NETGEAR WNDR3700-100NAS user manual Optimizing Your Network Bandwidth

RangeMax™ Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700 User Manual

•Backing up computers over the network has become popular due to the availability of inexpensive mass storage. Table 6-1shows the time to transfer 1 gigabyte (GB) of data using various networking technologies.

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)

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 6-3

v1.3, October 2009