I'm using a Panda Express USB WiFi dongle on a PC Engines apu4 machine.
Basic SSH sessions to the device run decent, but when any sort of data
transfer is done to the device (even serving back pfstat images from the
device's local httpd), I notice high latency.
# ifconfig run0
run0:
flags=a48843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF6TEMP,AUTOCONF6,AUTOCONF4>
mtu 1500
lladdr 9c:ef:d5:ca:cc:fc
index 7 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid WIFI-NET chan 1 bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:14 -51dBm wpakey
wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp
inet6 fe80::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:ccfc%run0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 192.168.1.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
While running ping when downloading ~ 300k of images from httpd, notice the
latency. This latency only occurs when doing any sort of activity over the
run0 link.
# ping -qc 5 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 17.725/1783.267/3373.620/1402.106 ms
Is there a better USB dongle that doesn't have these issues?
Thanks!
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