[MLB-WIRELESS] Question for the brainstrust

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 10:57 AM 8/11/2006, Fenn Bailey wrote:

>Anyone got any experience as to real-world achievable speeds over indoor
>short distances with .11g? I have 24Mbps iiNet (and live only about 180m
>from the exchange), and I hate my bottleneck to be the last 10m within my
>house!

Well, it could well be.  I do have a spreadsheet of some actual test 
results done over verious distances from 50m (with massive signals ;) 
) to 400+m.  The 50m case would be basically similar to indoor work, 
but from memory, the short range top speed was a little below the 
often quoted 20 Mbps, would have to look, but in the 15-20 Mbps 
range, off the top of my head.  It is also highly hardware 
dependent.  Some wireless devices can't even manage 5Mbps, others 
will approach the 20, no dramas.  The AP in the tests was a WRT45G 
(V3 I think) running DD-WRT.  All tests were client - AP (the server 
was connected to the AP over Ethernet (100Mbps)).

For raw speed and stability, wires rule. ;)  I connected my media PC 
via Cat 5, despite the fact that I have good wireless signals there, 
and the cable run required a lot of crawling under the house, because 
I wanted a rock stable, fast as possible connection to move gigs of 
stuff around on. :-)

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