Why is my Wifi connection slower than ethernet even though bandwidth should saturated?
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I'm wondering why it is that my wireless connection is slower than my wired connection for things going to the outside world (so, not files being transferred within the network), which is should be faster than the outside connection, which, I would think, would mean that downloading something like an ISO or other large file from the Internet should be the same either way since that should saturate the connection anyway.
Does it have something to do with the encryption (WPA)?
Could it have something to do with MTU since the MTU for ethernet can be in the range of 1500 to 9000 bytes, and 2304 bytes for 802.11?
Do wireless packets have to be buffered, whereas this wouldn't be an issue with ethernet?
What's the math behind the difference?
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