[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - router performance

[Bob Kline]

A friend read something in some Intel
literature which mentioned that router
performance could be improved by
selection just, say, G, rather than B/G.

I tried this on my Linksys wireless route,
selecting G only.

The results were astounding.  A 35%
increase in uploading speed, and a
25% increase in the download speed,
as measured by http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
late at night.  In fact, I get the faster
upload speed doing the test any time
of the day.

Why?  i.e., what might be behind this?
I have no wireless devices that use B
anyway, and no real reason to have
the B/G option, which is the default.

So the router spends that much effort
trying to decide whether to use B or G?

The bottom line is that I've apparently
lost a lot of performance for a long time......


   -- Bob

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