On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:51:26 GMT, "George Hester"
<hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:

>My router is maxed out with four ports. The router also has a wrireless setup. There is IP room for more machines on the Network. My ISP is a cable modem. What do you think would be the performance if I put another machine on the Network but with a wireless PCI Network adaptor? The computer with the wireless card will be about 6 ft away on the diagonal and about 2ft below the horizontal of the router. The stuff between the machine and the router is a desk and chair.


If you want utmost performance (especially so close that
intra-wall cable isn't necessary) consider adding a switch
to your router to give you additinal ports.

A rough approximation of wireless performance would be you'd
get performance in the 15-25Mbps range with
supposed-54/108Mbps 802.11g, or about 3/5ths of that with
802.11b. The disparty is the difference between theoretical
transfer and real-world rates after overhead, interference,
TCPIP and wifi overhead and other misc issues are factored
in.