WiFi performace
There is at least on n810 project that I have not worked on because the performance of the unit on WiFi is just *that bad* considering what it should be capable of.
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wget http://host/file -O /dev/null I have tried many different tweaks and they all top out at a very anemic 750kB/s, with many good networks topping out at only 500kB/s. some of the things I have tried
I know it's not the network as other WiFi devices easily dwarf it in terms of performance. I'm not asking for 50MB/s I would be happy with it being able to push 3+MB/s over the interface. At the maximum speed of 750kB/s it would take 30+ minutes to push 1GB vs no more than 6 minutes over USB. To update a 6GB music library it would take 3+ hours over WiFi and no more than 36 minutes over USB. A little more perspective is that my wife's iPod nano will easily upload 6-7GB of music in a few minutes. |
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This may be wrong but I was under the impression that the N810 was 802.11b. I would wonder if the available speed represents a compromise in battery consumption. Faster almost always takes more power.
Edit: I stand corrected the Wikipedia says b/g. |
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I think there is thread here about 'overclocked' wi-fi driver by Serge and you can find his reports also in maemo-developers and cx3110x-devel at garage.maemo.org
(thread WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?) Not sure now but the speed was over 1MB/s then. This is partly due to suboptimal code in cx3110x driver and slow SPI bus used for talking to the chip (raising SPI bus clock helps). |
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Usually you won't get more than some 22 Mbit/s actual throughput over 802.11.g, except when running some vendor-specific optimized setup (e.g. d-link router + d-link adapter, or asus-to-asus).
(wikipedia actually claims just 19 Mbit/s as average throughput: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#802.11g) Divide by 8 to get Mbytes per second. |
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I have pushed large files over to my N800 via wireless (and scp), but I usually time it so that the amount of time it takes is not a problem (start the transfer just before dinner, for example). I think you are seeing what pretty much everyone else is, in terms of transfer speed. Craig... |
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2-3MB/s would be a several fold increase and at least within the realm of normalcy. The numbers that I am getting are so fixed it's like I'm running up against some sort of hard limit somewhere.
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I think it's nothing unusuall at all.
Why? In mobile device when You connect subparts it's normal that You don't have full-speed on all channels (SPI for example) - That's not a way of designing battery operated devices. Other factors counts more than that. Finally - it's not a network switch where it's network performance defines it's usefulness. You tweak connections to fit devices needs and at this point is browsing the web, listening to streamed music, receiveing an e-mail - so that's what device is design for. |
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