Daniel
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clubs: 
|  Guess what? Netgear wins...
Someone above pointed out the packet size and then I went back and looked at the numbers.
Netgear blew Linksys out of the water when you look at packet sizes that are used on the Internet. The ones that Linksys won in aren't even an issue when it comes to anything the router is used for. Once again you have Linksys excelling at something that isn't important I guess, i.e. packaging...
Weird how they highlighted the other packet sizes.
Kind of makes you wonder.
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Jeff_B
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Brick, NJ | Yes, and why didn't they include Zyxel? I guess Linksys gave them the most free stuff.  |
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okaven
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Daniel:
The reason for using the 3 packet sizes that we used in this test is that this seems to be the industry-standard applied by hardware manufacturers to measure throughput.
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Oliver Kaven
Project Leader, Network Infrastructure
PC Magazine Labs
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Daniel
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| said by okaven:
Daniel:
The reason for using the 3 packet sizes that we used in this test is that this seems to be the industry-standard applied by hardware manufacturers to measure throughput.
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Oliver Kaven
Project Leader, Network Infrastructure
PC Magazine Labs
oliver_kaven@ziffdavis.com
Ok, that is fair enough, but you have to admit that to many people who don't pay attention properly (like me and countless others) your report is going to look heavily in favor of the Linksys. When you do a bar chart like that and you have one product categorically trouncing another product you are inclined to look no further.
I mean, it is just a bit misleading. I accept that you had a perfectly good reason for doing it that way, but some sort of side note maybe would be a good idea. Something like, "Note: The only frames that users of these products will be seeing will be represented by the light blue bar." ... or whatever...
I don't mean to be critical, I liked the report, it's just that one tends to go by the bars when presented with a bar chart, and unless you look carefully at packet sizes you are going to come away from that report with bad information.
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