Latency?

Discussion in 'Internet, Connectivity and Communications' started by Boycie, Oct 14, 2006.

  1. Boycie
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    Boycie Senior Beer Tester

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    I was amazed to see the difference in an ADSL speed test result when using a wired vs wireless connection.

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  2. Baba O'Riley

    Baba O'Riley Gigabyte Poster

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    Um, thanks for that!

    If you fiddle around with different types of encryption, you find it improving. My wireless connection is quite a bit faster if I use AES rather than TKIP.
     
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  3. r.h.lee

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    Boyce,

    That's because Category 3 UTP cabling is rated to go 10 Mbps and Category 5 UTP cabling is rated to go 100 Mbps. Wireless 802.11g is rated to go 54 Mbps but that's shared among the wireless nodes, as if they were connecting to a "wireless hub." Then given ambient electromagnetic interference from devices in your own home, like the cordless phone working at the same frequency as the WAP/Wireless Router and electromagnetic interference from your neighbors will also have a direct impact on wireless latency.

    *waves his flag woven with UTP cabling* :)
     
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  4. Bluerinse
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    What did you observe Simon?
     
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  5. Boycie
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    Boycie Senior Beer Tester

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    Baba- Not a problem mate :biggrin
    I see what you mean about encryption :thumbleft

    Rhlee- Yes, but even the slowest link (54Mbps) is still far greater than the WAN speed.

    Pete- If testing wirelessly i have a download speed reported of 1.4mbps, compared to 5.7Mbps using a cat5 wire. There is also a WAN status page within my Zyxel gateway that shows a download speed of 5.7Mbps.
    I know that the <wired> report is correct, just nosing.....

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    In addition, don't forget that WiFi is half-duplex, whereas most decent Ethernet kit these days is full-duplex.

    Add in the fact that WiFi has a huge overhead on the packets, so that the best you can hope for in throughput is about half the stated rate.

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  7. Boycie
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    Harry,

    Thanks for the explanation.

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  8. Bluerinse
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    Wow that is quite a difference even when taking into account packet size, half duplex and encryption. Still either beats my 53KB/s into a cocked hat :oops:
     
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  9. Baba O'Riley

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    I would investigate this a bit further if I were you Boyce, on my Wi-Fi set up, downloading a file will get me about 1.5 mbps but I'm only on a 2mbs connection. Proportionately, thats way faster that yours. What wireless standard and encryption are you using?
     
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  10. Boycie
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    Boycie Senior Beer Tester

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    Baba,

    Centrino based laptop. Zyxel 660HW wireless router. WPA TKIP....

    I will <mess around> with encryption and report back.

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