Re: WiFi download of songs reliably?

wifi or not should not be a problem downloading songs.



On 10/16/05, Devin McBride <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> After you factor in all the overhead from the wireless stuff...even if
> it gets throttled by 90% and he only gets a little over 1 mbit/s...this
> is still far above his internet speed. I am having a hard time
> understand why he is assuming it is his wireless.
>
> I have seen wireless setups where clients randomly disconnect every few
> minutes (and then proceed to reconnect) and it totally trashes any
> downloads they had running.
>
> DM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralph Sims
> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:17 AM
> To: 'SeattleWireless Talk List'
> Subject: RE: WiFi download of songs reliably?
>
> So if we take a 256K DSL line, factor in 20% overhead for ATM and/or
> other
> network stuff, whack off 20% for WEP, we've reduced our throughput to
> about
> 150KBps. 802.11b is half-duplex as well, if I recall.
>
> Check, what type of 'raw' download speeds are you seeing
> (http://test.lvcm.com or http://sea.speakeasy.net)?
>
> > Need to consider a good amount of variables, but I've heard
> > it adds up to 30% on some of the consumer devices.
>
> >> How much overhead does 128-bit WEP add?
>
>
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