802.11g speed and dsl

[Marta Galochino]

I have DSL access to the Internet and have bought a WLAN 802.11g .
The speed promissed is 54mbps (6912KBps) but when I test the speed in the
internet I only get about 90kBps download speed.
My question is: is 54mbps then the speed I can get only in the local network
and I am limited with the speed in the internet by my DSL speed conection
(about 90 KBps).? If that is the case, would I have got the same download
speed with a cheaper card like 802.11b?

[druck]

On 12 Jul 2004 "Marta Galochino" <marta.g...@mytum.de> wrote:
> I have DSL access to the Internet and have bought a WLAN 802.11g .
> The speed promissed is 54mbps (6912KBps) but when I test the speed in the
> internet I only get about 90kBps download speed.

Are your B/b's the same there? Small 'b's means bits, large 'B's mean bytes.

> My question is: is 54mbps then the speed I can get only in the local
> network and I am limited with the speed in the internet by my DSL speed
> conection (about 90 KBps).? If that is the case, would I have got the same
> download speed with a cheaper card like 802.11b?

For a start wireless networking never actually achives anything near to its
stated speeds, even under perfect conditions. 802.11b is rated at 11Mb/s but
pratically only acheives around 5.5Mb/s (680KB/s). 802.11g is rated at 54Mb/s
but only gives around 22Mb/s (2.75MB/s).

But when accessing the internet, whatever type or wired or wireless network
you have, it wont exceed the DSL connection speed, which is likely to be
512Kb/s (64KB/s) or 1Mb/s (128KB/s). If you are getting 90KB/s, you probably
have 1Mb/s DSL.

---druck

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