with our 8 Mbps modems?

gb

Reply to
Gary Bell

Sure, modem speed does count. 8Mbs is "three faster" than 5Mbs. :^)

(I know what you meant.)

Seriously, even if the only thing you want network wirelessly is just internet traffic, go with 802.11g

Vanilla 802.11b's 11Mbs never actually "goes to eleven". It'll bottleneck

8Mbs traffic.
Reply to
Eric

It never claims to deliver 11Mbps throughput, it's an 11Mbps datarate. Big difference.

Reply to
David Taylor

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