Hi RB, thanks for chiming in.
My point is that speed decreases as you move away from the wifi router. Petes point is that it doesn't.
My real world case is as follows. My ADSL2+ connects to my modem at 14mbit. My rMBP where I am on now has a speediest of 12mbit.
I can download at 12 mbit file transfer speed if the file I am downloading supports that throughput. If I miss F1 or MotoGP I download them at this speed, circa 1.2 megabytes per second.
Now, if I move to the other end of my property, my speedtest is 3 mbit. So I cannot download faster than 3 mbit, my connect rate and thus my speed, or wifi transfer rate has dropped significantly. Pete is of the view that I should be able to download at the same rate as if I was closer, as while the signal is lower, the speed is the same. But it isn't. Distance and interference has decreased my connect rate on wifi, so my file transfer rate is lower, even though the radio wave speed is unchanged.
Maybe our discussion is about radio wave speed for Pete and wifi speed, or internet speed for me? Connect rate to be more precise. Although the internet is 100% irrelevant, as its unchanged at the source which is the wifi modem.
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Pete petefromflorida@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Thanks! Very informative. My average connection speed from my ISP is about 600 Kbps. Would this explain why I have no loss of speed as I get further away from my router. Notice my ISP speed is already slower than the throttling provided by dynamic rate scaling.
If you are running speed tests against the Internet, then yes, absolutely, since most WiFi devices will scale down from their rated max to (usually a minimum of) 1Mbps. Since that is faster than your Internet connection you would likely see no decrease in bandwidth as reported from speedtest.net and the like.
RB
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