Wireless B vs. G Networks?

Question

I know their is an advertised 5 times difference in speed for the G network. But, in practice when transferring files has anyone ever been able to achieve this difference??

Answer 1

These speed quotes refer to the physical layer frame rate. You by no means will ever get near achieving these rates at the application layer, by design it is impossible.

You will definitely see a difference in the performance of 802.11b and 802.11g. From a practical sense, you probably looking at a maximum rate of around 6 Mbps for 802.11b and 24 Mbps for 802.11g. Of course the average rate will be even less.

If you are operating your AP in b/g compatible mode (802.11b and 802.11g clients connected to the same AP), the percieved rate of the 802.11g client will decrease because it is sharing the channel with the 802.11b client which will therefore slow it's rate down.

Answer 2

It is impossible to get the factory rates of a g or b network. So many factors including traffic, distance, security configuration etc will impact on the speeds.

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Answer 3

G is certainly much fester than B but when it comes to transmission speed, it all depends upon the traffic in your ISP's/server's area. It never works as advertised.

Answer 4

There is a definite speed increase with Wireless G.

Wireless B is 11Mbps and Wireless G is 54Mbps.

Answer 5

We changed over quite quickly after G came out...Depending on walls and things I can usually get that 54 transfer rate...so yes.

Answer 6

it's going to improve the cost between the laptop and the pc if the pc has a instantaneous N card. It won't substitute your internet velocity, as a results of fact G is already swifter than your internet velocity.