Brett Parker wrote:
On 14 Oct 12:53, nev young wrote:
Just wondered if anyone here had a quick answer to this.
Under windows my wifi network runs at 56Mb/s. However, the same (laptop) hardware running ubuntu (9.04) can only manage 11Mb/s.
Is there a way to get the full speed out of it?
ENOTENOUGHINFO...
Well now I have your attention :-)
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 umbongo
networkmanager (0.7.0.100) info gives: Interface 802.11 WiFi (wlan0) driver rtl8180 speed 54Mbps Security WPA/WPA2
Also, is this just reported speed? Have you tried transferring things in both doze and linux and compared the time taken to download the same file over the network (note: you'll want to use a local file to actually be able to tell!)
these are actual speeds taken tonight.
transferring a 350Mb file in linux by lan; file operations reported: transfer speed of 9.9MB/s time taken was 37sec
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)
So tonight it looks like the hardware is trying to make me look like a pratt. The linux wifi was almost twice as fast as I normally get and windows was quite a bit slower than it used to be. I don't use windows any more but I do still have a bootable partition left on one of the laptops.
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.
Nev