Optimizing The Performance Of Your Home Network; Optimizing Wireless Performance - NETGEAR EVA9000 User Manual

• Streaming MP3 audio requires less than 1 Mbps per stream and
does not strain most modern networks. Like video, however,
streaming audio is also sensitive to latency and packet loss, so a
congested network or a noisy link can cause problems.
Optimizing the Performance of Your Home
Network
To get the best performance from your home network, you should
optimize each portion of the network, as well and place files in the
network where they will get the bandwidth their use will demand.

Optimizing Wireless Performance

The speed and operating distance or range of your wireless connection
can vary significantly based on the physical placement of the wireless
router. You should choose a location for your router that will maximize
the network speed.
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Actual data throughput varies. Network conditions and
environmental factors, including volume of network traffic,
building materials and construction, and network overhead,
can lower actual data throughput rate.
To find the best location, start the Network test (from the
Supervisor Functions screen) running on the Digital
Entertainer Elite, and then move the Digital Entertainer Elite
and the wireless router. Monitor the Network test results to
determine which location maximizes network speed.
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