Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN performance

2008-03-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Mar 2008, at 10:33, Florian Philipp wrote: ... both cards are cofigured for 54 MBit/s ... I only get about 13 MBit/s, both on NFS and scp. I'd be really quite happy with that. As BillK remarks, 50% of your 54 Mbit is consumed by protocol overhead. You're probably going to tell us that

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN performance

2008-03-21 Thread William Kenworthy
ahh, marketing. Some people will believe anything! Check the table at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/08/08/wireless_throughput.html or numerous other guides courtesy of google. This shows that maximum throughput is roughly 27Mb/s for 54g, but in my experience its much less in the

[gentoo-user] WLAN performance

2008-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Can anyone tell me how I could find the bottleneck on my wireless network? According to iwconfig, both cards are cofigured for 54 MBit/s but I only get about 13 MBit/s, both on NFS and scp. Might it be the driver (iwl3945, rt61 from kernel 2.6.24)? Unfortunately, iwspy doesn't work on th