Speed of 802.11g - Dumb question

[nhkader]

I am correct in understanding that the quoted speed is:
54 Megabits per second

Realistic:
20 Megabits per second

Does this mean that to get it to Megabytes per second I divide by 8?

The reason is that I am testing my connection (Airport Extreme to Netgear DG834G) and I get something like 1.5 Megabytes per second with the router on mixed b&g mode. This translates to 12 Mbps (megabits per second).

is 8 still the accepted word length.

Apologies if this is a dumb question.

 

[jxyama]

8 is still the word length...

where are you getting this 1.5 MBps? from the internet downloads? then the bottleneck could be your ISP. if it's computer to computer then... hmm...

mixed b/g will run at the slowest one on the network, i believe...

 

[nhkader]

I'm getting 1.5 megaBYTES per second - this then equates to 12 megaBITs per second - so I guess not too bad then?

I have ADSL at 512kbps (61 KB/s).