> On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > >> On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm >> hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it. >> >> My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one >> Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine acting as my firewall, another LFS >> laptop that is connected only occasionally, a Windows 8.1 laptop, 3 >> iPhones of varying ages, 2 iPads, 1 Android tablet device, a couple of >> other proprietary tablets and a Buffalo Linkstation that provides most >> of the connectivity. >> >> The internet access is via Cable. I run an ethernet cable from the >> cable modem to the firewall machine, then from the firewall machine to >> the Linkstation's WAN port. The firewall machine's WiFi interface is >> disabled (I didn't include its driver when I built the kernel for that >> machine). The Jessie box, a phone-to-ethernet device and a NAS are >> plugged into the Linkstation wired LAN ports. Everything else connects >> to the Linkstation WiFi. The LinkStation offers 2.4GHz and 5GHz >> connections, the 2.4GHz is b/g and the 5GHz is ac I believe. Those >> devices that can use the 5GHz connection, are, the rest are using the >> 2.4GHz. >> >> I have my doubts about cross-LAN throughput. For example, as I write I >> am using WinSCP on the Windows 8.1 laptop to copy a movie file from my >> Jessie box to the laptop. (The movie concerned is not copyright before >> anyone asks). The Jessie box is connected to the LinkStation by wired >> ethernet, and the Windows 8.1 laptop by WiFi. I am getting a transfer >> rate consistently across the life of the connection of 880KB/s. I'd >> expect it to be a lot faster than that. I checked the WinSCP software >> is capable of limiting the connection speed, but is set not to.
>> . >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Mark > Delurking. Just a quick suggestion here. Do you have the proprietary > non-free firmware installed for all your NICs? When they work without the > firmware it is often a much slower connection, like b when the NIC is capable > of n or a/c, but only when using the proprietary firmware. Cathy >
