On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:49:43AM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > > > > On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > >> On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm > >> hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. > >> > >> My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one > >> Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine acting as my firewall, another LFS > >> laptop that is connected only occasionally, a Windows 8.1 laptop, 3 > >> iPhones of varying ages, 2 iPads, 1 Android tablet device, a couple of > >> other proprietary tablets and a Buffalo Linkstation that provides most > >> of the connectivity. > >> > >> The internet access is via Cable. I run an ethernet cable from the > >> cable modem to the firewall machine, then from the firewall machine to > >> the Linkstation's WAN port. The firewall machine's WiFi interface is > >> disabled (I didn't include its driver when I built the kernel for that > >> machine). The Jessie box, a phone-to-ethernet device and a NAS are > >> plugged into the Linkstation wired LAN ports. Everything else connects > >> to the Linkstation WiFi. The LinkStation offers 2.4GHz and 5GHz > >> connections, the 2.4GHz is b/g and the 5GHz is ac I believe. Those > >> devices that can use the 5GHz connection, are, the rest are using the > >> 2.4GHz. > >> > >> I have my doubts about cross-LAN throughput. For example, as I write I > >> am using WinSCP on the Windows 8.1 laptop to copy a movie file from my > >> Jessie box to the laptop. (The movie concerned is not copyright before > >> anyone asks). The Jessie box is connected to the LinkStation by wired > >> ethernet, and the Windows 8.1 laptop by WiFi. I am getting a transfer > >> rate consistently across the life of the connection of 880KB/s. I'd > >> expect it to be a lot faster than that. I checked the WinSCP software > >> is capable of limiting the connection speed, but is set not to. > > >> . > >> > >> Thanks in advance > >> > >> Mark > > > Delurking. Just a quick suggestion here. Do you have the proprietary > > non-free firmware installed for all your NICs? When they work without the > > firmware it is often a much slower connection, like b when the NIC is > > capable of n or a/c, but only when using the proprietary firmware. >
Interesting. The Jessie box is using wired LAN via an onboard (ie part of the motherboard) ethernet controller (motherboard is an ASUS P6T iirc). I wouldn't expect it to need firmware, would I be wrong? At the laptop end, it's running Windows 8.1 so gawd alone knows what can / should be updated... Mark
