16GB pendrives

Buchanan0204 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:38

Phil2008 said:
That kind of makes sense as a wired normal netwok connection is 100mbps and that maxes out at about 10mb/s. But if this is so, why are ppl always banging on about that wireless is much slower then hardwired?

100Mb is 12.5MB... so it's nearly 10.

However the larger the numbers, the more margin.

I think you are making the mistake of wanting to divide by 10 to get the number... hence you thought it was 1.5.

There is 8 bits in a byte. Hope that explains it better.

I don't understand how you think wireless isn't slower than hardwired. You can currently get upto 1GB LAN connections. Which is ten times the speed of your standard 100Mb LAN. Wireless at the moment can only go upto 300Mbps.

Phil2008 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:40

So a 150mbps wireless wont match or beat a 100mbps hardwired connection?

Buchanan0204 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:41

Phil2008 said:
So a 150mbps wireless wont match or beat a 100mbps hardwired connection?

Of course it will. It's faster...

However, it wont match a 1000Mbps cable.

Remember this is just purely speaking of transfer speeds... wireless has other drawbacks for gamers etc.

Sin_Chase · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:44

Buchanan0204 said:
Of course it will. It's faster...

However, it wont match a 1000Mbps cable.

Remember this is just purely speaking of transfer speeds... wireless has other drawbacks for gamers etc.

I would take 100Mbps ethernet over 150Mbs wireless any day of the week, for all out throughput also.

Buchanan0204 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:46

Sin_Chase said:
I would take 100Mbps ethernet over 150Mbs wireless any day of the week, for all out throughput also.

So would I. However, the wireless connection would still be able to transfer a file to another 150Mbps device quicker than the 100Mbps LAN could.

Sin_Chase · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:51

Buchanan0204 said:
So would I. However, the wireless connection would still be able to transfer a file to another 150Mbps device quicker than the 100Mbps LAN could.

Would not be so sure about that!

Buchanan0204 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:53

Sin_Chase said:
Would not be so sure about that!

I'm not guessing. I work with networking kit on a daily basis (unfortunately) It is indeed the case. Unless you have some magic kit that I've not seen or heard of? Otherwise your wireless kit is absolute junk.

Phil2008 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:55

Buchanan0204 said:
Of course it will. It's faster...

However, it wont match a 1000Mbps cable.

Remember this is just purely speaking of transfer speeds... wireless has other drawbacks for gamers etc.

Thanks for putting me straight on that, as I always thought a 150mbps couldn't match a 100mbps hardwired connection. So If your next to a wireless router, hardwared and wireless are as good as each others, accept wireless cant do the full duplex thing? Thats going from a 100mbps connection as most motherboards ethernets are still only 100mbps

Merlin5 · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:55

Buchanan0204 said:
Mb = MegaBit
MB = Megabyte
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As mentioned. Your internet connection speed has no bearing what so ever on your home network transfer speeds.
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OK... I'll try and help make it super simple for you... It really is simples.

As mentioned. It depends on the pendrive how fast it will read and write data to it. I have a Corsair Voyager GT and it's pretty quick compared to most pen drives... it's designed for speed.

I also have a Gigabit lan in my house, which I always use to transfer files between computers. a 1GB file can be transferred in around 30 seconds or less... which is significantly faster than it would take to copy it onto a pen drive, then walk to the other PC, plug it in and start the copy procedure.

As you don't have Gb LAN. You will be bottlenecked at the slowest part of your network... Depending on what that is... that will be your transfer rate. If your laptop is wireless "G" then it will connect at 54Mbps... which equates to 6.75MBps... that's how much data you will be able to transfer over the network per second. You know the file sizes of the files you want to send over. You can do the maths.

If you take into consideration the time it takes to find the pen drive, plug it in... copy the files, safely remove hardware... walk to next PC... plug it in... find files, copy over... it's all a bit of a hassle. I'd bet that even with the slowest possible wireless connection (54Mbps) that it's definitely more convenient and probably quicker than using a pen drive.

If you were transferring 5GB plus of data at a time. I would recommend a small external HDD. These have much quicker read and write speeds than pendrives and don't cost all that much more than a 16GB quick pen drive.

300Mbps = 37.5MB worth of data per second. If your laptop or whatever the other device is can do that... then it's definitely going to be faster than any pen drive.

Just because the router is 300Mbps capable, doesn't mean the other device is. What is the other device? Laptop, PC? What network card does it use?

Hope this helps. If you let me know the answer to the last question I will be able to give you exact times on file transfers and compare them to a pen drive, HDD and network transfer for you.

Thanks a lot Buchanan for the info.Yeah, the other device will be a laptop (as of tomorrow when it arrives). It's this one ,http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Vostro-3550-Notebook.53227.0.html and it says "Wireless communication is taken care of. The manufacturer's current favorite, Centrino Wireless N 1030 module from Intel, supports WLAN b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0." And on the listings page where I bought it, it also says 10/100 LAN Card.

Sin_Chase · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:56

Buchanan0204 said:
I'm not guessing. I work with networking kit on a daily basis (unfortunately) It is indeed the case. Unless you have some magic kit that I've not seen or heard of? Otherwise your wireless kit is absolute junk.

Most consumer wireless kit IS junk though

Buchanan0204 · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:01

Sin_Chase said:
Most consumer wireless kit IS junk though

Well... I can't argue with that lol!