This is from a iMAc, sitting here on the desk, 5 foot away from router
It is connected both wired and wireless
it is a 2010 iMac 21.5" OS X Mavericks 10.9.4
Look at the transmit speed on the wi-fi
it's just 300 Mbps, at 5 foot.
If it wasn't wired thru a 1Gb switch then router it would be slow (wife is graphic designer so need to move large files to/from email/dropbox/etc)
I could not rely on the wireless @ 5Ghz
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