Bohannon Tech» WLAN http://www.bohannontech.com/blog Tech Reviews & Commentary Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:56:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The experts help me figure out my WLAN problems http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2008/12/02/the-experts-help-me-figure-out-my-wlan-problems/ http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2008/12/02/the-experts-help-me-figure-out-my-wlan-problems/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:55:30 +0000 http://bohannontech.com/blog2/?p=282 Continue reading →]]> I asked my linkedin extended network to help me figure out why I was getting such lousy WLAN performance. This was my question:

Why is WLAN still so slow? How come wireless-N products don’t test significantly faster than plain old 802.11G?

I’ve been doing lots of performance testing of WLAN products and writing up the results on my blog (www.bohannontech.com). I was excited at first because I bought some nice new 802.11N 270Mbps products from all of the major brands, Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, and Trend. These products often show a connection speed of 270Mbps, but the actual speeds of file copies is terrible – some as slow as 6 Mbps, and this is with 2 computers in the same room. When I run the same tests with wired Ethernet, I will consistently get 80Mbps.

Has anyone been able to get a real performing wireless-N setup and if so, can you recommend any products?

 

These are the great responses I received, thanks again to everyone that helped out!

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/wireless/TCH_WIR/373905-19281169

 

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