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I read a review saying the download speed was lower than their desktop speed. Is this a wireless limitation? Have you noticed any difference in speed from your other laptops/desktops and the NC10? I have a 20mb/s line and wouldn’t want browsing to be slow on the NC10, and I consider anything less than 15mb/s slow because I’m so used to it.
Yes it’s a wireless limitation. Overall, if you run a speedtest you should speeds close to what you’d see on a desktop for your internet connection, but depending on what you are d/l and from where, you may see a drop in speed. Wireless G, which the NC10 has, technically has a speed of 54Mbps whereas a lan connection has 100Mbps (or gigabit, but we’ll stick with the former now 😉
However – the lan will be able to get a sustained throughput of about 70-80Mpbs for large quantities, whereas wireless G really will only get about 15-20 max, and that’s sitting on top of the access point. It has to do with the way it handles data transfer. The newer n standard is capable of multiple input/output data streams and can provide a higher sustained rate for a large number of files.Bottom line, you’re generally going to be limited more by the other end of the connection than yours, but it is not the same, just something to keep in mind. It has nothing to do with the NC10, it’s the wifi…
And just to point out, if your only browsing the web, you probably wont notice any difference.. only when downloading large files.
Even on a poor wireless connection and getting throughput of less than 10mbps, you’re still going to max out most broadband connections which barely get beyond 2mbps, maybe 10 at the most (not counting those connected to corporate and educational LANs or live in Japan and have 100mbps fibre connections).
As for whether Wifi on this is slower than desktop Wifi, I doubt it, and I’ve not experienced any evidence of slowness by comparison to my other PCs via Wifi.
More than that I’d say the Wifi on this has better handling of poor signals.
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Even on a poor wireless connection and getting throughput of less than 10mbps, you’re still going to max out most broadband connections which barely get beyond 2mbps, maybe 10 at the most (not counting those connected to corporate and educational LANs or live in Japan and have 100mbps fibre connections).As for whether Wifi on this is slower than desktop Wifi, I doubt it, and I’ve not experienced any evidence of slowness by comparison to my other PCs via Wifi.
More than that I’d say the Wifi on this has better handling of poor signals.
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But yeah, I knew about browsing speed, I was talking mainly downloading files. I have grown very impatient with my speed luxury, but I guess it wouldn’t be THAT bad.
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I just downloaded some torrents with an average speed of 400kb/s so it is not THAT bad. I get about 400/700 kb/s on my desktop depending on the seeds.
I’ve got 20MB Virgin Media broadband at home and the download speed testers report 15MB+ wirelessly on the NC10 around the house.
As others have said, the limitation is Wi-Fi, not the NC10, if you want consistently high download speed (say, down the bottom of your garden) you’ll need a wired connection, but unless your house is particularly resistant to Wi-Fi signals I don’t suppose you’ll see much of a difference between a wired desktop and the NC10 on wifi.
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Just thought I’d bump this up to say I get my full 20mb/s on my NC10. My guess if is if you don’t see full speed you may not have tweaked the NC10s receive window. By default in XP, it’s only something like 17520 which isn’t enough for a fast connection.
Try the optimiser or one of the registry patches (simpler) on http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php (e.g. sguide_tweak_2k.zip). I get great wifi throughput (downloads not noticeably different to my wired pc – although I’m only a few meters away from the router and no interference etc.)
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