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My wireless is .8 MBS faster at home compared to plugging right into the fat pipe.
rocky_road
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soory hotzie but im going to post another internetish question. can platinum members hit with more than their karmic power?
Oh Dear God, here we go 
hotzie said:
I'm goin to bed mang...I was just setting the tone for a good read tomorrow
Only1eagle
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What is your router? Some are b, G extreme G etc and now there are some new ones.
In all reality unless you have a gig nic you wont notice any difference as long as the wireless signal is not strong.
In all reality unless you have a gig nic you wont notice any difference as long as the wireless signal is not strong.
G-network. It was obsolete by the time I took it out of the box, get one quick.
hotzie said:
LinkSys wirless G Network. There is faster shit out there now. I dunno what it is, but I'm not spending any more dollers on it.
"Speed" is one thing, "bandwidth" is another.
To some folks speed means latency or "ping time" and it matters more to them than their bandwidth -- if you're a game player, you're sending and receiving a lot of little packets and you want them RIGHT NOW. Adding complication to your network (more "hops") can only make it worse. There is a hard limit on how good it can get -- namely the speed of light.
Bandwidth, on the other hand, is about how much data you can move in the same length of time. How quickly the page completes, how long it takes to get the whole mp3. Between boxes inside your house, Wireless-g is good for 54Mbit/sec, about half what you get with wired... but that's not bad. Once you hit the cable modem, you're going to be lucky to see 0.7Mbit/sec (that's 700Kbit, twelve times as fast as the best dialup) so it doesn't matter a whole lot whether you're wired or wireless as far as the Internet goes.
To some folks speed means latency or "ping time" and it matters more to them than their bandwidth -- if you're a game player, you're sending and receiving a lot of little packets and you want them RIGHT NOW. Adding complication to your network (more "hops") can only make it worse. There is a hard limit on how good it can get -- namely the speed of light.
Bandwidth, on the other hand, is about how much data you can move in the same length of time. How quickly the page completes, how long it takes to get the whole mp3. Between boxes inside your house, Wireless-g is good for 54Mbit/sec, about half what you get with wired... but that's not bad. Once you hit the cable modem, you're going to be lucky to see 0.7Mbit/sec (that's 700Kbit, twelve times as fast as the best dialup) so it doesn't matter a whole lot whether you're wired or wireless as far as the Internet goes.
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UA_Iron
Guest
hotzie said:
cable modem hooked up directly,
and I'd get rid of that b-wireless and go with g-wireless
pintoca
New member
hotzie said:
let's say it simple here... despite digger's excellent post (I should hit you with grteen digs, can I call you dig?, but I'm all out, you should increase the hits to 50/day)
imagine this hotzie.
The internet comes to your house via a 1'' pipe.
inside your house, you being the big spender you are, you had 5'' pipes installed all over. Faucet, sinks, etc... all of them shit is sporting big fat 5'' pipes.
when you are shaving, you open that faucet all the say down and what does it come out? a big fat 5'' gush? NO !!! why? because the pipe coming into your house is only 1''...
what does this mean? it means you get as much water as the thinnest pipe on the way to your faucet or you are as fast as the slowest link.
This also means that as long as your faucet pipe is the same or better as your "street pipe" you are good to go.
In other words, it won't make a differnce if you hook it via wireless or directly, your bottleneck is not the wireless or the cable, your bottleneck is the internet connection.
If you had a 96Mb Internet connection then you would need to connect it directly to the router, since the maximal theorical limit of the wireless is 54mpbs and it would then be the bottleneck
