slow connection
Evgeniy Dushistov
dushistov at mail.ru
Fri Oct 31 12:00:18 PDT 2014
Hi,
I used linux 3.16.3 and b43 driver with firmware version 784.2.
$iwconfig
wlp4s0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"some sid"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 60:A4:4C:F0:DF:80
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-27 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:18981 Invalid misc:16901 Missed beacon:0
$lspci -v
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 02)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. AirPort Extreme
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at c1900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number dc-cb-e9-ff-ff-16-28-cf
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: bcma
to test speed I download file from wifi router with usb disk.
Under linux I got:
time curl 'ftp://192.168.1.1/somefile' -o res
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2147M 100 2147M 0 0 403k 0 1:30:52 1:30:52 --:--:-- 478k
real 90m52.745s
user 1m1.120s
sys 1m22.670s
On the same notebook, at the same place, but under Mac OS X I got:
time curl 'ftp://192.168.1.1/somefile' -o res
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2147M 100 2147M 0 0 8379k 0 0:04:22 0:04:22 --:--:-- 6801k
real 4m22.479s
user 0m9.149s
sys 0m31.209s
So it is 3.18 Mbit/s vs 71.57 MBit/s under the same conditions,
and the only difference is OS.
Any hints, how to speedup connection under linux?
--
/Evgeniy
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