supersrsman
New Around Here
Before I begin, I'd like to say that I'm pretty much a complete noob when coming to the concepts behind networking.
I recently purchased a netgear n900 with a western digital mybook essential 1.5tb. The external hard drive is attached to the netgear n900 by way of usb.
I'm having some problems with some of the wireless users in the household.
I understand the netgear n900 is capable of outputting 450mbps speeds. Both laptops were only receiving 72mbps.
I thought it had something to do with the wireless network cards installed on the laptops.
Under the devices list, I saw:
- 11b/g/n Wireless Lan Mini for the first
- something like 1x1 b/g/n Wireless network card
I sort of understand that the 1x1 describes the send and receive antenna configurations. And 1x1 has a theoretical limit of 72mbps?
Also, with the external hard drive connected, I'm getting spotty transfer speeds.
Wired to the router, I can get around 6-8MBps read/write speeds.
On my laptops, I can get 5-7MBps read, but a only around 300KBps write.
Is the slow write speed a limitation due to the laptops? Why am I not getting 72mbps (9MBps)?
Also, shouldn't my desktop directly connected to the router have significantly higher read/write speeds? Does this have to do with a limitation of the format of the external hard drive?
Any help would be appreciated. I'm sorry if I missed something crucial.
Thanks!
I recently purchased a netgear n900 with a western digital mybook essential 1.5tb. The external hard drive is attached to the netgear n900 by way of usb.
I'm having some problems with some of the wireless users in the household.
I understand the netgear n900 is capable of outputting 450mbps speeds. Both laptops were only receiving 72mbps.
I thought it had something to do with the wireless network cards installed on the laptops.
Under the devices list, I saw:
- 11b/g/n Wireless Lan Mini for the first
- something like 1x1 b/g/n Wireless network card
I sort of understand that the 1x1 describes the send and receive antenna configurations. And 1x1 has a theoretical limit of 72mbps?
Also, with the external hard drive connected, I'm getting spotty transfer speeds.
Wired to the router, I can get around 6-8MBps read/write speeds.
On my laptops, I can get 5-7MBps read, but a only around 300KBps write.
Is the slow write speed a limitation due to the laptops? Why am I not getting 72mbps (9MBps)?
Also, shouldn't my desktop directly connected to the router have significantly higher read/write speeds? Does this have to do with a limitation of the format of the external hard drive?
Any help would be appreciated. I'm sorry if I missed something crucial.
Thanks!