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Originally Posted by Marcellus
I always wonder about this sort of thing. What is the fastest wireless router speeds and wireless adapter speeds on laptops for example?
I have 6mps speed DSL but my wireless won't even keep up with that so why run faster?
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Yeah, that's definitely an issue. Assuming you have a perfect connection, throughput on a wifi connection is usually half of what it's capable of, so a 54mbps wifi connection would only be able to get around 27mbps. You can get an 108mbps router, but the technology isn't very common on devices.
So basically, most people wouldn't get much benefit from a wifi device above 27mbps at the absolute most. However, a desktop computer could be plugged in directly (or through a gigabit router). Even in that case, though, I'd bet that the computer itself would have trouble keeping up.