When the first 802.11b wireless networking products appeared back in the late 1990s, the 11Mbps speeds on offer seemed impressive compared to the still-widespread 10Mbps Ethernet wired networks. Since then, Gigabit Ethernet has become the most common wired technology, but wireless standards have dallied along behind, only recently reaching 450Mbps with three-stream implementations of the 802.11n standard. And with the extra protocol overheads needed to ensure your precious data doesn’t simply disappear into the ether, real-world data throughput in wireless networks still languish way below the 100Mbps mark for even the fastest multi-stream implementations.
Source
Linear Mode
