[MacosNerd]

I looked here and on apple and so far I cannot find what the bandwidth for the airport extreme.
The apple site only says 5x faster.

Also with gigbit cards now the norm in macs, why does the airport extreme have 10/100bit ports

I'm finding that when I use ARD 3.0 to remote to my MacPro, performance is abysmal. its using a 10/100mbs router but I'm leaning towards a gigbit switch, but if I can get faster then 100mbs performance out of the airport extreme that may be an option too.

[Sherman Homan]

It wouldn't matter if you had fiber optic connections between your desktop and a wireless router. The bottleneck is your ISP. Even the oldest Airports operated at 10 mbs which is far faster than any residential service.

[MacosNerd]

Why should my ISP get involved when the two computers are on the same network.

I'm looking to see if using airport extreme will speed things up instead of using a standard 10/100 mbs router, so do you know what the bandwidth of airport extreme is?

[dowNNshift]

As far as wireless bandwidth goes;
802.11b is 11 mbps max, 802.11a/g is 54 mbps max, and 802.11i draft is 270 mbps max.

In my experience when running ARD3 on your LAN, wired connections are almost always better than wireless. If you're having bandwidth issues with your current setup, first try to lower the image quality slider. The more machines you're managing simultaniously on your LAN, the more available bandwidth you'll need -- justifying upgrading to gigabit hardware.

As far as WAN node management, about the only thing you can do lower the image quality slider to reduce the amount of data being transferred.

[dowNNshift]

Oh... and be advised in order to acheive 270 mbps on an 802.11i network, ALL nodes must be operating at 802.11i. Otherwise it will regress to the lower 54 mpbs speed.

[MacosNerd]

Ah thanks that's just what doctor ordered

I saw on amazon a 5 port gigbit switch for 60 (or 70 bucks) and I'm leaning towards that but I was curious as the bandwidth of the airport extreme. Sounds like its a no brainer to pick that up and see if that will help.

The frustrating part, is I use citrix on my work network and that operates on a 100mbs network and is much more faster then ARD.

Thanks I have tried lowering the quality down but that kind of defeats the purpose of using it remotely