ahh, marketing. Some people will believe anything!

Check the table at
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/08/08/wireless_throughput.html

or numerous other guides courtesy of google. This shows that maximum
throughput is roughly 27Mb/s for 54g, but in my experience its much less
in the real world.

Note that configuring a card for 54mb/s is the maximum - unless you are
quite close (distance wise), have little interference and dont have a
busy 802.11b on the same AP, you are not even going to see a 54, but a
fallback. And I think encryption will clip it even further if you are
using that (as you should be!)

BillK


On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 11:33 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> Can anyone tell me how I could find the bottleneck on my wireless
> network? According to iwconfig, both cards are cofigured for 54 MBit/s
> but I only get about 13 MBit/s, both on NFS and scp.
>
> Might it be the driver (iwl3945, rt61 from kernel 2.6.24)?
> Unfortunately, iwspy doesn't work on these cards.
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