gingerprince

Hi, I have an X3i but cannot get anything faster than 2Mbps connectivity. Have tried both on my home access point (802.11g, enabled for 11b support) and ad-hoc with a D-Link unit.

Anyone else have this? How do you get 11Mbps?

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Grentz

Try being closer to the ap, when the range is farther all wifi switchs to 2 mbps

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Howard2k

Are you talking about bandwidth (connection speed) or throughput?

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gingerprince

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Originally posted by Howard2k Are you talking about bandwidth (connection speed) or throughput?

ah it's point-in-time throughput, not connection speed

seems odd that if it's a throughput display, why it's always transferring 2mbps. what's it talking to??

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Grentz

the ax cant handle too much throughput. just an FYI

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Howard2k

Just to clarify, the connection speed is the speed at which the wireless devices have agreed to exchange individual frames. So 2Mb/s means that the frames are sent at a rate that will allow 2Mb/s of data. The throughput is how much actual data gets sent (+/- overhead, depends how you measure it).

So my PPC wifi driver reports the connection speed (11Mb/s typically) although my throughput is nowhere near that.

You should be able to connect at 11Mb/s but you won't be able to sustain much more than 2Mb/s of throughput.

If you can only connect at 2Mb/s then it's possibly a range/interference issue or maybe there is some sort of clocking issue between the devices? Preamble or speed set incorrectly?

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