wifi bit rate

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu May 24 17:41:44 UTC 2012


On 05/24/2012 06:59 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> It's a 2-wire brand router, rebranded as AT&T
>>>> And yes, it does have the status page to see
>>>> every connected client, it's IP address, ...etc
>>>> However, it has no info about each client's
>>>> bit rate.
>>> It sort of does on the System Summary page at 192.168.1.254. You can
>>> also ask for connection details.
>> Well, I click on a connected device's details and
>> I get info like:
>>
>> Device Details
>> Name              MacBookPro
>> Connection        Type  Wireless (802.11)
>> IP Address        192.168.1.201
>> IP Address        Allocation  DHCP
>> IP Address Type   Private (NAT)
>> Hardware Address  00:01:02:03:04:05
>> Status            On
>>
>> I see no info about bit rates at all.
>>
>> The system  Info page has no info about any wireless client.
>> The Home page lists all connected devices, and provides the
>> link "Device Details" which when clicked shows the info above.
>>
>>
> What I said was not completely correct. What the system summary does is
> gives you internet speeds (in, and out) capabilities of the connection.
> This is not a statement about the actual internet bit speeds of
> connections of each machine on the LAN.
I see. That speed is rather high, since it combines the
bandwidth used for incoming TV signal as well.
But nevertheless, incoming is 25mb/s and outgoing
is 5mb/s (m=10^6).



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