[MLB-WIRELESS] Transfer Rates

[Rowan Wainwright-Smith]

Cameron,

transfer rates are a little tricky, 'coz there are two ways of 
measureing them

1    PURE Bandwidth - how many BITS per second!
2.   Transfer performance (usually measured in BYTES per second)

The stats you are getting are pretty reasonable, but you should be able 
to get about 550(-600)k/sec


these cards are 11 Mbit,

if you work it out, you are getting about 2.5mbit transfer rate (not 
counting TCP overheads) Bear in mind that these devices are 11mbit TOTAL 
bandwidth, so if you have two PC's communicating, then you can really 
only expect up to approx 5Mbit transfer, 3PC's then about 3.5 Mbit & so on.

Wireless is NOT switched bandwidth like most modern wired networks, but 
shared (like running a hub instead of a full switch)
 Personally not sure about what effect using an AP is having, but this 
*could* be reasonable!

maybe the rest of the list can help you more....

well done on getting your WLan up & running!

Rowan

Cameron Donaghey wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>   I have eventually got my wireless up and running, only on a private 
> level at the moment, and
> yet I am not entirely sure it is running correctly. I have two 
> machines and in each one I have
> a Compaq WL100 card set to infrastructure mode. I also have a linksys 
> Wap11 access point
> which is running as an access point only.
> I have done some testing and I seem to have a max. transfer rate 
> between the two machines
> of about 310kb/s and the machines are only a meter or so apart. I 
> would have assumed that
> being a 11mb/s network that I would be able to achieve more so around 
> 500-1000kb/s rather
> than the 300kb/s max. I am currently achieving. Both card say they 
> have "excellent connections"
> and at 11mb/s.
> My question to you all, is the transfer speed of about 300kb/s typical 
> for 802.11b or should I be
> able to achieve higher rates of transfer? If I should be able to 
> achieve more would anyone have
> any suggestions towards resolving the problem?
>   Thanks very much,
>      Cameron Donaghey
>
 

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