I use wifi when im around the house. But I game on ethernet.
No shit. I know now, that stuff slows down other things that those things run on.
We really needed a 14,000 person test to realize Wifi is slower than Ethernet?
That money could've been used for a lot of things better than this
I thought this was generally accepted knowledge... There are also a lot of other factors in determining the speed of a wifi connection, mainly location of the router and distance between the laptop and the router. Yeah, they did mention it in the article, but it doesn't seem like they actually factored it into the speed, it looks like they just took the average of 14,000 different samples without factoring in anything else, unlike [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/how-we-test/access-points-and-wireless-routers/]more thorough and less costly tests[/url] do.
Quality of the router also plays a big role in this. A router from 10 years ago that could only connect via 802.11b is going to have a speed cap much lower than the newest, fanciest 802.11n routers that transmit on both the 2.4GHz range and the 5GHz range and have multiple antennas, etc.
This isn't even newsworthy, we all already knew,
My WiFi is not slower. I tested that. But I get 360 kb/s max. anyway.
95% of the time it has nothing to do with it being wifi but the horrible router that can't QoS properly, im guessing, 54 mb/s is plenty for 99% of home connections.
I always preferred ethernet, though
I'm pretty sure most people who have ever used wi-fi can say they noticed this...
How would it make sense that wireless would be faster / = to wired?
My connection is weird as I pretty much use wireless to the router, peak times I get 1.2mb a sec on downloads yet others I get 300kb a sec..
I get my full speed because BT gave us a HomeHub 2 which supports Wifi N and my Dongle is also Wifi N, thing I have to change it from the default channel or else it goes at around 1mb for some reason.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.