Rod Gayford wrote:
> Might seem like a silly question, however my broadband speed is being
> upgraded to 20,000 KPS and presently my computer is connected wirelessly to
> a broadband router using the 802.11g/2.4GHz protocol. I was just wondering
> whether that wireless protocol can handle the broadband speed of 20,000 KPS?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rod Gayford
>
>
Smallnetbuilder (a Tomshardware site), evaluates wireless performance.
The chart I selected here, shows a typical plain Wireless G device.
Notice that the tendency, is for them to operate at "one notch down"
from max. This chart would meet your requirements, but not at an
infinite distance. This chart also doesn't account for interference.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_wireless/Itemid,200/
The other issue, is getting 20 megabits per second from the server
side. Using a Torrent and opening many connections, is one way to
"fill the pipe". But for a lot of other networking activities, the
server won't come near to achieving 20Mbit/sec. Also note, that while
it is counter intuitive, some ISPs go out of their way to filter
user activities. Either they have a hard cap on megabytes per month,
or they filter certain kinds of traffic. For example, some US ISPs
filter unencrypted torrents, so that the user only gets 2KB/sec. (Switching
to an encrypted Torrent, will fix it, until the ISP figures out a
way to police those as well.)
Any ISP offering a 20 megabit/sec service, had better have a "mighty networking
machine", a router with fat pipes, to back it up, and offer that actual
service to users. On at least some ISPs, you might only see the 20Mb/sec
at 3 A.M. in the morning. During the day, the number achieved will make
you want your money back.
I guess you'll be able to give us a report, when the service is running
Some networking equipment, will have limits on how many live connections
it will support. I have no idea what that limit might be, but if the limit
was low enough, that might be another reason for not being able to fill
the pipe with a Torrent download.
http://utorrent.com/faq.php
"The following modems/routers have known problems with too many global
connections, limiting them to 200 or less should fix the problems:"
HTH,
Paul