Speed testing
 

I have over the last few days been testing some wireless products for my company at home. i am not going to mention names but i tried 3 different manufacturers all with similar results of throughput. setup was adifferent matter anyway here's the results (might shock you)

I tested with nothing else connected to the cable modem and used an accesspoint and pcmcia card from the same manufacturer in each case.

the test machine was a dell laptop 3ghz 2Gb ram--in other words a good spec. each time loaded with a clean win xp pro.

Now i found that wireless 802.11G no one got above 7 Mb so i got concerned that my download speed was "iffy" and as a result and a benchmark connected via my inbuilt broadcom network card straight to cable modem.

each test was repeated 30 times avaerages are shown as well as peak:-

here's the results:-

MANUFACTURER 1 6.15 Mb down 468K up Average 6.30 down 489K up

MANUFACTURER 2 5.85 Mb down 456K up Average 6.11 down 481K up

MANUFACTURER 3 6.06 Mb down 470K up Average 6.23 down 499K up

100mb lan 8.91Mb down 510K up Average 9.76Mb up 517K down peak

I then dug out "old trusty" which is a compaq wl110 802.11b (11mb) wireless card and a matching 802.11b access point.

2.99Mb down 389k up average 3.29Mb up 414K down Peak.

so if your running a speed test it suggests that wireless lan will give you a "false reading" has anyone else noticed this or have i just wasted 7 Hours of testing (as i will have to re-do it)

---------- Post added at 15:13 ---------- Previous post was at 15:05 ----------

why was this moved?

it directly relates to problems with speed testing on the ntl network and how un-reliable they could be

should have benn made a sticky i would have thought?

Re: Speed testing
 

I'm guessing it was moved because all it seems to suggest (IMHO) is that all 3 wireless points give slower results that a direct connection to the CM. In that case, it's not an NTL issue, but rather a Wires vs wireless issue.

Maybe I missed the point....

Re: Speed testing
 

yes but how often will someone test there speed moan:shocked: its not up to much complain:sleep: post and waste everyones time just coz there on a wireless connection:dunce:?