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Transfer Expectations (data and streaming)

jayjasu

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A couple of questions.

I have recently upgraded my home network with a Netgear N600 dual band router. I have a external hard drive connected to the router which I have movies, pictures and music stored on to keep it off my laptop. I have my laptop connected to the wireless network at 5 ghz so my question is what transfer rate should I be getting when I am transferring data off the external to my laptop? For test purposes I am sitting my laptop right beside the router for max signal and I am transferring at 4 MB/s. Good or bad?

Also the primary reason I upgraded is that I bought a media player and want to stream HD movies via the 5 ghz connections from my external drive connected to the router. The 5 ghz usb wireless adapter for the media player is on the way as my current adapter only connects at 2.4 ghz and stutters/lags. Once I get the adapter it will be the only device connecting at 5 ghz. I am hoping this fixes the problem, does anyone have experience with this? I have heard the file size matters as well when it comes to streaming HD movies.

Thanks for the help in advance.

JJ
 
see how fast the transfer is copying data from the external usb hard disk to the machine :D
you may find ya bottleneck is usb, on wireless N i get about 15 tops
 
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Don't mix up bits and bytes here! By convention: MBps is bytes/sec and Mbps is bits/sec. Not all devices display number by this convention.

A lousy laptop's disk and TCP/IP stack can limit the speed. But a decent laptop should sustain an average disk read speed of 20MB/s or more. That's more speed than 11g can do, and more than 20MHz channel 11n can do.

I found that with Windows' shares, it takes a very fast CPU and good disk speeds and large data blocks to fill the LAN or WiFi (W-LAN) capacity. It was hard from some of my older PCs to exceed 100Mbps on ethernet.
 

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