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will there by change in speed in wifi connected to the pc, and in the pc
jraju:
hi, i noticed a strange thing. when connected with router thro lan, the pc is having great speed, that my ISP provide, but if i just use the modem wifi to the laptop thro wifi the speed suddenly decreases . Is it a fact that when you connect to modem with pc, your normal speed prevails and when you access the same with another device, say , a laptop, the speed differs. pl your view
Boggin:
You would normally get a better sync speed when wired to wireless, depending upon how far the machine using wireless is from the router - otherwise there would be very little difference when different machines are the same distance from the router.
jraju:
hi, boggins, i want a little more information. I wired with pc, and in the adjacent room have the laptop. the router distance is only a room distance. at maximum the router is about fifteen to twenty feet, whereas the distance from router to comp, wired is three to four feet. but i do not know, how if is connected to wired the speed is somewhat greater than the speed , thro wireless.
Samson:
Chances are your ethernet NIC adapter is rated faster than your wireless adapter and also, wireless has the overheads for things like WPA2 security.
My set up is ancient but my ethernet NIC is 100Mbps and my wireless G adapter is 54Mbps YMMV :wink:
Boggin:
There's less latency/time lag with wired and the further away from the router, the weaker the wireless signal will be.
When you are in another room to the router though, it isn't so much the distance although a factor, but what sort of material the signal has to travel through.
Sometimes changing channels in the router can help and using a program like inSSIDer3 can assist in finding the best channel to use.
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5936-inssider.html
@ Samson - the speeds you are referring to are for data transfer to other machines and has nothing to do with broadband speeds.
http://www.howtogeek.com/217463/wi-fi-vs.-ethernet-how-much-better-is-a-wired-connection/
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