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

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Dominic Lepiane wrote:
> 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.

the issue is that on a notebook that is on wifi, it can pull stuff off the
internet at 1.5Mbs.  Yet if it tries to pull stuff off the LAN (over the
same wifi connection), its slow as snot, like practically not moving at
all slow.  I guess i could try different channels, but it seems unlikely
to me that the channel i'm using somehow impacts how local vs. internet
traffic.

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