network throughput over a wireless access point is bad for LAN traffic, yet good for internet traffic

Dominic Lepiane archangel
Mon Jun 19 13:56:15 PDT 2006


On Monday 19 June 2006 12:15, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that all network traffic over the
> WAP that is local (just on my home LAN) is horribly slow (like 1KB/s
> slow), yet all traffic over the WAP to/from the internet is fine (about
> 1.5Mb/s).  I've tried scp/http/nfs and all of them are slow as can be
> possibly imagined when between LAN systems (both between wireless systems,
> and between wireless & wired systems). The problem does not exist between
> wired systems.  There are no errors in dmesg/messages, its just like
> something is swallowing 99% of the packets.
>
> Anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions/ideas?

Tried different wireless channels yet?  Sounds like an interference problem.
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Dominic Lepiane

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