If i plug it into (wireless broadband) my laptop and then press the wireless button on my laptop i get another connection 54 mpbs aswell. P.S. I'm only paying £15.98 per month and the price hasn't gone up ever. I have it now for 4 years. I have also told my provider that i am getting this speed and they said because your house is in a wireless zone. Does anyone else have what i got. I'm living in England by the way.
2007-02-20 04:38:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
What you are seeing is the connection speed between your wireless device and the wireless router (54 Mbps). The speed between the wireless router and your Internet Service Provider is still 10 Mbps. The faster speed you see from your laptop is really only applicable for interaction with other computers on your router. Any interaction with the Internet will go through the 10 Mbps connection to the web.
Picture this as pipes in plumbing. Your router has say a 10 inch diameter pipe going to the Internet. On the back end of the router, you have 54 inch pipes leading to your laptop (and likely 100 inch pipes leading to any ethernet connected systems). Ultimately to the Internet you have to go through a 10 Mbps connection so your real speed is limited by that point in the setup.
2007-02-20 04:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by Jim Maryland 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the speed that your computer is connected to the router, not the actual internet. Imagine it like a road bridge. The 54mbps is the traffic capacity of the bridge, whereas the 10mbps is the actual traffic on the bridge. As long as the capacity is above the actual traffic, then all the traffic can flow (your computer gets all 10mbps), but if the capacity the bridge can handle falls below 10mbps, then not all the cars that want to cross the bridge can cross. Basically nothing to worry about. Your internet is 10mbps not 54mbps, thats just the wireless signal strength.
2007-02-20 04:48:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wireless G has a maximum speed of 54mbps. There is nothing you can do about this. Everyone who uses wireless will be at a max speed of 54mbps. That's just the way it was designed.
Wireless B and Wireless A were 11mbps, so Wireless G is obviously faster.
Wireless-N and Wireless Pre-N are faster, but horribly expensive.
2007-02-20 04:42:39 · answer #3 · answered by Erick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this mean that you wireless (local area network connection) is 54 mbps.. but you also have a physical ethernet connection which is 10 mbps that is also connected to the internet, if you do not have a wireless router than it is probably a neighbors wireless router you are accidentally connecting too at 54 mbps... (their wireless router's connection to the internet is more than likely the same as yours so its not going to be much faster unless its higher than 10mbps) so either connection will be about equally fast, plus it may be illegal to connect your neighbors connection, but its an accident so no big deal, they should secure their router, or give you consent to use it
2007-02-20 04:49:29 · answer #4 · answered by Matt H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 54Mbps is the transfer speed between your wireless connection and your laptop. This has no bearing on your internet connection.
Imagine that I'm the internet, and i'm serving your content ( a hamburger ) in just a paper wapper. the burger would be your content served at 10Mpbs, just like your ISP.
But imagine that i now am serving your same content, same burger and same wrapper, but now i'm serving it to you on a large plate.
This plate is the 54Mbps bandwidth. I am capable of carrying a lot more on this plate than your 10Mbps hamburger, but that's all you bought.
2007-02-20 04:43:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No problem there, but you are mistaken in that the 54 adds to your already 10, but if you are already happy I don't need to go into length it is a bit more than what we pay here for regular high speed service.
10 is what you got, what you have, what will be in the future; the saying "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link" holds very true for 'Net access.
2007-02-20 05:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are getting another signal from someones router or a WiFi hotspot....if you can log into the 54mbps then you don't need your 10mbps one...but if you want to keep yours then just ignore the 5mbps...when I go into town then I get about 6 different wireless signals....hotspots are usually around coffee shops, schools, malls, and motel/hotels....
2007-02-20 04:45:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your internet speed is only 10Mbps. Your wireless adapter that is connecting to your wireless router/access point is getting 54Mbps. Your Internet is still only getting 10Mbps. The wireless adapter will not get you faster internet.
2007-02-20 04:42:42 · answer #8 · answered by Kingsfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This isn't the old difference between MBps and Mbps raising it's ugly head again is it?
There is a huge difference. One is bits and one is Bytes (8 bits in a Byte)
2007-02-20 04:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,my speed is 100.0 mpbs
2007-02-20 04:43:18 · answer #10 · answered by david UK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋