On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 23:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Keith Clark writes: > > > I'm running Fedora 15 on a laptop with a Broadcom 4318 wireless card. > > The Network Settings shows I'm connected at 54 Mbps, but my actual > > download speeds tested with speedtest.net show only about 0.15 Mbps > > download and 0.24 Mbps upload. My service is 2 Mbps download and 0.5 > > Mbps upload. > > > > I'm using the B43 driver. > > > > Any ideas on how to correct this? > > The first thing to do is to figure out exactly what that needs correcting. > > speedtest.net does not measure the speed between your laptop and your > router, they measure the speed between you, and their servers. The same goes > for any other web-based bandwidth measuring service. None of them have a > magical ability to hack into your wireless router, and open a direct > connection from your wireless router and your laptop, in other to measure > how fast you can fling packets to your router, obviously. All they can do is > measure how fast you can download something from them. > > Unless you are sitting in speedtest.net's data center, and your wireless > connection goes directly to their network, your speed will also be obviously > impacted by your Internet provider's performance, and every Internet > provider between your provider, and theirs. > > So, in order to confirm that you have a wireless performance problem, you > will need to perform exactly the same test, but this time with a wired > connection to your router. If your bandwidth is now close to your expected > 2mbps bandwidth, then only that would demonstrate an issue with your > wireless setup. If you still end up getting subpar bandwidth, your wireless > bandwith would obviously not be your issue. > Hey Sam, Sorry I didn't mention that before. Yes, I've tried wired and I get the correct speeds as they should be. 2 Mbps download and 0.5 Mbps upload. Keith -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
