On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 20:25:43 -0500 Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 04:51:33PM -0700, stan wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:25:32 +1100 > > Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > > > > > Having downloaded an updated version of the driver from > > > Github that now compiles and runs with the 4.13 kernel I have > > > looked at the wifi properties under Gnome and they tell me the > > > connection speed is 450Mb/sec which is about the connection speed > > > I get under Windows 10 with the 2.4 GHz interface. Under Windows > > > 10 the 5 GHz interface connects at the documented speed of 1.3 > > > Mb/sec. If I use the 2.4 GHz interface for the device gnome tells > > > me the connection speed is 252 Mb/sec. > > > > > > Why are the connection speeds in Fedora so degraded? > > > > I don't have an answer to your question, just a suggestion. What > > speed do you actually get when you test it? If the real life speed > > rather than the reported speed is different, then it is time to > > investigate why. If there is a real life discrepancy, then it > > could be that the firmware in linux is reverse engineered versus > > the custom tuned firmware for windows written by the manufacturer. > > > > Not sure if this will work for you, but there should be one you can > > use somewhere on the web. > > > > https://fast.com/ > Is one of them reporting in "MB", and the other in "Mb" ?? the > former is megaBYTES, the latter is megaBITS. They differ by roughly > a factor of ten. It could be something like that, except the math doesn't work. Stephen is saying that he gets 450 Mb/sec at 2.4 GHz in W10, and 252 Mb/sec at 2.4 GHz in F26(?). That's only a factor of ~2. And the 5 GHz is 450 Mb/sec in F26, but 1.3 Mb/sec (Gb/sec?) in W10. If it's GHz, ~3. These are all reported / theoretical speeds rather than measured speeds. What matters is how fast the bits move when doing a real task. I don't know where he lives (Australia?), but I think 1300 Mb/sec is faster than most real world networks support, though Japan and Korea might be approaching that. Even 450 Mb/ sec is a respectable speed. The average speed in the US, last article I saw, was around 250 Mb/sec, though high speed connections are available at around 1000 Mb/sec. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
