Wired v Wireless - confused

avrc · 3 Apr 2010 at 12:32

I've just installed a Wireless card into my pc as I'm moving away from ethernet.

Now what confuses me is that web pages are loading noticeably quicker. How is this possible?

With ethernet there would be a second or 2 delay whilst the page loaded. With wireless as soon as I've finished clicking on the bookmark the page is open instantly.

BigRazer93 · 3 Apr 2010 at 12:42

is it wireless n by anychance?

If its wireless n, you will see the speed is connected at 150mbps or 300mbps, depending on how close you are to the router where as wired is connected at 100mbps.

avrc · 3 Apr 2010 at 13:37

The card does support n but the router doesn't so it's connected at 54 Mb/s

BigRazer93 · 3 Apr 2010 at 15:40

Hmmm :/ Maybe your ethernet drivers need to be updated on your computer?

ncjok · 3 Apr 2010 at 18:50

The wireless interface is using different DNS servers?

DJDaz · 3 Apr 2010 at 18:55

Ben-Irvine93 said:
is it wireless n by anychance?

If its wireless n, you will see the speed is connected at 150mbps or 300mbps, depending on how close you are to the router where as wired is connected at 100mbps.

surely that wouldn't make a blind bit of difference as it would still be limited by the internet connection :confused:

Duke · 3 Apr 2010 at 19:01

Very odd. Wireless will add latency (although not really noticeable) rather than take it away

Dodgy cable or old network drivers or some odd setting in the network card maybe?

FoxEye · 3 Apr 2010 at 19:19

54mb/s and 150/300 mb/s are theoretical maximums that you won't actually achieve

The typical throughput of a 54mb/s G wireless connection is something like 16mb/s. And it's less than 100 for N, too.

BigRazer93 · 3 Apr 2010 at 19:30

FoxEye said:
54mb/s and 150/300 mb/s are theoretical maximums that you won't actually achieve

The typical throughput of a 54mb/s G wireless connection is something like 16mb/s. And it's less than 100 for N, too.

Oh, haha

I ain't into the internet side of things, i'm more builder, ocer etc

Just a thought tho

MarkW7 · 4 Apr 2010 at 00:06

That is strange, wired usually puts wireless under the table.

DJMK4 · 4 Apr 2010 at 00:10

You wouldnt notice any difference at all with this test in real life in terms of speed when loading pages just by switching from Wired to Wireless, there must be another factor causing it, not unless your wired link was running at 10mbps with a damaged cable possibly. Sounds more like flakey DNS