paul lee  wrote:
>  CG> I had a T430 that died (very unusual for Lenovo T series), I now have
>  CG> a T470 I bought used off eBay for rather less than I expected, lovely!
>
> I love the ThinkPad hardware; and while the T430/T440 series have SOME of the
> cool stuff from the old days, they are just beginning to be a little long in
> the tooth for me. I'm not very hardware intensive, but... I will be looking
at
> some other ThinkPad models in the future. I might just bite the bullet and go
> CURRENT T-series, but I haven't decided just yet.
>
>  CG> My WiFi connection reports that it is 300Mb/s but the real speed is
>  CG> never anything like that.  Here are my results sending from T470
>  CG> laptop (WiFi connection, reports as 300Mb/s) to desktop:-
>  CG>
>  CG> bone-debian-9.4-console-armhf-2018-07-08-1gb.img                  100%
>  CG> 850MB 16.2MB/s   00:52
>  CG>
>  CG> So I get about half the 'expected' speed, also quite similar to your
>  CG> speeds I think.
>
> Understood... however, you are getting a LITTLE better speeds than me; I
wonder
> what type of WiFi chip/card is in the T470 vs what is CURRENT??? Maybe it
would
> be worth it, for me, to upgrade the WiFi chip/card in my T430s to the best it
> will take, OR whatever is current in 2021...
>
> Even if I won't get the 100mb/s that I had THOUGHT, I'd probably see a better
> transfer rate anyway. Hmmmmm...
>
Is it really that important or significant?  I.e. does it really
matter if a transfer takes 15 seconds rather than 10 seconds?

I run my (incremental, so rarely really huge) backups overnight via
anacron so whether they take 10 minutes or 30 minutes doesn't matter
at all.  As long as they complete before I wake up in the morning it's
fine.

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Chris Green
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