Test Three: Single Point with wired connections
We ran no signal test for this particular test, as both ends of the connection were wired up; this simply tested the throughput between the unit acting as the access point, and the unit acting as the bridge. Given the length of the cable, it's roughly equivalent to our 2m test with other wireless units — albeit a whole lot less portable, of course.
| Distance between PCs | Netgear WNHDEB111 | Linksys WAG160N | Billion BiPAC 7300N | Conceptronic 300Mbps | Linksys WRT160N |
| 2m, (no barriers) | 56.6Mbps | 19.8Mbps | 21Mbps | 15Mbps | 4.88Mbps |
It's here that we hit our really surprising real-world throughput figure, and it would suggest that the individual points are much better at communicating between themselves than using a presumably third-party chipset within a notebook or PC. It's a comfortable throughput for just about any application, including seamless streaming of HD video.
While the need to cable at both ends might seem limiting, it does make the WNHDEB111 a very worthwhile contender to hide behind, say, a plasma panel, and then run the connection to games consoles and media extenders, while your notebook systems utilise the wireless connection that comes with the kit.
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