Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 13, 2006 06:58 PM
So it seems that the WLAN card you are using is an 802.11b card? If so the 11Mb/s rate is the "raw" radio rate (on air) and in practice you cannot get more than 4-5Mb/s of real data. Just try to benchmark it yourselves with iperf or similar network bandwith testing SW..
Remember that the radio also need to do signalling over air (ACK for received data packets, retransmits of lost/malformed packets), plus the modulation in 11b is not as efficient as the one used in 11g/11a.
Ofcourse it helps a lot to have a good signal between the two WLAN radios.
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Re:Wirelessly streaming video?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 13, 2006 06:58 PMIf so the 11Mb/s rate is the "raw" radio rate (on air) and in practice you cannot get more than 4-5Mb/s of real data. Just try to benchmark it yourselves with iperf or similar network bandwith testing SW..
Remember that the radio also need to do signalling over air (ACK for received data packets, retransmits of lost/malformed packets), plus the modulation in 11b is not as efficient as the one used in 11g/11a.
Ofcourse it helps a lot to have a good signal between the two WLAN radios.
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