Yeah, but that's the speed between your computer and your router/wireless access point. 54Mb/s is about standard for 802.11g networks. Mine is running the 802.11n standard, which can hit 300Mb/s.

None of which matters for internet connections, since that's the speed between the router and the ISP. Most likely brickme is using a Cat5e wired connection between his computer and the router/modem and sees that 100Mb/s connection and thinks it is the internet connection instead of the local network speed. Which means that if he was using Cat6 cable (and had Gigabit ports) he'd appear to have a 1,000Mb/s connection, assuming anyone bothered to put Gigabit ports on a router, which nobody would bother.

Last edited by Dr Neo Lao (March 27, 2009 (10:38pm))