can a macbook pro retina support 100mbs download speed ?

well , I recently purchased a TP link 1043nd router which can deliver 300mbps...
I have an internet connection off 100 mb.
when I surf wirelessly, I get about 60-70 mbs out of the 100... can the macbook pro retina support 300 mbps or this is the max download speed i will get ?

 

When connected with an Ethernet cable, yes. On wireless, on a 5 GHz network, probably. Note that you will not be able to get 300 Mbps on a wireless network regardless of the router/wireless adapter on Wireless N. What you're seeing, especially if you're on a 2.4 GHz network is just the nature of the beast, wireless will have less throughput than the advertised link rate (that's your 300 Mbps) due to overhead and interference. You can't reduce the overhead associated with the communication protocols, but you can minimize interference.

You could try setting your router to a different channel out of channels 1, 6 or 11 if you're on 2.4 GHz or switch to a 5 GHz network if your router is dual band (your router isn't).

 

So aside from changing the channels from 1 ,6 or 11 , there is not much i can do ?
i will get 70 mbs download speed ?
btw , when i downloaded a game on steam i maanged to download it at 8mb download speed... weird...

 

Move closer to your router.

Do speedtest.net and see what you get at different location.

 

Do not confound Mb and MB, Mb = mega bit while MB = mega byte. There are 8 bits in one byte. That 8 MB/s in steam was 64 Mbps.

 

ahhh , so when i connect with a cable and speed net.net says im getting 100 , its 100 Mbps and not 100 MB... ?

 

Correct. My Internet connection is 50 Mb/s. When I'm downloading files, I reach a maximum of a little more than 6 MB/s, which fits the math nearly exactly.


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Hmm so 70 Mbits is what i get according to speednet on wireless, and that is pretty much the max i can get on wireless? Even though my router supports a lot more and the wirless card in the macbook pro retina should also support 100 MBits ?
What if i get an alienware laptop with killer wirless net card, still get same peformance ?

 

WPA encryption slows down wireless speeds as well. Small price to pay for the extra security.

I probably should have made my initial reply more clear. I get 50 Mb/s downloads when using a wired connection. When using wireless, my performance is slightly less, about 5 Mb/s or so.

 

Im still missing 4-5MB of download speed which is annoying... =/ I should make a test and download through steam a game and see if i get 12MB download instead of 8MB...
Im just wondering if maybe the wireless network adapter in the macbook pro retina is the bottleneck ?

 

Have you messed around with network settings yet? For some reason, which I think is to make the computer seem faster, the firewall is disabled on OS X and it is the first thing that I enabled when I use Macs right out of tha box or after a reinstall.

Secondly, I was hitting a bottle neck of no speed what so ever on a 1-2 Mbps connection so I googled some and was able to fix the problem. First, there is this option of automatic IpV6 search, so you need to get it to manual or is manual to router NOT on auto. The second thing that I did was move the DNS server to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (google DNS). You can kill the plist files in the library folder in your home folder and do a restart. It has worked for me since then pretty.

 

I think you're getting about the maximum you can expect out of that router. First of all, it's a single band 2.4 GHz router. Most of the 802.11b/g/n routers I've used at home or elsewhere struggle to achieve connection speeds greater than 150 Mb/s on 2.4 GHz. I have one exemplary Netgear router that can connect at 300 Mb/s to a VAIO Y laptop at <7m and 240 Mb/s with a VAIO F laptop but still only 150 Mb/s with my Apple laptops/devices no matter how close. And that's the best I've seen from a single band router.

Also, the actual throughput is typically no better than 1/2 of the connection speed. Often it's closer to 1/3. So 60-70 Mb/s is pretty good. I routinely see around 50-60 Mb/s average throughput with a strong signal and a 130-150 Mb/s connection speed on a 2.4 GHz 802.11n network. Even with the aforementioned router-laptop combination that could connect at 300 Mb/s at short range, throughput was limited to about 100-120 Mb/s.

You can do a little better if you get a dual band 802.11n router and force it to use the 5 GHz band. Better still, get a dual band router that supports bonded connections utilizing both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands simultaneously. The key words to look for are "simultaneous dual band".

Finally, if you only need fast downloads occasionally (e.g. to download Steam games) then try a Thunderbolt to Gig-E adapter and a wired connection to your router. I've pretty much given up on wireless for really large file transfers or dependable DVD quality (or better) video streaming.