NETGEAR wndr3700 - Manual (Page 101)

RangeMax™ Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700 User Manual
Fine-Tuning Your Network 6-3
v1.3, October 2009
• Backing up computers over the network has become popular due to the availability of
inexpensive mass storage.
Table 6-1 shows the time to transfer 1 gigabyte (GB) of data using
various networking technologies.
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
Table 6-1. Theoretical Transfer Time for 1 Gigabyte
Network Connection Theoretical Raw Transfer Time
Gigabit wired Ethernet 8 seconds
RangeMax NEXT Wireless-N 26 seconds
Powerline HD 40 seconds
100 Mbps wired Ethernet 80 seconds
802.11n wireless 45 seconds
802.11g wireless 150 seconds
802.11b wireless 700 seconds
10 Mbps wired Ethernet 800 seconds
Cable modem (3 Mbps) 2700 seconds
Analog modem (56 kbps) 144,000 seconds (40 hours)