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Subject: Re: Another Question about Internet Access Posted on: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:20:18 -0400

In article , Paul
wrote:

> In article ,
> Dillon Pyron wrote:
>
> > It's definitely not WiFi speeds. If you get 56K you're doing well for
> > dialup. The WiFi is more like 192-384K
>
> WiFi's 802.11b is 11 Mbit/sec, 802.11g is 54 Mbit/sec. Both are much,
> much faster than 192-384k/sec.

Those high speeds are what they are capable of but what you actually
get is slower. For example at home I have WiFi 802.11g. My cable
connection to the internet is 6 Mbit/sec. so no way I am going to get
54 Mbit/sec. And when I measure it I am not getting even that. I
measure it as actually at 3 Mbit/sec. On the ship it is a satellite
connection with a lot of latency. I don't know what their downlink
speed is from the satellite but I have measured the speeds on the ship
to be in the range that Dillon posted, between 200 and 400k/sec.

--
Charles