From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 18:49:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE38416A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0741F43FA3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h9D1n3C9082749; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:49:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20031011212201.GA67228@bishop.my.domain> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 03:48:51 +0200 To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General Wireless Network Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:49:12 -0000 At 9:57 PM +0000 2003/10/12, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > "11Mbit/s" nominally. In practice, I can get ~550kbytes/s out of > it. That is very slow if you're used to Fast Ethernet. Not that > you are going to notice for web browsing. OTOH, if you copy around > CD images... In the white paper linked from , Intel says that the maximum theoretical network performance you can see with 802.11b is 6Mbps (the 11Mbps number is for the radio transmissions one-way), and that the practical maximum throughput they see with an excellent network infrastructure is about 1.5Mbps. And that's shared. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)