Confusion DSL Speed!

[noorerino]

Good evening,

My internet provider is Acanac and I have an 11Mbps DSL connection which means a peak download rate of 1.4MB/s if I'm correct.

Now, when I am connected to the internet over Wi-Fi with my laptop, the Intel ProSet Software utility indicates me a speed of 56 to 144Mbps (it variates time to time). How is that possible giving the fact that my provider is only offering me 11Mbps?

I have an Asus N900 RT-N66 router. BTW, if I had any N300 router, will I suffer speed decrease?
Do I need a router such as a N900? (I use the Dual Band technology)

Thank you !!! And Merry Christmas !!

 

[omnimodis78]

I am not familiar with Intel ProSet, but are you sure it's measuring your internet speed, not your wireless transfer rate (it's not the same thing)? Maybe you could try using something like the link below to measure your internet (DSL) speed. If you want to be clear on the speeds, you can go into options and change it to whatever speed standards your ISP uses, I guess in your case Mbps (megabit per second)

http://www.speedtest.net/

 

[k1114]

What you are seeing is the connection speed so essentially you can transfer at 56 or 144mbps to the router or anything else connected to the router. You should not see a speed decrease with a n300. If you need a n900 would dependent on if you need a stronger or farther signal.

 

[USAFRet]

The 56 to 144Mbps is your PC talking to the router, and potentially other devices on your internal LAN.

The 11Mbps DSL speed is talking to the outside world. No matter what router you get, with that service plan from the ISP, you will never get more than 11Mbps when talking to the outside world.

 

[noorerino]

I am not familiar with Intel ProSet, but are you sure it's measuring your internet speed, not your wireless transfer rate? Maybe you could try using something like the link below to measure your internet (DSL) speed. If you want to be clear on the speeds, you can go into options and change it to whatever speed standards your ISP uses, I guess in your case Mbps.

http://www.speedtest.net/

So the speed rate of 11Mbps that I get by my provider has nothing to do about the speed rate of my wireless connection? Wow I'm so confused. If I were to be limited by my provider's connection speed, why do people need a router that is 300Mbps or more ?

Speedtest gives me : 20ms Ping ; 11.61Mbps Download ; 0.61Mbps upload . (which informs that I have an ADSL connection)

I still don't get ISP speed connection VS. router's speed connection... Help me

 

[noorerino]

The 56 to 144Mbps is your PC talking to the router, and potentially other devices on your internal LAN.

The 11Mbps DSL speed is talking to the outside world. No matter what router you get, with that service plan from the ISP, you will never get more than 11Mbps when talking to the outside world.

So it's completely useless to go with a N900 router such as an Asus RT-N66?
If I could find a 11Mbps router, it wouldn't make a difference against a 300Mbps router?

 

[USAFRet]

The 56 to 144Mbps is your PC talking to the router, and potentially other devices on your internal LAN.

The 11Mbps DSL speed is talking to the outside world. No matter what router you get, with that service plan from the ISP, you will never get more than 11Mbps when talking to the outside world.

So it's completely useless to go with a N900 router such as an Asus RT-N66?
If I could find a 11Mbps router, it wouldn't make a difference against a 300Mbps router?

The speed between you and the router, whatever speed it may be, has nothing to do with the connection speed between your router and the outside world. That is controlled by the service plan you have with the ISP. In your case, and as evidenced by your results from Speedtest.net....that is 11Mbps.

Even if you had a Cat5e cable connection direct to the router at 1000Mbps....your connection to the outside world will never be more than ~11Mbps.
Unless you pay them more.

 

[DeauteratedDog]

Something worth mentioning: The advertised data rate is the raw over-the-air rate, and doesn't take into account overhead, which is substantial on wireless links. The real-world actual user payload rate is very roughly 1/2 the raw data rate. So, for example, a 54 Mbps 802.11a or 802.11g link can transfer up to about 20-something Mbps of user data.

If you want to know the actual bandwidth available between your laptop and your router, you need to measure it between your laptop and a wired device directly connected to the your router using a tool like iperf.

In any case, if ProSet is reporting 56+ Mbps, you have more than enough capacity to support an 11 Mbps internet connection, and any router supporting 802.11a or g or better will give you similar results (an 802.11b router (11 Mbps) will not).