"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message news:v2uaf1t7jrvdbjcr7ld0a7noo01hopqinl@4ax.com...
> 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.

OK what is a switch and how would it attach to the router? Does it go in one of the port openings which then has more port openings which the machines then hook into? The trouble is each port opening has an IP address. Would a switch having more that one port have trouble with IP address coming out of one port on the router?

I have just gotten a Hub but I think I'll ask about this seperately.

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George Hester
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