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What's the maximum actual bit rate of an 802.11g connection?

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Mar 15, 202622094 views
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Using a wired connection, I get a 38 Mbit/s download speed. When I switch to wireless one (Linksys WRT54GL router with Tomato firmware), the speed drops to 23 Mbit/s even if the distance between the router and the computer is 2 or 3 meters. Is that a maximum effective bit rate I can expect from an …

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With strong signal, no noise, a client and AP that both do frame bursting, and a well-optimized app (actually a throughput test tool called IPerf) I've seen 802.11g TCP throughput of barely 30 megabits/sec. In real world conditions I'm happy as long…

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