How much bandwidth on wifi?

You will only get 54Mbps under ideal conditions, like the two antennas are almost touching. Wireless is a shared half duplex media, so it will be divided among the active devices. If you had one access point for each device that would be better. You can roam seamlessly depending on your architecture and coverage, but it may not be a simple task to setup based on your network.

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if you want to transfer a lot of data use a cable

each port is set at that magic 54 mb/s

however overhead takes it down right away to 1/2 of that

the computer must be close - speed drops like a stone generally after 30 feet ( i have not worked with n so i do not know if this is the case)

If there are any older b cards on the network it will take it down to a lower standard and rates

The key things are a lot simpler

- interference from rogue signals, the computer networking will bounce around between the two.. Worst case ( which is frequent) you will have a great signal but no functioning internet

the answer is fairly simple to change the channel from the default channel 6 to anything else. Channels 1 and 11 are first picks as they are the other 2 non overlapping channels

- next change the ssid if set to default values

- you may want to add encryption if not on. Locks you in to the signal first , and also prevents rogue log ons which can be accidental

- make sure the router is high , clear and uncluttered. One idiot I knew kirk had the router on the floor , in the furnace room ( read metal furnace , washer , full metal filing cabinets etc etc). The wireless router was on the floor under a thick metal desk. So much for 54 mb/s

- lastly you may want to set the router wireless to g only

a very good utility is network magic

even the free version is most helpful

http://www.networkmagic.com/

for finding rogue signals netstumbler is good

http://www.netstumbler.com/

also a good site for info

http://portforward.com/

the summary is

if you want to transfer large amounts of data use a cable

or set up the router with channels 1 or 11

have the laptop close by

also you may want to have the WAPs on different channels

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How much bandwidth on wifi?

Here's the situation

I push a lot of data within my network and I need to know if I can do this on wireless so I am trying to calculate my bandwidth needs.

Assume each WAP can do 54Mps and is connected to a 10/100 Switch. Does each host that connects to that same WAP have a complete...

The local connected area, you use the bandwidth of the Wi-Fi you are connected to and are accessing the Internet through. Hope this helped.