Question about transfer speeds

[John Davis]

I'll try that. What should I expect with iperf. I ran it once already and got 95 Mbits/s from the wireless laptop to the ethernet laptop.

this is what it should look like testing a wired to wired connection - test that first, as you need to be sure your gigabit ethernet isn't actually running at 100mbit/s (which will happen with a bad cable) before you even START thinking about testing wifi to wired

[  5] local 192.168.1.5 port 51313 connected to 192.168.1.35 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   958 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   944 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.10 GBytes   942 Mbits/sec                  receiver


iperf Done.

 

[Morris]

Processor has nothing to do with transfer rates. Small files will act like that. Try transferring something about a gig or at least 100 MB. If that is also slow, then backup your router, reset and then restore the config.

Good luck,

Morris

 

[Jherb]

Thanks for everyone's help. I'm not really sure what is happening, but I'll just give an update in case it helps someone else.

I ended up resetting the router as a last resort, and set everything up again. I still have asymmetry but its much better in terms of speed. Its 60-70MBs in one direction, and 40-50 in the other direction. I transferred the same file which is about 4 gb.

Its at least faster for me so less painful to wait for transfers, but I don't know why I was having the issues in the first place and why they still exist, but to a lesser degree.

Thanks all.