Home Wireless Network help please!!!!?

Hi guys, i have a home wireless network. My ISP is orange broadband. I have 2 computers, one laptop and also my printer connected to the network. I should be gettin 8MB speed but on my computers, i only get 2MB each. However orange say that i should get 8MB speed. Is this becasue i have 2 computers and a laptop connected to the network? Does a network share out the speed with everything connected to it? If yes, how do i stop this from happening, as i don't need a speed of 2MB on my laptop and i hardly use it. Also does the printer take a speed of 2MB aswell?





Any help will be appreciated.





Thanks

Home Wireless Network help please!!!!?
If more than 1 computer is active on the router it should share out the connection evenly, this is ONLY applicable when the computers are activly connected to the internet. If you only have 1 computer actively connected to the router you should be getting 8MB speed average, this also depends on your transmit power of your router and the speed of your line.








The printer should not be taking up any MB at all, UNLESS if its a totally wireless printer.
Reply:I'll take it that you are referring to 8MB/s and 2MB/s? This would be 64Mb/s and 16Mb/s respectively.


More info is needed.


What are you trying to do and how are you getting your speed measurements?


What is your advertised speed of your "orange broadband"?


What wireless network do you have setup? Router capabilites (b? g? n?)? Wireless adaptors capabilities? (b? g? n?)


Wireless 802.11b is only 11Mb/s.


Wireless 802.11g is only 54Mb/s.


Wireless 802.11n is supposed to be 111Mb/s.





Wired networks are 10Mb, 100Mb, and 1Gb (1000Mb).





So you understand the difference:





MB = MegaByte


Mb = Megabit





8 bits = 1 Byte





I don't know what you know or how much you know, I'm just trying to clearify things first.
Reply:No, the network only shares the speed dinamically, as it is required.





Probably the data from Windows refers to the LAN (local area network == home). The 8MB advertised by your ISP applies to WAN (wide area network == internet).





Check your actual speed with some internet benchmark.


I have used this several times. I found it very accurate.





http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flas...
Reply:theoretically the max ISP connection is 8MB.





you have a LAN which is a shared medium (if one computer transmits at the same time as another computer, these two signals run into each other causing a collision on the network)





to stop this a protocol is implemented for ethernet - CSMA/CD collision detection and due to this only one computer is able to transmit at any one time.





if 2 computers wish to access the internet PC1 will recieve data via the internet connection as will PC2 - however because of CSMA/CD only 1 computer is able to recieve data at any time, So PC1 will recieve some packets at a given time and PC2 will do the same.





In reality this is not simultaneous sharing of bandwidth, it just seems like it because it happens soo quickly.





so your laptop doesnt use any 2MB bandwidth over the internet unless you are accessing web pages etc.





in summary, your net connection is only used by computers accessing internet content such as web pages, chat programs, file sharing programs etc.





if the computers are not being used, the internet connection speed is not compromised in any way (not noticably anyway).
Reply:You have to improve your network range, speed and stability.


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