RangeMax™ Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB WNR3500L UserManual
Fine-Tuning Your Network 6-3
v1.0, November 2009
• Backing up computers over the network has become popular due to the availability of
inexpensive mass storage. Tabl e 6-1 shows approximate, comparative times for transferring 1
gigabyte (1 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
Table6-1. Theoretical Transfer Time for 1 Gigabyte
Network Connection Theoretical Raw Transfer Time
Gigabit wired Ethernet 8 seconds
802.11n (40MHz) wireless 26 seconds
Powerline HD 40 seconds
100 Mbps wired Ethernet 80 seconds
802.11n (20MHz) wireless 55 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)