Hi
I have the following setup:
A Mandrake 8.1 server/router connected to a cable modem through a 3Com
NIC.
A second Netgear NIC feeds an internal LAN through a 4-port Netgear hub.
1 Pbook G3 (OSX 10.1) wired to the hub.
1 Airport BS bridging the wireless and wired network.
1 TiBook (OSX 10.1) connecting to the Airport.
My problem is transfer speeds from my wireless TiBook to either
wired machine and vice versa.
I just copied a 3Mb file from my TiBook to the Linux box and it took
about 10 minutes.
I copied the same file from my wired Pbook to the server and it took a
couple of seconds.
The relevant output of ifconfig on my TiBook is:
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,b6,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:30:65:14:27:80
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
The output of ifconfig on my wired Pbook:
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,b6,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:05:02:f5:96:7e
media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <ful
l-duplex>
and my Linux box:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:B8:0C
inet addr:66.65.21.121 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:306396 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:138779 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1984 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:308757850 (294.4 Mb) TX bytes:12553950 (11.9 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:AA:94:A4
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:139278 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:251155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:3484 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:18928264 (18.0 Mb) TX bytes:309786537 (295.4 Mb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240
Has anybody any ideas why wireless<->wired communication is so slow?
I'm assuming it's the Airport bridge - does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks
Kev.
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