Uber noob question. Does wireless-N bottleneck standard ethernet?

[NeilF]

If you have a good wireless N network, can it mean that your standard (not gigabit) ethernet network can't cope?

 

[NeilF]

But standard eithernet is 100mbits? So surely there's the risk that you're bottlenecking your wireless network?

 

[NeilF]

So a noddy example at a network speed of 100mbits. Take a HD film, say 30GB which lasts for 2hrs...

30*1024*8=245760 mbits of information

How long would it take at 100mbits to transfer that file?
245760
/ 100
/ 60
= about 41mins?

So if the film was about 2hrs long in actual playtime you're transfering well within its required play speed?

 

[NeilF]

Umm?

^^ +1