What is the highest speed you can possibly transfer with 54Mbps wireless router?

Question

I know you can never get 54Mbps - but what can you really get as a maximum. Please think about what I am asking...NOT internet speeds - not your wireless speed is limited by your internet speed silly talk.

Say the router can share files and you want to download a file off the router itself, and If you are right next to the router (100% signal), there is no "interference" in your house, only 1 pc connecting to the router, the absolutely best possible conditions EVER - you would still not get 54Mbps - but what would you get? 40Mbps, 30, 20 even??

Thanks for reading :)

Answer 1

54mpbs is only the speed of your router that connects to your computer, range wise.

Answer 2

Its not about how fast the router is its about the internet connection itself and the Internet service provider.

Answer 3

You can get max 32mbps speed i.e. 4mega bytes per second as 1bit is 1/8th of 1byte.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The most important factor is that the speed doesn't tell you the amount of useful data you are receiving or sending, because a data packet has a lot of overhead which is not data (header etc).

This means that when you download a file, only something like 85% of the data received are actually the data from the file.

Answer 6

i get 47 mbps

Answer 7

well i have a router that came with my tiscali and its wireless thomson and i have downloaded something and stream 720p hd content at the same time,but sometime it did stutter. if you want to do streaming and downloading at the same time its best you buy a good router and ditch the one that you get from ur provider

Answer 8

Theoretically you should get 54mbs. But then again, the best conditions are almost impossible to obtain because of everything that can run on the same frequency as your wireless connection and how far away you are from the WAP and what the signal has to travel through.

In a closed test facility the connection the manufacturer got was 54 mbs and that is why they advertise and market it as a 54mbs router.

In a real world scenario that you describe, you would probably get very close to the max speed. It would be about 45-50mbs. That is just a guess though.