Can you get the same speed wireless that you can when your computer is directly connected to the router?

Question

I have a 10mbps connection. I can get this speed when the computer is wired directly to the router. Is there any way to get the same speed wireless with wpa2 encyption on?

Answer 1

A router usually have 54Mbps bandwith to share among all wireless user (regardless of how many wired conneciton that you have).

So if theres 2 users, you will share 27Mbps each. Not this is in the Best Case scenario. In real life, interference cause by wireless phone, microwave oven, electricity and the distance between you and your router all reduce the amount of bandwith available to you.

And if you add encryption to it (and i strongly suggest that you keep it) you will lose even more performance.

WIFI conneciton have a greater latency.

So if your the sole user of your wireless network with a good signal, you should be able to get 10mbps even with WPA, but theres a lot of factor that could influence your performance. If you have the choice, use the wired connection ... its faster and more secure.

Answer 2

10 mbit sounds slow.
most routers offer 4 wired LAN ports running 100mbit each. The WAN port is usually 100mbit also but most cable modems and DSL modems only push 10mbit on their LAN port. Wireless will be slower do to the overhead of the signaling. of course how far away and what is in the way and what it is made from greatly affects the signal. 802.11g usually will connect at 54mbit. In the real world that translates to 24mbit do to the send receive nature of TCP/IP. Thoughput is even slower at about 19mbit.
Throw out the fact that cellphones, bluetooth, microwave ovens, and other devices all operate on the same spectrum, and a wire connection looks pretty good.
If you have more that three 802.11 g devices your speed will also suffer. Thats just the real world truth
So to answer your question, No not yet. MIMO routers offer some help and some advertise up to 270mbit but you need matching MIMO LAN adapters to even come close.

Answer 3

Theoretically, you're starting to be the full velocity. in spite of the shown fact that, the 54mbps is a optimal (as is the 12mbps from Comcast btw), you never extremely get those speeds. depending on how far-off you're from the router, how lots metallic is between the router and community card, and different alerts interior the section (your neighbor's wireless, microwave ovens, and cordless telephones), you may nicely be getting lots worse over the instantaneous.

Answer 4

It should automatically give you the same speed wireless or direct wired.

If it doesn't, then either the line of sight from your router is not clear or something with the router is not set properly. I have a 100 mbps router with a 100 mbps netcard. Either way I do it, I get very close to the same speeds. If I don't, I know something is wrong...

Answer 5

When you go wireless(G) its usually half the speed..

eg. LAN is 100 mbps - Connected wired to the router..

Wireless 54mbps - Connected wirelessly to the router..

This is the IEEE standard you cannot make any changes here..

Wireless N routers offers more speed(300).. Try going wireless N.. This should be a welcome change for you..

Answer 6

sometimes yes, it also depends on the distance from the router and the make-up of your house! too much stone and it will be like a cell phone, not a strong signal.

Answer 7

Yes, as most wireless are 11b/11g, it should cope with the 10Mbps.