Tom Horsley wrote:
Just for curiosity, does anyone actually know for sure
what units the programs involves are calling "mb/s".
Maybe one of them thinks it means megabytes and
another thinks it means megabits :-).
Generally people are starting follow the standards, although that's only generally:
mb or mbit bits
mB bytes x 1000000
miB bytes x 1024*1024
Since a common rate in the 802.11 standard if 54 mbit that's probably right.
My Intel 2200 wireless:
eth0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"TMR-2"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:02:6F:5D:79:48
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:RedacteD Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=93/100 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:5
And Ralink on USB with rt2800usb driver:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TMR-2"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:02:6F:5D:79:48
Bit Rate=81 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=56/70 Signal level=-54 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:15 Missed beacon:0
802.11n uses 2.462Mb band and/or 5.xxx Mb band, the high band being less noisy
in many cases and possibly giving a cleaner connection.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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