Only 130mbps on wireless N Want 300mbps

I am using a dell xps m1330 with an intel wireless card with wireless n. I am using a dlink dir-655 wireless router and only am achieving 130mbs and so is my girlfriends sony laptop with wireless n. What do i need to do to increase the speed to 300 mbps. Thanks

 

I may be wrong, but I don't think the Intel 4965 card can connect to the 655 at 300 mbps. I think it's limited to 130, or at least that's all I ever got from the exact same combo. T get 300 mbps I think you'd need a 3rd internal antenna (the 4965 has only 2) or maybe a 5 ghz access point.

I willing to admit I'm wrong on this (because I might be) but I'm really thinking that combo is capped at 130.

 

i think your right. Does the dell wireless card allow it?

 

If you go to the D-Link forum for the DIR-655, you should find some information on what chipsets will get 300Mbps with the DIR-655.

 

the greater quesion is why 300mpbs? Even if you have fios at home there isn't much that requires or that can deliver that kind of throughput.

Or do you really want/need low-latency?

 

Actually... WiFi Link 4965AGN uses 3 antennas. You can refer to this link.

To get 270-300Mbps, it requires wide 40MHz channel or channel bonding, which has to be enabled in both wireless card and wireless router. The problem is 4965 can only do wide 40MHz channel in 5GHz band, while DIR-655 can only work in 2.4GHz band. That's why you end up with only 130Mbps.

 

Yeah, you're right about the three antennas. I was thinking about the card that shipped in my netbook that had only two. It's the 5 ghz requirement (not the antennas) that keeps the 4965 from getting 300 mbps on the 655. Good catch.

 

I doubt your internet conection even reaches 130 mbps. I could be wrong. But most likely it is wayyy lower than that.
So 300 mbps it is not going to do much.

 

Many people moving to N are not so much interested in their Internet connection as they are the speed between internal devices. For instance I have a media server that I use stream movies and videos to media extenders and/or PC's in other parts of the house. Trust me, you want the fastest N you can get for this type of thing, especially if you're trying to stream HD content.

 

Wireless N is very useful for transferring files between devices or for multimedia streaming just as Fountainhead has mentioned.

But in some part of this world Wireless N can also unleash the full potential of internet connection, such as in Japan a 100Mbps internet subscription is common to household, whereas wireless G of 54Mbps would limit it.

 

low-latency is more important for streaming than is raw bandwidth.

 

If I had very low latency but very little bandwidth I doubt I would be able to stream media.

On the other hand if I had high bandwidth but poor latency I could. It would be a matter of how much the player has to cache.

 

:yawn:

If you're going to put up strawmen for argument, try not to pick silly extreme examples.

 

wrong. you need the bandwidth to handle the video in the first.

 

same here.. i remember my m1330's 4965AGN only having 2 wires that connect to it... strange

 

another strawman.

You can have and pay for huge pipes for bandwidth, but if your latency is for crap the usable bandwidth is far less.

If you have low to very-low latency, as long as your bandwidth is a meg a sec or so you can download and stream all day long.

Which is why I laugh at a lot of folks who brag about DSL this and DOCSIS 3.0 that when we all know that the carriers are managing bandwidth by screwing with latency and the ack/nack sequence.