[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - router performance

[Adam Erickson]

Has anyone tested this on home modems for verizon/comcast/at&t?

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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