 dancy70Premium
join:2005-01-29
Hudson, FL | Speed vs. useful speed I know, I know ... this story is about AT&T, but ... Verizon just raised my FIOS speed to 20/5 because of a phone plan change. The speed is nice, but, alas, most of the laptops connected to my 6-computer (+guests) network have older 802.11b cards, so I am maxed out at somewhat under 11 Mps wireless, while getting 19 Mps+ wired. At the old 5/2, I never noticed  The point: sometimes raw speed is not the whole story and, for some, the increase in speed may actually turn out to be somewhat of a dissatisfier. |
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join:2001-01-03
Chicago, IL
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| said by dancy70:I know, I know ... this story is about AT&T, but ... Verizon just raised my FIOS speed to 20/5 because of a phone plan change. The speed is nice, but, alas, most of the laptops connected to my 6-computer (+guests) network have older 802.11b cards, so I am maxed out at somewhat under 11 Mps wireless, while getting 19 Mps+ wired. At the old 5/2, I never noticed The point: sometimes raw speed is not the whole story and, for some, the increase in speed may actually turn out to be somewhat of a dissatisfier. Upgrade your lame cards and take advantage of all that speed that they are offering. I work from home and upload at a lousy 384kbps is pain in the ass. I would love 20/5, it would awesome.
I once again wonder what is wrong with American Broadband that we have such unequal access to good service in the birthplace of the internet?
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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 pc319Premium
join:2002-04-24
North Royalton, OH | reply to dancy70
Your wireless card speeds are up to 11 Megabytes per second. Your Internet speeds are up to 20 Megabits per second (which equals 2.5 Megabytes per second). Unless your wireless signal sucks you should be fine. |
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 B52GUNRKM 7D love and D3 NirvanaPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-06
Vallejo, CA
1 edit | Uh. Wrong. 802.11b is 11 Mbps (small "b" - bits). 11 MBps (big "B" means bytes) would be 88 megabits per second, which is about what you get over 100 Mbps ethernet.
ETA: Due to the nature of 802.11x, realized throughput is about half of rated speed (5 Mbps on b, 20 on g). |
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said by pc319:Your wireless card speeds are up to 11 Megabytes per second. Your Internet speeds are up to 20 Megabits per second (which equals 2.5 Megabytes per second). Unless your wireless signal sucks you should be fine. ROFLMAO! |
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