Mar 10, 2014

Typical Network Speeds

Borrowed from http://www.channelz.org/network-speed-table/


Tech Scope                             High                                      Low              Typical
POTS WAN 56,000 300 50,000
ISDN WAN 2,048,000 128,000 128,000
T1 WAN 1,544,000 1,544,000 1,544,000
E1 WAN 2,048,000 2,048,000 2,048,000
802.11b WLAN 11,000,000 4,300,000 4,300,000
DSL WAN 52,000,000 256,000 6,000,000
802.16 WiMAX WLAN/WWAN 70,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000
Ethernet LAN 10,000,000 10,000,000 10,000,000
Cable WAN 400,000,000 512,000 16,000,000
Token RingLAN 16,000,000 4,000,000 16,000,000
802.11g WLAN 54,000,000 4,300,000 19,000,000
802.11a WLAN 54,000,000 5,500,000 23,000,000
E3 WAN 34,368,000 34,368,000 34,368,000
T3 WAN 44,773,000 44,773,000 44,773,000
802.11n WLAN 248,000,000 4,300,000 74,000,000
Fast Ethernet LAN 100,000,000 100,000,000 100,000,000
FDDI WAN 200,000,000 100,000,000 100,000,000
ATM LAN/WAN 622,000,000 622,000,000 622,000,000
Gigabit Ethernet LAN 1,000,000,000 1,000,000,000 1,000,000,000

GB = 1e9
10GB = 1e10