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Hi all
I have a Netgear WG602 that I have been using for a while with my Mac
PowerBook. It's set to 54g only and I've never really had cause to
look to closely at speed, as it's mainly for web browsing.
I've now gone to add a second station, a Wintel box, using a Netgear
WG121 USB-54g adaptor. It seemed sluggish, so a few quick tests
revealed that it was doing about 6-7Mbps receiving and about 1Mbps
transmitting - disappointing to say the least!
I then went back and measured my PowerBook and it's better, with about
20Mbps receiving and about 8-10Mbps transmitting, but still not
brilliant.
I should mention that I have performed the same tests on both via the
wired NIC and they'll each do 70-80Mbps in both directions. I'd have
to conclude that there's nothing in the file transfer itself that's
causing slowness. Also I have tested the same USB 2.0 port with an
external hard drive and it's doing about 200Mbps so in the case of the
WG121 it's not a USB bottleneck.
I have tried all manner of changes, with and without WEP,
auto-selection versus 54g-only, swapping channels etc. While I've been
testing, the WG602, the PowerBook and the WG121 have all been within a
foot or two of each other, so you'd think it would not be an
interference problem. Certainly there's not huge error rates in either
direction. Frustratingly everything reports as full strength signal
and running at 54Mbps.
So now I'm left thinking that either I have a defective WG602, or this
as as good as it gets. I'm finding it hard to accept the latter, yet
it's equally hard to believe that the WG602 would sort of work, but
just go slowly for no obvious reason. I have upgraded the firmware to
1.7.15, which seems to be the latest.
Can anybody else comment on tested throughput for the WG602, please?
Thanks.
Phil
Hi all
I have a Netgear WG602 that I have been using for a while with my Mac
PowerBook. It's set to 54g only and I've never really had cause to
look to closely at speed, as it's mainly for web browsing.
I've now gone to add a second station, a Wintel box, using a Netgear
WG121 USB-54g adaptor. It seemed sluggish, so a few quick tests
revealed that it was doing about 6-7Mbps receiving and about 1Mbps
transmitting - disappointing to say the least!
I then went back and measured my PowerBook and it's better, with about
20Mbps receiving and about 8-10Mbps transmitting, but still not
brilliant.
I should mention that I have performed the same tests on both via the
wired NIC and they'll each do 70-80Mbps in both directions. I'd have
to conclude that there's nothing in the file transfer itself that's
causing slowness. Also I have tested the same USB 2.0 port with an
external hard drive and it's doing about 200Mbps so in the case of the
WG121 it's not a USB bottleneck.
I have tried all manner of changes, with and without WEP,
auto-selection versus 54g-only, swapping channels etc. While I've been
testing, the WG602, the PowerBook and the WG121 have all been within a
foot or two of each other, so you'd think it would not be an
interference problem. Certainly there's not huge error rates in either
direction. Frustratingly everything reports as full strength signal
and running at 54Mbps.
So now I'm left thinking that either I have a defective WG602, or this
as as good as it gets. I'm finding it hard to accept the latter, yet
it's equally hard to believe that the WG602 would sort of work, but
just go slowly for no obvious reason. I have upgraded the firmware to
1.7.15, which seems to be the latest.
Can anybody else comment on tested throughput for the WG602, please?
Thanks.
Phil