Description of problem: Just some benchmarking data. I'm sick of my card performance sucking. [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/jon/test.img bs=1024 count=1048576 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 87.1328 s, 12.3 MB/s Wired: kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 100% 1024MB 10.8MB/s 01:35 real 1m38.579s user 0m18.033s sys 0m17.340s Wireless: kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 1% 10MB 88.5KB/s 3:15:29 ETA Killed by signal 2. real 2m7.620s user 0m0.839s sys 0m0.291s Wired: 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 100% 1024MB 10.1MB/s 01:41 real 1m41.808s user 0m18.321s sys 0m17.643s Wireless: 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 36% 374MB 1.6MB/s 06:52 ETA Killed by signal 2. real 4m7.868s user 0m14.910s sys 0m14.681s Wired: 2.6.23.14-115.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 100% 1024MB 10.7MB/s 01:36 real 1m36.066s user 0m18.144s sys 0m18.193s Wireless: 2.6.23.14-115.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 1% 11MB 93.1KB/s 3:05:43 ETA Killed by signal 2. real 2m4.585s user 0m0.619s sys 0m0.310s 2.6.23.14-107 seems to give the best performance, but 1.6MB/s still sucks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 413291 ***
Hmmm. 2.6.23.14-107 is not working with 802.11b APs, but works great with 802.11g APs.
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Wired: 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.12: test.img 100% 1024MB 10.9MB/s 01:34 real 1m40.475s user 0m18.532s sys 0m17.693s Wireless: 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 27% 283MB 1.3MB/s 09:37 ETA Killed by signal 2. real 3m42.484s user 0m10.191s sys 0m8.585s
the same speed problem for me with kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
Wireless: 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 This is with using the latest recommended firmware and b43-fwcutter-011 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ time scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 100% 1000MB 1.4MB/s 11:50 real 11m57.563s user 0m33.097s sys 0m26.788s
Wireless: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 [jon@damaestrojr ~]$ scp test.img 192.168.0.x: test.img 100% 1000MB 1.9MB/s 08:54 Good work, performance has been improving/staying steady.