On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:
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John Stoffel wrote:
Andy> There were a lot of suggestions in your email - thanks!
You're welcome!
Andy> I'll need time to try them out. I'll report back when I get more data.
Good luck with it.
Hi gang,
OK, I think I have succeeded in fixing the problem. Here's what I did:
a) reset the Linksys box
b) picked a new radio frequency that does *not* have interference issues with my 2.4GHz wireless telephone...(I haven't tried the microwave oven yet...).
I've never been able to find a channel free from microwave oven interference, sadly. I'm convinced my ancient microwave puts out a wide spectrum and leaks plenty.
c) insured that the Linksys box was in Gateway mode (vs. router mode which seems not to work for me).
After doing these three things, my laptop with 802.11g capability can download files off of my server at a sustained rate of 13Mbits/sec according to iptraf, or 1.4Mbytes/sec according to sftp. This is one laptop doing one download, no other computers on the wireless network. This is *much* faster that what I was previously able to sustain.
On my older laptop with only 802.11b capability, by itself, I repeated the same experiment and saw a rate of 425Kbytes/sec according to sftp, or 3.7Mbits/sec according to iptraf.
With both computers downloading simultaneously, the wireless net naturally downshifted to the lower speed. When I turned off the download on the slower computer, the speed quickly increased for the faster laptop.
The aforementioned data rates have been sustained for at least 15 minutes, where before, I couldn't do this for even 1-2 minutes.
I think I can declare victory. Thanks for the help!
Happy New Year!
Andy
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