Speed capping on USB1.1

dragon2309

dragon2309

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Hi, as some of you may know, i recently bought a USB 802.11g 54Mbps wireless adapter. I knwo it max Tx Speed is 54Mbps as stated on the box, but it will only connect at 11Mbps, i know this is the speed of the older 802.11 standard, have i been duped and actually bought a cheaper, lower end model or is it because im running it through USB 1.1. I believe it does have the capacity for a USB 2 interface but my PC doesnt (its my old one, only 1.1). Is it worth paying out £5 for a USB 2 controller card through PCI??

Any suggestions or alternatives would be good.

dragon2309
 
anyone, i need some advice. Is it worth upgrading to USB 2, will i see the speed increase on my USB adapter for wireless. Will it escalate to the full 802.11g 54Mbps speed???

ANYONE!!!!!
 
usb 1.1 is capped at 12Mbps so you are going to need to upgrade to get the full bandwidth.

The reason that is is displaying 11Mbps, is undoubtidly because you are connect using 802.11b to connect
a. Is the router set to emmited at g standard, and accept all types of card
b. If the wireless card you have g compliant.

Either way you will need to buy a usb 2 extension to take ful advantage. Or just buy a pci-e wireless card
 
Right, i have a 54Mbps USB adapter which states 802.11g on the driver details and on the driver CD. And all my proper computers with actual PCI cards are on 802.11g and running at 54Mbps, i sahll look into gettin a USB 2 expansion card.

Or just buy a pci-e wireless card
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PCI-e, did i say that?? Thisis on an old AMD K^ system, running at 500Mhz with 96Mb RAM, ya think its got PCI-e.
 
if you are going to be moving files back and forth across your network then you may see a difference in performance with a usb 2.0 port. however. . .

it will not help with internet speeds. most dsl and cable only goes to 3mbit down right now. that is nowhere close to the 11mbit limit of usb 1.1. even if were lucky enough to get the max 12mbit adsl you would see only a minimal increase in speed. now if you have adsl +2 then thats a diff story. . . ;)
 
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