Optimizing Your Network Bandwidth - NETGEAR RANGEMAX WNR3500L User Manual

RangeMax™ Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB WNR3500L User Manual
• Backing up computers over the network has become popular due to the availability of
inexpensive mass storage.
gigabyte (1 GB) of data using various networking technologies.
Table 6-1. Theoretical Transfer Time for 1 Gigabyte
Network Connection
Gigabit wired Ethernet
802.11n (40MHz) wireless
Powerline HD
100 Mbps wired Ethernet
802.11n (20MHz) wireless
802.11g wireless
802.11b wireless
10 Mbps wired Ethernet
Cable modem (3 Mbps)
Analog modem (56 kbps)

Optimizing Your Network Bandwidth

As your network grows, it might consist of several segments of different networking technologies,
each providing different throughput. In planning your network, you should first consider which
devices will have the heaviest traffic flow between them. Examples are:
• A media center in one room streaming high-definition video from a server in another room
• A storage device that is used for backing up your computers
Fine-Tuning Your Network
Table 6-1 shows approximate, comparative times for transferring 1
Theoretical Raw Transfer Time
8 seconds
26 seconds
40 seconds
80 seconds
55 seconds
150 seconds
700 seconds
800 seconds
2700 seconds
144,000 seconds (40 hours)
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