On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 19:26 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > Between my laptop and my server there is a WiFi modem and an ADSL > router and I think the comms is too slow. The device speed for each is: > > Server: Intel 82567LF Gigabit: 10/100/1000 Mb/s > > Belkin Wireless F5D7230-4v7: 10/100 Mb/s > > Belkin ModemRouter F1PI241ENau: 10/100 Mb/s > > Asus Zenbook UX31: ath9k: 54 Mb/s > RJ45 via USB: 10/100 Mb/s > > and Cat5 cables. > > On an unloaded network I can get about 6.5 Mb/s when I use the cable > connection to the laptop but nothing better than about 1.5 Mb/s for the > wireless connection - and even that is when the laptop and the wireless > router are only about 1.5m apart (the XFCE network icon shows connection > quality is then at about 90%). > > Anyone know why the wireless performance is not better than this? Distance from laptop to the wireless AP? Other machines are using wireless at the same time? Interference from a wireless phone base station? Other Wifi networks in neighbouring apartments using a stronger signal and/or overlapping channels? Metal shielding (an upright piano is good for this :-) or thick walls, especially reinforced concrete? Multipath interference? An intervening "wireless repeater"? etc. etc. poc -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
