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

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.
>

to make things less confusing, since i don't think i was very clear,
here's the problem in a nutshell:

 wifi -> LAN = fast
 LAN -> wifi = slow
 wifi <-> internet = fast

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