miss-piggy

LOL! Wireless is slower because you are running 54mbps through the line vs 100/1000mbps. Simple as that.

Connected to my router with about a 2' wire.


802.1g Wireless connecting at full strength 54mbps about 1.5' away from my router

Racintweek

diff server

Jorsher

You'd like to think that's the reason, but its not.

Cable = 6-8mbps in most places
802.11g = 54mbps

Tell me how something that has 6-8 times the bandwidth is going to slow the connection down? Even though 54mbps is a speed you'll never truly get, wireless is plenty fast for the connections.

So do you believe a 6" exhaust flows better on a d15 than a 4"?

It's plenty either way.

miss-piggy

Um, comparing exhaust fluids to wifi doesn't exactly work....

I challenge anyone to compare their wireless speed to their hardline speed. Keep the distances close to the router and make sure your signal strength is 100% and you are connecting at a full 54mbps. Once you are offering 10mbps downstream, you will start noticing significant differences. Sub 10mbps, the differences are less significant. It all has to do with bandwith. The more, the better. I'm sure if I was running a gigabit line, my download speed would increase.

I've done the test a number of times with a number of different computers with a number of different routers. Results are always the same. Hardline is faster due to increased bandwith and wireless just being inefficient due to packet loss in the air.

Random Hero

it works way different then before, Now you basically grab a different preconfig file that is floating around comcast's pool so you get faster speeds, you can't really "uncapp" unless you want to get instantly caught, no ones getting caught just using other configs

Secondaries

I have Elite DSL from AT&T/SBC, the most expensive package, and I'm pretty unhappy.



That's through wireless and shared between 3 computers and two PS3's. The speeds are so-so, as I usually get the advertised 3-6Mbps. But the internet is always going down momentarily and SBC refuses to help us out. They just say that since, at the time they run their tests, we're getting the advertised speeds, they can't send anyone out or do any other testing.

The only reason I'm reluctant to go to Cable is because they're traffic shaping and limiting people who torrent. Once the Net Neutrality Act or whatever they're calling it these days goes through, maybe then.

Also, buk, are you high? My DSL is 6 Mbps download and 748 kbps upload. That's slower than pretty much the slowest cable can get.

Scott-EP

try a different channel, mine was on 6 and really slow. Then I changed it to 11 and it made a huge difference.

Random Hero

comcast gave in, No more torrent throttling :-)

Jorsher

Looking at it in a more general sense, the comparison works just fine. Bandwidth is plenty for the internet bandwidth.

I guess I just have a great wireless network, but I was always able to get the speed ratings I was supposed to a couple rooms away on a wireless g network. With 0 packet errors.

Jorsher

How would this be accomplished? Comcast has your modem model/mac and you can find out what model hardware you have by the mac address. I would think that the config files would be different for different models, and anyway the configs all have the same speeds. Again, every time the modem is booted, it's checked with the Comcast servers and the correct bootfile is given. Do you have a link on this new way?

Yup, channel 6 is usually the default for wireless routers. If you're around others, you're probably going to have interference. There is only so much you can transfer on each channel, and with more people on the same one, it's more likely to be maxed out.

Comcast was the only one I'm aware of that was throttling traffic, and they don't do it any more as Random Hero said. A lot of people got pretty pissed and it was getting taken to the FTC.