Q: Hello
I bought a Netgear wireless router and PC Card. The installation of the software for the PC card installed a Netgear software I can use to monitor the status of the wireless connection between the router and the PC monitor card.
I wondered if you could any other software I could use this connection speed between the councils check router and PC card.
Im interested in a software Windows.
Thank you
Regards
Vivek
Best Answer: Your computer does this automatically. There should be an icon on the start toolbar on the bottom right that shows a computer with wireless signals coming out of it. Double click it and the speed as well as other details will be displayed. If this icon is not on the toolbar:
Click start>>control panel>>network connections>>wireless network connection.
Re:Hello
Thanks for helping me out.
It took around 58 secs to transfer a 35MBytes file from the laptop to the desktop (copy initiated from the desktop). That is approximately 4.7Mbps !! Hmm..wonder what does NetGear software shows as 76 Mbps (or 96Mbps or 108Mbps).
Any idea ?
Thank you
Regards
Vivek
Re:NetIQ gives a Reading that is very close to Raw, windows has a lot of overhead.
BTW, very nice 72Mb/sec. is really impressive.
I do not know what the Netgear Utility measures (if it measures anything).
However in real life neither is so important.
Transfer a 10MB file, see how long it takes and compute the ?Speed?.
E.g. Using Windows Explorer with a good 100Mb/sec Wired Network10MB file should be transferred in about 1.2 sec.
Re:Hello
I tried the software at http://www.netiq.com/qcheck/default.asp.
I installed one instance on the laptop and the other on my desktop.
The NetGear software was showing the connection speed between the laptop's NetGear PC card and the NetGear wireless router to be around 72 Mbps (it can go upto 108 Mbps, 802.11g extended). But the NetIQ software showed the throughput to be around 30 Mbps for datapacket size of 1000 Kbytes.
How is there so much of difference ? (around 40-50Mbps)
The desktop is connected to the wireless router using a 100Mbps ethernet connection.
Did I test wrong ?
Thanks
Regards
Vivek
Re:Hello.
Thanks for the info. I will try out the softwares that you pointed.
Regards
Vivek
Re:Net Iq's Qcheck should do it for you if you can find it.
EDIT*** Jack beat me to it.
Re:The MHz value of communication that is provided by someWireless Card Utilities means very little. It is a very general representation (which includes the signal and accumulation of transmission noises) it is not capable to actually measure the signal. To measure the signal you need special standard Hardware.
Here you have choices of such devices: http://www.spybase.com/csurveillance.html
From Software point of view it does not matter what you use. Wireless is just an Air replacement to Cable. The Network ?Speed? of transferring is a result of what the hardware can do and depends on the OS and software that you are using. E.g. FTP usually would transfer faster than Win Explorer.
The following is considered as one of the standards:
A FREE Utility for Network Troubleshooting from NetIQ! (http://www.netiq.com/qcheck/default.asp)).
You install the master program on one computer, and End point Client on all other computers on the Network.
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