nev young wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Hard to say without knowing: * wifi card in question
it has writ on it: micronet sp908gk v6 micronet 2.4GHz 54 Mbps 802.11G wireless lan card
* driver you're using for it in umbongonetworkmanager (0.7.0.100) info gives: Interface 802.11 WiFi (wlan0) driver rtl8180 speed 54Mbps Security WPA/WPA2
It's not listed on http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Micronet so you might like to report it. Looking at drivers/net/wireless/rtl8180_dev.c in the kernel looks like it at least attempts 54Mbps.
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transferring a 350Mb file in linux by wifi; file operations reported: transfer speed of 1.8MB/s (which is faster than I usually get!) time taken was 4min 14sec
transferring a 350Mb file in windows by wifi; transfer speed: well it doesn't say. time taken was 3min 15sec (rather slower than expected)
If you're seeing differences between times, is there much WiFi interference nearby? Many other networks on nearby channels in the scan results?
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The same file was used in each case from the file server to the laptop, the only difference was that in doze it went via samba rather than by NFS. Oh doG! Don't tell me it's cos samba is faster than NFS.
It depends how it's configured, but I'd expect it to be the other way around. NFS is older (they've had longer to optimise it) and I've seen it used on bigger sites. You could try transferring with smbclient to remove that difference.
Hope that helps,