Interesting Links for 15-07-2013

• A short guide to understanding introverts
  (tags: introversion viasupergee comic )
• Why Nokia didn't choose Android to replace Symbian.
  Quite glad they didn't. I'm getting an MS phone, but I want there to be competition in the market.
  (tags: android nokia microsoft phones )
• Treating students like adults
  (tags: education academia )
• On the Rowling/Galbraith Thing, And Why Publishers Are Still Necessary
  (tags: books jkrowling business publishing )
• Man views porn using Safari, files lawsuit against Apple
  (tags: law pornography apple usa OhForFucksSake )
• The NYPD are paying people to bait muslims into saying things about Terrorism
  (tags: police islam usa newyork )
• Creeping out a creepy guy.
  (tags: viaWoodpijn harrassment women )
• Nice video explanation of how awful the plan was in Skyfall
  (tags: JamesBond video )
• WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME PINK FLOYD ARE ON SPOTIFY???
  (tags: spotify music PinkFloyd )
• Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center
  (tags: viafanf business amazon )
• JK Rowling recorded two dubstep albums as Burial
  (tags: funny jkrowling )
• Leaked letter shows ISPs and government at war
  (tags: politics uk government internet )

Benchmarking my network

It seems that I can get around 40MBit to the internet, peaking at 45MBit (right now - it varies depending on time of day). That's from a laptop plugged into the router.
I can get 20MBit on my laptop via WiFi.
I can also get that 40-45MBit across the powerline networking into the study, because the desktop in there can download things just as fast.
And I can get around 320MBit between the desktop and the NAS, across the gigabit hub.

Noting purely for my own interests. I am curious as to why the WiFi tops out around 20MBit - It's an "Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 100" - which should be able to manage up to 150, so even with that being an "ideal, not achievable in real life" figure, I'm slightly surprised that even when it's next to the router it can't manage more. I wonder if it's hooked up internally over something much slower. The router is a WRT610N - and tests show that it can manage 117MBit at close range. I shall have to have a play with Julie's laptop at some point...