Local Area Connection shows 10.0 mbps

[textmum]

I have a Zoom 1011 adsl modem/router, I am using broadband currently at 2Mbs, soon to be upgraded to 8Mbs.

Can I get the Local connection(two computer screens shown on righthandside of task bar) to show a faster speed? My laptop shows 11.0mbps using wireless networking.

I am not ICT literate so simple explanations please.

Have been on Zoom site, but I cant find that modem on there anymore to get help.

Thanks

[OBonio]

11Mbps is the fastest theoretical speed for a wireless network using 802.11b. If you want it faster you will need to upgrade your wireless card and wireless access point to 802.11g which has a theoretical speed of 54Mbps.

802.11b should be fast enough to handle your 8Mbps broadband though as this is still the bottleneck (the slowest part of the network).

[textmum]

Not sure I understand this fully, I can get speed up to 8Mb coming through the broadband, it then goes via the modem and the modem to computer speed is only 10.0mps or are these different types of measurement?

[Kerplunk]

Basically you have internet coming in at 8mbps. Your wireless setup supports speeds upto 11mbps. Your network is only as quick as its slowest point, in your case the internet at 8mbps. You only need to upgrade your internal network speed if you intend sharing large files across your network.

[Gandy]

The confusion is arising from the fact that your internet speed is measured in mega BITS per second whilst your local network is measured in mega BYTES per second.

One megabit is equivalent to 0.125 megabytes.

As you can now see, your internet speed is considerably slower than your wireless network.

[rojash]

Both the Internet speed and the network speed are measured in Mega BITS per second. OBonio explained it correctly in his/her first answer, as did Kerplunk in the third answer. The confusion seems to be that textmum has difficulty understanding that 10 is bigger than 8!

[OBonio]

Just to back up rojash there, ALL bandwidth measurements (speed of the network/broadband etc) are in BITS per second whether it be kilobits or megabits per second.

Not sure what Gandy is talking about there....

The mention of 10Mbps makes me think your modem is wired into a computer via a normal network card which you are then sharing over a wireless network to your laptop (hence the 11Mbps).

Normal network cards are usually 10/100 which means they will run at 10 or 100Mbps. For some reason (maybe only a category 4 cable? Forced to run at 10Mbps in the driver settings? Running through a 10Mbps hub?) it is running at the slower rate. This is still fast enough to run your 8Mbps broadband though!

[textmum]

Thanks everyone, I think I did expect to see it change as the computer I use at work shows 1Mb, so I did think Mb was bigger than Mbps.

I thought maybe I needed to change the modem/router in some way, so it showed it in Mb.