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09-12-2004, 04:57 PM
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Location: Melbourne
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Hi Guys
I'm looking at going down the wireless route soon.
I'm hooking up a MDD g4 and an old style iMac 400, both of which natively support the older 11mbps 802.11b Airport Cards with the main purpose of being able to connect to a 512 broadband connection - networking speed between them is less important.
Knowing that the G4 can also support 54mbps with a PCI wireless card, what I want to know is:
Would I notice any difference in internet speed between the 802.11g and 802.11b?
cheers
(napes)
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09-12-2004, 05:11 PM
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not always, but I do, but I think that is because I push my internet connection to the limit, if you get what i mean!
You would notice it more if you transfer files between computers!
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09-12-2004, 06:30 PM
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Location: Sydney
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802.11b with perfect signal etc... typically does about 600kb/sec throughput... so unless you got cable, I can't see you doing more then 600kb/sec throughput. Which would mean it won't affect your internet transfers. However if you intend on transfering large files on your LAN, then 600kb/sec is fairly slow when transfering huge amounts of data via the gigabytes.
802.11g speeds vary from equipment.. typically I do about 2.5MB/sec with good signal etc.
YMMV
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10-12-2004, 09:25 AM
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Your wireless connection (regardless of standards, ie: 802.11b or g) will be faster then your net connection.
Also, this topic has been discussed before, in detail on these forums, search.
Essentially, your net connection is 512kbps. (88KB/s - Theoretical speed)
Your 802.11b (airport) wireless is 11Mbit. (Approx 1.3MB/s - Theoretical speed)
And your 802.11g (airport extreme) wireless is 54Mbit. (Approx 6.75MB/s - Theoretical speed)
As you can see. Your net connection is not fast as your network speed. Even the slowest (802.11b) network will still perform a little over 10 Times faster then your net connection.
So, regardless of your network speed, your net connection will not suffer.
Exaggerated example:
If the specs were switched, and your net connection was 10MB/s and your network was only 1.3Mbit/s then you'd be using about 10% of your speed.
pipsqeek
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10-12-2004, 09:59 AM
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Cheers guys  That answers I all my questions thanks
I thought that the above might be the case, but wondered if there were other factors involved that I hadn't condsidered or didn't know about. Oh, and pipsqeek, of course I searched!!! But couldn't find this question answered specifically!
cheers
(napes)
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