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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Jusme on 04 March 2012, 13:57:17
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Having mastered how to switch my pc on, and having read much on here about them, all of which might as well be in 'double dutch'. Can I ask a very simple question to you who are 'in the know' ?
I am on a wireless connection, all stuff supplied by talktalk. If I hover my pointer over the router icon it almost always says, ' speed..54Mbps. signal strength..excellent. On trying out the talktalk speed test thingy this morning I get.. 4.56Mbps Down. 0.59Mbps Up. Can anyone tell me if this is good, bad, normal ? If possible in language that I will understand. :-[ :-[ Many thanks.. :y
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Thats normal :y
4.56Mbps Down. 0.59Mbps Up = Your internet connection speed
54Mbps. signal strength..excellent = Your internal network speed (over WiFi)
If you to transfer something from one computer to another internally, in your house, you would get 54Mbps....
Download it from stuff.com and you will get 4.56mbps.
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As tunnie explains, that icon shows the speed of the connection between your PC and the router - 54Mb
The speed between your PC and the test site is 4Mb, this is mostly likely due to the speed of your ADSL connection, coupled, maybe, with a bit of contention on the Carphone Whorehouse network.
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Thank you Tunnie & TB.. :y
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Also note that even though the link speed between your router and PC is 54Mbps, you won't actually get that throughput in real life.
For example, my wi-fi link speed between my access point and laptop is 150Mbps, but the most I have ever managed in a speed test is 62Mbps. If however I connect the lappy using ethernet, I then see the full 100Mbit my ISP provides.