NETGEAR WNR3500L-100NAS user manual Optimizing Your Network Bandwidth

RangeMax™ Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB WNR3500L User Manual

•Backing up computers over the network has become popular due to the availability of inexpensive mass storage. Table 6-1shows approximate, comparative times for transferring 1 gigabyte (1 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
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)

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

v1.0, November 2009