* Larry Finger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> If you use a wired connection, what is your rate? How close is |> wireless to saturating your broadband connection?
Very close. The difference between wired and wireless is barely appreciable. On a wired connection for the same test (i.e. downloading the bzipped kernel tarball from a distant host with wget), the *reported* download rate varies between 613 and 617 KB/sec (it was 590--615 for the Broadcom 4318). The *actual* download time is somewhat faster with the wired connection---varying between 69sec and 73sec, as opposed to around 90sec for wireless. |> You appear to have averaged transmit and receive speeds. It would |> be better to report them separately, as the AP will always send at |> the highest rate it can. Sorry, I'm a complete amateur (as I'm sure you've already made out). Here are the numbers produced for the LAN by the script that you attached: ------- iIwconfig rate set to 6 Mbs Transmit rate: 4.21 4.15 4.18 4.21 4.14 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 16.2 16.2 16.2 16.0 16.2 Mbits/sec iIwconfig rate set to 9 Mbs Transmit rate: 6.01 5.97 5.96 5.93 5.96 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 16.9 17.0 16.7 16.9 16.4 Mbits/sec iIwconfig rate set to 11 Mbs Transmit rate: 6.15 6.15 6.16 6.22 6.14 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 13.7 13.4 13.7 13.7 13.6 Mbits/sec iIwconfig rate set to 18 Mbs Transmit rate: 9.93 10.1 10.0 9.95 9.92 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 17.4 17.5 17.5 17.4 17.4 Mbits/sec iIwconfig rate set to 24 Mbs Transmit rate: 11.9 12.0 12.0 12.1 12.0 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 17.8 17.7 17.6 17.7 17.6 Mbits/sec iIwconfig rate set to 36 Mbs Transmit rate: 15.0 15.1 15.0 14.9 14.9 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 17.9 17.8 17.9 17.8 17.7 Mbits/sec iIwconfig rate set to 48 Mbs Transmit rate: 17.0 17.1 17.1 17.0 17.1 Mbits/sec Receive rate: 17.8 18.1 17.9 17.9 17.9 Mbits/sec Iwconfig rate reset to 24 Mbs ------- Damn good, I'd say. The AP is conected to the server by way of a standard wired connection (the ethernet controller on the server is a Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T, with the b44 driver from 2.6.18). |> There is one patch that may help that is not in 2.6.21-rc4 - it |> does help my system at 48 Mbs. It is also attached. Thank you. I will try this after I've had a little sleep, but it doesn't look to me like the setup here needs a lot of help at 48 Mbs. This card is now working much better than the other two wireless cards I have, as long as I stay within 7 metres or so of the access point. Good night, Jim _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
