Wireless local area network in a prehospital environment

Table 1 File transfer directions and rates (kbps, mean ± SD, n = 4)

A. File transfer rate in an open area between two laptops for different file sizes and link statuses
	1 MB	10 MB	100 MB	1000 MB
Excellent	400	2000	1660	980
Good	210	890	1110	830
Fair	90	660	740	660
Poor	60	220	250	340
B. Transfer rates for a 50-MB file between a server and clients under different link statuses
I. Server to one client
	Pushing	Pulling
Excellent	3090 ± 70	5540 ± 180
Good	2870 ± 280	5530 ± 130
Fair	630 ± 500	2070 ± 550
II. One client to server
	Pushing	Pulling
Excellent	2600 ± 110	5210 ± 410
Good	2710 ± 330	4350 ± 1030
Fair	340 ± 80	750 ± 440
III. Two clients to server
	Client 1	Client 2
Excellent	2160 ± 60	3130 ± 320
Good	2140 ± 370	3230 ± 40
IV. Client 1 to client 2
Excellent	2400 ± 70
Good	2560 ± 130
V. Server to one client while moving
Excellent	2500 ± 500
Good	1200 ± 410

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