5. The desktop computer is connected to the network via the mainboard’s integrated ASUS WiFi-g™ IEEE 802.11g controller. The notebook is connected to the network via the TRENDnet TEW-424UB 802.11g. Thus, we have a fully wireless connection.

The speeds are satisfactory; note also the long-awaited parity between reception and transmission in the full duplex mode. All the results we got in NetIQ Chariot are listed in the table below:

Next we performed copying in Windows Explorer to and from the USB hard drive attached to the WL-500G Deluxe and measured the data-transfer rate. The speeds are low: 1.3MB/s at writing and 0.7MB/s at reading.