Slow wifi - Debian Lenny
Hi there
I'm currently running a small debian server at home. It's pretty low spec, with an Intel Celeron 433 and 256mb of RAM. However, my speeds (both HTTP/FTP download and SCP transfer over the network) are pitiful. 44kb/s is typical, while my laptop, on the desk next to the server, can download at 800kb/s on a good day. I'm thinking the problem is the wifi. It's an old Ralink RT2500 PCI card, and I'm thinking the processor isn't fast enough. However, when I'm downloading something through HTTP (Just an example, I'm downloading mysql at the moment), processor usage will only be 10%. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong with it? The wifi driver? The chipset? (Intel 440BX). I know it's old hardware, and I should probably update, but the 22w idle power consumption is pretty hard to match when you're building PC's out of spares. Here's the output to LSPCI: Quote:
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If your wifi works slow you can try turining off encription, it may help.
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What kernel/driver you use?
Do you have random speed and abnormal packet loss on a ping to the gateway? Did you tried a wget/ftp session to anything? it stalls? do you loose speed? I have the same problem with recent kernels/drivers on the same network card in a desktop machine and I try to identify the potential cause. |
Turning off encryption is not an option. I'd run a cable if I could, but the server is the other side of the house from the router.
It's 2.6.26 from memory, and the driver is wext. I used wget to download wordpress, and that gave me about the same speed. SCP transfers across the network stall regularly, and end up giving an average speed of about 38kb/s. Ok, here's the output of pinging the gateway: Quote:
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Anyone got any ideas?
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does it work better with random laptop/pc on same distance?
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Seems to me the card is the problem.
Any way to replace the card? Also make sure every host has a different IP |
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I'll stick a USB2.0 PCI card in there (USB 1 motherboard) and see what speeds I can get using a USB adaptor. |
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