Cable Forum - View Single Post - Slow Speeds with wireless and 50mb broadband

qasdfdsaq · 30-01-2011, 14:08

65mbps *is* an 'N' speed, the lowest spec one but still N nonetheless. 'G' caps out at 54mbps.

A 65mbps could give you about ~45mbps acual web throughput with good equipment under ideal conditions so I'm not surprised you're getting less. It should ideally be connecting at 130/144mbps for best performance.

Wireless devices only transmit when they are actively sending data (i.e. loading a web page) so activities like Facebook certainly shouldn't take up half the bandwidth. But again if everything's only running at 65mbps, you probably only had ~30-40mbps of bandwidth in the first place, and there's a lot of overheads associated with older equipment on the network...

30-01-2011, 14:08	#4
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: Slow Speeds with wireless and 50mb broadband 65mbps is an 'N' speed, the lowest spec one but still N nonetheless. 'G' caps out at 54mbps. A 65mbps could give you about ~45mbps acual web throughput with good equipment under ideal conditions so I'm not surprised you're getting less. It should ideally be connecting at 130/144mbps for best performance. Wireless devices only transmit when they are actively sending data (i.e. loading a web page) so activities like Facebook certainly shouldn't take up half the bandwidth. But again if everything's only running at 65mbps, you probably only had ~30-40mbps of bandwidth in the first place, and there's a lot of overheads associated with older equipment on the network...