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Netgear WNR834B Wireless-N Router Network Throughput

After a discussion with my buddies on network throughput and the Netgear WNR834B Wireless-N Router, we decided to perform a throughput test for all of its encryption modes.

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WAN Comparison

I used the Speakeasy Speed Test to benchmark the performance over my 25 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up Internet connection. The following are the results.

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Wired Comparison

For reference, the following results are from a desktop computer that is connected to the network via a 100 Mbps ethernet cable.

Download Speed: 19253 kbps (2406.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4585 kbps (573.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Download Speed: 19270 kbps (2408.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4524 kbps (565.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

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LAN Comparison

In this test, I transfered "Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry (0.86.3).iso" (603,136 KB) between the wired desktop computer and the wireless-N netbook. Desktop computer was running Windows Vista, while the netbook was running Windows 7. Netgear WNR834B was configured to 130 Mbps with no encryption.

Desktop initiate transfer to netbook: ~7.6 MB/s.
Desktop initiate transfer from netbook: ~5.5 MB/s.

Netbook initiate transfer to desktop: ~4.75 MB/s.
Netbook initiate transfer from desktop: ~6.75 MB/s.

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