Macs have slower WiFi?

[GuitarG20]

Well the connection is blaring on certain networks. On my home network, it is consistently so.

The connection at work has improved somewhat, but still leaves a lot to be desired:

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the fact that you're getting more than 0.5 Mbits up impresses me... Road Runner would never give me more than that up, even when i had just cycled the modem.

 

[AppleGoat]

the fact that you're getting more than 0.5 Mbits up impresses me... Road Runner would never give me more than that up, even when i had just cycled the modem.

Lol I was afraid of that. Optimum Online, what I have back on Long Island, is blazing fast, unlike anything I have up here. Here's are my latest numbers..this is basically as good as it gets at work:

 

[adztaylor]

Looks like some posters are trying to turn it into another "look at me and my fast internet" thread.

 

[takeshi74]

To my surprise, Amtrak now provides WiFi. Unfortunately, it was painfully slow, worse than my apartment. However, the passenger sitting next to me was rocking an Acer and was breezing through websites, well I could barely download a page with every element on the page properly loaded.

What gives? Obviously my internet connection is not broken since it is fast when the connection is good, but it seems less robust when it's not. How come the guy next to me with the bargain PC notebook was able to have a decent browsing experience while I had anything but? Any ideas?

You had marginal connectivity (probably for reasons already stated above). He did not.

 

[vitzr]

Well most other PC notebook housing are made from the same stuff, right?

Great Question!

No they are not. And herein lies the great misunderstanding.

Plastic is a generic word for a material that comes in many quality grades, thicknesses, tensile strengths, and other variables. Their are single substance plastics and composites like Lenovo uses for the ThinkPad.Therefore to say that "Plastic" is inferior, or less than an excellent material is to mislead oneself.

Just like there is no such thing as pure "Aluminum". Yes, we use the word Aluminum in a generic way, just like the word "Plastic is used generically.

But the truth is Aluminum also comes in quality grades, and is comprized of a mix of metals which fall into the category of "Alloys". Some cheap and very easy to dent, or damage. Then we have the high quality Aluminum Alloy that Apple uses.

Based on both my comprehensive knowledge of materials, and my years of experience using both ThinkPads, and PowerBooks which were then renamed to MacBook Pro's. I find these two are the pinnacle of the Apple laptop and the PC laptop.

Both are extremely good products whose characteristics when it comes to the use of case materials are simply different. I have nothing bad to say about either. Conversely I could go on and on about the advantages they each offer.

Working in a cross platform environment, they both have served me very well, and I continue to buy new ones each year.

Cheers...

 

[lacoste-rocker]

in my experience, my MBP has always been faster than windows laptops on the same network...

I thought this too.