MacBook Air 2010 AirPort 802.11n speed

[animeking]

mmm....DOCSIS 3.0, crazy canadians are getting 120 mbps soon in Quebec City.

Anyway, my question is, for both the 11" and the 13", how many antennas do the wireless cards? I mean, if it's single antenna, then the max speed you can ever see on wifi is 150 mbps, no? If it's dual antenna, then you could possibly see 300 mbps. I doubt it's 3x3 or 4x4 since those came out too recently.

Btw, I hate ISP that give you wireless n access points which only have a 10/100 mbps ethernet port on them.

 

[DudeMartin]

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Would this be an issue if I wanted to watch HD YouTube or play some shooters?

 

[gdeputy]

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Would this be an issue if I wanted to watch HD YouTube or play some shooters?

lol, no. My MBA downloads files on torrents at 1.2-1.8Mbps. That's VERY fast. Takes me 2 seconds to download an MP3, maybe 1 minute to download a 256kbps+ Album.

The percentage of MBA owners that will be affected by the wireless capability of the MBA is probably .01%.

 

[jfulcher]

mmm....DOCSIS 3.0, crazy canadians are getting 120 mbps soon in Quebec City.

Anyway, my question is, for both the 11" and the 13", how many antennas do the wireless cards? I mean, if it's single antenna, then the max speed you can ever see on wifi is 150 mbps, no? If it's dual antenna, then you could possibly see 300 mbps. I doubt it's 3x3 or 4x4 since those came out too recently.

Btw, I hate ISP that give you wireless n access points which only have a 10/100 mbps ethernet port on them.

You aren't going to sustain close to 150 or 300 Mbps at least not in my experiences. So don't get mad that they only have 10/100 ports - that 100Mbit port would be faster than a 300Mbit 802.11n AP.

 

[DarwinOSX]

You don't say anything about Sony vs MBA configurations on either laptop or router end or how you are measuring this. I seriously doubt your Vaio is doing 150MB anyway.

I just don't understand why Apple have crippled the wireless on the MBA. As I say I have this and the vaio in front of me, the Sony is showing as connected at 150 Mbps and the MacBook at 65 Mbps, seems totally stupid. I'd expect better from a machine costing so much, they shouldn't advertise it as 802.11n if it's incapable of even connecting at 802.11n speeds!

 

[J400uk]

You don't say anything about Sony vs MBA configurations on either laptop or router end or how you are measuring this. I seriously doubt your Vaio is doing 150MB anyway.

Irrelevant. Both are running Windows 7 and connected to the same router. The VAIO reports 150, MBA reports 65. VAIO is quicker pulling files of the NAS, so its clearly going at a higher speed. Sony = Win, Apple = Fail.

 

[TheRealDamager]

Could at least some of the issue here being how the Vaio and the Apple report their speed?

 

[J400uk]

Could at least some of the issue here being how the Vaio and the Apple report their speed?

Wouldn't have thought so, as I said this occurs both in OS X and in Windows 7 on the MBA.

 

[fyrefly]

The Pic from the iFixit teardown reveals only two antenna ports (that I can see).

This means the 2010 MBA only has two antennas - so no 3 antennas like the other macs that push higher Mbps via their 802.11n connections.

Other (MBP) 802.11n Cards look like this - with Three Antenna ports:

 

[Prettyboyian]

i get on my 13inch air 52mbps thru my wireless n connection. I have time warner wideband with docsis 3 modem. i get the same exact speed plugged in and wireless.

 

[size100]

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Would this be an issue if I wanted to watch HD YouTube or play some shooters?

HD youtube uses a fraction(1/10 or 1/20 or more, <4mbit/s for 1080p around 2 for 720p) of the max bandwidth, shooters use almost no bandwidth. Its a non-issue for most people cause they are using their wifi for internet.

 

[foiden]

Actually, the number of uses for that bandwidth just went up. Mainly if they have Air streaming used. Since you can now redirect your movies and such to the Apple TV, that's a good way to test throughput, especially if you run other net activities on top. However, I think I'm still bumping into the limitations of my router, which isn't a fast N. I think I'm maxing that before I'm maxing my Airport, so I can't test at home, right now.

 

[O.Soderberg]

When I transfer files to my hardrive connected to my Airport Extreme i reach about 11 MB/s according to activity control. When i surf the web i reach 90-95 Mbit/s.

This is if I'm in the same room as the extreme

 

[c0052350]

my 13 2010 reports 300mbs

my air reports a connection speed of 300mbit/s connected to a netgear dual band router dgnd3000

 

[Kachadurian]

Where are you guys getting these connection speeds.

my air reports a connection speed of 300mbit/s connected to a netgear dual band router dgnd3000

Where are these numbers and connections coming from? With speed test, directly wired through gigabyte internet I get 5.46Mb/s on my MacPro. It's damn fast.

Is this a theoretical speed or are you reading something that's data trasnsfer within the computer.

go to speedtest.net and do a test.

 

[J400uk]

I'm having more issues, wireless has got very sluggish and the speed just seems to keep dropping. Any ideas? All my other devices are working and I've tried another router.