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General Maximus · 13-04-2012, 21:55

each device you use is rated at different speeds. The best way to think of it is that you are in a car which can do 130mph, you are driving on a motorway with a speed limit of 70mph and you are using space saver tyres with a max speed of 50mph. How fast are you going to go?

Most pcs these days will have onboard gigabit (1gbit) network controllers and that is the max speed it can connect to to another device. In this case the shub also has 1gbit ports so you can transmit data to and from the shub at gigabit speeds. If for example you was using an older router which only had 100mbit ports, windows would report that the connection is 100mbit when yo click on the globe on your taskbar and look at the connection properties.

Like Kymmy said, your connection is as fast as the weakest link. VM control your speed going off to the internet and even though your max speed in this case is 30mbit, the weakest link analogy works for the internet as well. You might get full speed right across the UK but if for example you are trying to get a file hosted on a home server from someboday on dialup then all you are going to get is 5k/sec. Think of it as your 50mph tyres having to drive round a multi storey car park at 5mph.

As far as the wireless goes, the shub is very dodgy for wireless but I won't get in to that. When you are looking at 802.11g (54mbits) the most you can expect is half speed which is 26mbits ish which equates to download speeds of around 3mb/sec.

3mb/sec is very fast for small downloads. If you were looking at larger files which are going to take some time then you really want to be looking at wired connections.

13-04-2012, 21:55	#4
General Maximus Ran Away Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Confusion over internet speeds,etc. each device you use is rated at different speeds. The best way to think of it is that you are in a car which can do 130mph, you are driving on a motorway with a speed limit of 70mph and you are using space saver tyres with a max speed of 50mph. How fast are you going to go? Most pcs these days will have onboard gigabit (1gbit) network controllers and that is the max speed it can connect to to another device. In this case the shub also has 1gbit ports so you can transmit data to and from the shub at gigabit speeds. If for example you was using an older router which only had 100mbit ports, windows would report that the connection is 100mbit when yo click on the globe on your taskbar and look at the connection properties. Like Kymmy said, your connection is as fast as the weakest link. VM control your speed going off to the internet and even though your max speed in this case is 30mbit, the weakest link analogy works for the internet as well. You might get full speed right across the UK but if for example you are trying to get a file hosted on a home server from someboday on dialup then all you are going to get is 5k/sec. Think of it as your 50mph tyres having to drive round a multi storey car park at 5mph. As far as the wireless goes, the shub is very dodgy for wireless but I won't get in to that. When you are looking at 802.11g (54mbits) the most you can expect is half speed which is 26mbits ish which equates to download speeds of around 3mb/sec. 3mb/sec is very fast for small downloads. If you were looking at larger files which are going to take some time then you really want to be looking at wired connections.