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The AirStation turned in a very respectible performance.
Let's just cut to the chase and look at the numbers...
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Test
Description
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Transfer
Rate (Mbps)
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Ping
(msec)
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| File
Xfr |
Qcheck
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AP to Client - Condition 1
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3.2
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3.5
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< 10
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AP to Client - Condition 2
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3.0
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3.1
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< 10
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AP to Client - Condition 3
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2.9
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3.5
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< 10
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AP to Client - Condition 4
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2.9
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2.9
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< 10
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(Details of how we tested can be found here.)
The key difference between the AirStation and AirConnect performance
is on the longer range test (Condition 4). I suspect this
is due to the AirStation card staying locked on the 11Mbit rate,
while the AirConnect card dropped to a 2Mbit rate and appeared
to keep trying to change rates. Note that I did not force the
card or Access Point bit rates, but let them both auto-adjust
their rates.
The "Qcheck" column under "Transfer Rate"
uses netIQ's (formerly Ganymede) free
QCheck utility. The column lists the results of
a Qcheck TCP Throughput test, using a 1000kByte test data size.
I'm not sure why it tends to show higher throughput numbers than
my simple file transfer test does. Maybe it's due to the
smaller amount of data it uses in its test. At any rate,
I'll be adding the Qcheck results to future reviews because the
program is easily available and easy to use.
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