Does Modem Speed Count?

> Ok this may be a really dumb question - but what is the point of having a
> wireless router boasting 108 Mbps, when the modem it is connected to has a
> speed of 8 Mbps?

Because you might want to communicate with another device locally via
wireless for file sharing for example.

David.

Ok this may be a really dumb question - but what is the point of having a
wireless router boasting 108 Mbps, when the modem it is connected to has a
speed of 8 Mbps?

gb

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:53:29 +0100, "Gary Bell" <gb@hatchpool.com>
wrote:

>Ok this may be a really dumb question - but what is the point of having a
>wireless router boasting 108 Mbps, when the modem it is connected to has a
>speed of 8 Mbps?

The marketing guys just love big numbers. The bigger the better. The
higher speeds are useful for computer to computer connections through
the access point or router. This is good for file transfers, backups,
and gaming. If you have a local video server (i.e. TIVO), speed is
even more important. Not all traffic goes via the internet.

Incidentally, the real thruput will be about half the connection
speed.

One of the interesting side effects of the 108Mbit/sec routers is that
it has forced the manufacturers to use high performance processors in
the routers. That's normally not a benifit until you activate a large
number of rules, services, and features which causes the processor to
get overloaded. Basically, they run better in complex configurations.



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"David Taylor" <djtaylor@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d98f07228cdf1a989e3d@news.cable.ntlworld .com...
> > Ok this may be a really dumb question - but what is the point of having
a
> > wireless router boasting 108 Mbps, when the modem it is connected to has
a
> > speed of 8 Mbps?
>
> Because you might want to communicate with another device locally via
> wireless for file sharing for example.
>
> David.

Yes, that's true (said it was a dumb question).

However we are told that 24 Mbps ADSL speed is theoretically possible and in
fact some ISP's are about to trot out some services giving this speed
(apparently?).

So where does that leave us all with our 8 Mbps modems?

gb

Gary Bell wrote:

> However we are told that 24 Mbps ADSL speed is theoretically possible and
> in fact some ISP's are about to trot out some services giving this speed
> (apparently?).
>
> So where does that leave us all with our 8 Mbps modems?

Right where the DSL company wants you - begging for an upgrade :-(
--
derek

Sure, modem speed does count. 8Mbs is "three faster" than 5Mbs. :^)

(I know what you meant.)

Seriously, even if the only thing you want network wirelessly is just
internet traffic, go with 802.11g

Vanilla 802.11b's 11Mbs never actually "goes to eleven". It'll bottleneck
8Mbs traffic.

> Vanilla 802.11b's 11Mbs never actually "goes to eleven". It'll bottleneck
> 8Mbs traffic.

It never claims to deliver 11Mbps throughput, it's an 11Mbps datarate.
Big difference.