Overheads and MBps ?

stewart.r@ntlwo

stewart.r@ntlwo

stewart.r@ntlwo

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Hi i read about over heads on ADSL2. so if I'm on 8meg service and get 7.5MB this is just over heads kicking in and not the line maxing out. Just thinking as Be is so good its like having a new internet that I might go upto the 16MB service later in the year!.

Also the be box fires out at 54 MBps but the netgear at the pc end can take upto 300MBps. Is it worth shelling out another £50 for a new router with 270MBPS?

I know its all relative but playing games on it on the Be box looks fine with ping of 26ms, downloading looks quick enough and speed tests, this is the point I don’t get the speed test tells me I’m getting download at 7.5mb so how does the neatgear stuff improve on the high MBps?

Thanks
 
The overheads on ADSL2+ are not that significantly different from ADSL, cable, or any other connection - the lion's share of any overheads are from using TCP/IP.

Also the be box fires out at 54 MBps but the netgear at the pc end can take upto 300MBps. Is it worth shelling out another £50 for a new router with 270MBPS?
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Only if you're going to be transferring anything within the network - it isn't going to make any difference to your internet connection.

I know its all relative but playing games on it on the Be box looks fine with ping of 26ms, downloading looks quick enough and speed tests, this is the point I don’t get the speed test tells me I’m getting download at 7.5mb so how does the neatgear stuff improve on the high MBps?
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What?
It does 300Mbps between the machines and the router - if your internet connection's slower than that and you've only got one machine you won't see any difference, but if your connection's faster than the ~2MB/s that 802.11g will do or you want to transfer anything between machines connected to the router then it'll obviously make a difference.
 
Right now its one machine, Be Box downstairs at the phone and the pc upstairs with netgear WN121T.

Right so a faster router really is not going to improve anything for gaming etc on this setup and only come into its own if its on a network with more that one Pc?
 
No, you wouldn't see any difference with only one machine, unless your internet connection was faster than 802.11g could handle.
 
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