Can "Enhanced G" really reach 125Mbps?

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:53:38 -0500, ohaya wrote in :

Correct. You do in fact have a 54 Mbps connection.

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ohaya hath wroth:

That's what you'll get with 54Mbits/sec connection speed. You're not getting a 125Mbit/sec connection.

At what distance were you testing? 54Mbits/sec craps out at about 15 meters range (using the stock antennas and a typical laptop client). Using my rule-of-thumb, you get half the range for 4 times the connection speed. So, 125Mbit/sec should crap out at about 11 meters range.

One thing to watch for is that the connection speed indicated by the wireless clients status monitor will show variations in connection speed. The usual algorithm is to go as fast as you can when there's no traffic (duh!), and then slow down when there's traffic to deal with the errors. To the casual observer, it may look like you're getting a 54Mbit/sec (or faster) connection, but unless you monitor the traffic with a sniffer, or that the status page is fairly fast on updating the speeds, you'll never see the reduction in connection speed.

Jeff,

I think that the distance is about 15 feet.

I saw your earlier post in this thread, where you mentioned that it may be worst with 802.11b compatibility enabled, which it is (what the router setup calls "b+g"). I'll try to iperf tests again with the router set to "g" only.

Thanks, Jim

ohaya hath wroth:

I did some testing in the past. See:

for numbers. The results were weird. I actually got better preformance with the 802.11b compatibility mode enabled, than with it off. No clue why. I should probably retest with current hardware and firmware (yet another project).