60MB Internet Service

Charter tells me that they will soon roll our 60mb internet service in my area. I
have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and an ordinary network card.

1. Will my hardware create a limitation on my ability to get a full 60mb service?
2. Would I see a huge benefit over my current 10mb service?

Thanks!
Scott

In news:owBrl.54573$aZ3.30425@newsfe01.iad "Bozena" <bo@bozena.biz>
wrote:

> 2. Would I see a huge benefit over my current 10mb service?

How often are you able to saturate your current connection? Most sites
you'll connect to can't offer you data at anywhere near what you
currently have.

I have a 7Mb/s DSL circuit and only machines on my own ISP's internal
network can supply data at that rate.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com

"Bozena" <bo@bozena.biz> wrote in message
news:owBrl.54573$aZ3.30425@newsfe01.iad...
> Charter tells me that they will soon roll our 60mb internet service in my
> area. I
> have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and an ordinary network card.
>
> 1. Will my hardware create a limitation on my ability to get a full 60mb
> service?
> 2. Would I see a huge benefit over my current 10mb service?
>

Wow, 60 Mb/s...

Like Bert said, it will only be as fast as whatever the remote end is
spitting out.. It would be a huge benefit downloading P2P with a lot of
seeders though.

If your internet is going to be coming in at 60 Mb/s, that WRT54G is going
to be obsolete. You are going to want to upgrade to 802.11n.

I'm happy with 8 Mb/s -- for now, anyway...

Just curious, what is the upload speed on that fire hose? :-)

"Bozena" <bo@bozena.biz> wrote in message
news:owBrl.54573$aZ3.30425@newsfe01.iad...
> Charter tells me that they will soon roll our 60mb internet service in my
> area. I
> have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and an ordinary network card.
>
> 1. Will my hardware create a limitation on my ability to get a full 60mb
> service?
> 2. Would I see a huge benefit over my current 10mb service?
>
> Thanks!
> Scott

Even with DD-WRT firmware a WRT54G is only good for about 25Mpbs.
Look using a spare computer with two network cards and installing pfSense
(www.pfsense.org) for a lower power solution good for about 70-80Mpbs check
out the www.netgate.com for one of there SBC (single board computers)
running pfSense embedded. (http://www.netgate.com/index.php?cPath=60_85)

To get that speed over wireless you'll have to try a N WAP/Router.
You can read around and find out if some of the combo router/wap's will be
able to do 60Mpbs if an all in once device is what you need.
Personally I would look into the pfsense box with added WLAN card or with a
router acting as a wap. Keep big file downloads on the LAN and use the
wireless for casual browsing and such.

Adair