Re: Speed up a WiFI interface ??
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 07:14:19PM +0100, Bernhard Frühmesser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For a friend i setup a small RAID-1 config using Wheezy on one of his old
> machines, just to backup his most important stuff. Unfortunately the
> location where the box is placed can not be reached via cable because of
> building conditions, so only Wireless is possible.
>
> I have installed package "firmware-ralink" for the network card and these
> modules are loaded after reboot:
>
> rt2800pci
> rt2800lib
> rt2x00pci
>
> After using wpa_passphrase and adding wlan0 to /etc/network/interfaces all
> works so far, the client get´s an ip from the dhcp server, can copy stuff
> and so on.
>
> The Problem is that it´s extremely slow.
>
> The WLAN-Router is setup to support 11bgn mixed mode, channel bandwith
> "audo" and max transfer rate 150Mbit/s.
>
> But when i check the client side with iwconfig i get this:
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"My friends SSID"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:MAC-Adress
> Bit Rate=58.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=45/70 Signal level=-65 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:5788 Invalid misc:58 Missed beacon:0
>
> The wlan-card is supposed to support 150Mbit/s as well.
>
> I have tested and position the box right next to the wlan-Router but this
> doesn´t help much except the Link Quality is then 70/70.
>
> I have used iptraf to check for the data rates and the overall input rate
> for this interface is about 5,8 Mbit/s which is not even 5% of the max
> (theoretical) speed. I know that the max speed of a WLAN is never reached
> but 5,8 Mbit/s overall speed seems very slow to me - no?
>
> Anything i can do to speed this up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> BF.
>
>
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Megabits are not the same as megabytes. Eight bits in byte + start/stop and overheads.
150Mb is probably closer to 150/10MB - so 150Mb = 15MB in ideal conditions without any loss.
Add in radio noisy environments / other interference and you can soon lose speed :(
All the best,
AndyC
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