[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] wireless speed issues

[From: Collin R. Mulliner]

Hi,

while playing around in my home network I noticed that wireless is kind
of slow, I only have 1.5Mbit dsl so I didn't noticed it before. But now
I tryed to download stuff from my laptop via FTP and boy this sucks. I
made a few tests with different security settings, since I use WPA and
WPA is done in software...

setup:
 WRT54GS - with wrt-dd #22 prefinal4
 computer running debian with proftpd (xinetd)
 N770 with Opera as ftp client

tests:
 WPA-PSK TKIP+AES
  ftp ~80KB/s (cpu maxed out)

 WPA-PSK TKIP
  ftp ~150KB/s (cpu maxed out)

 WPA-PSK AES
  can't connect

 WEP 104bit
  ftp ~400KB/s (peek ~560KB/s)

 WEP 40bit
  same as for 104bit

 NONE
  same as for WEP

I didn't try WPA-EPA (radius). Also I noticed that the download
destination also impacts the speed. When writing to memory I couldn't
get more then 160KB/s, so all test downloads were done to MMC.

... Collin

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Collin R. Mulliner <collin at betaversion.net>
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