Improving abysmal 802.11n wireless network
- by concept
I am in desperate need of help to improve the abysmal performance of my 802.11n wireless network. At best I get 30Mbs (this is an internet download) from a technology that boasts 300Mbs, even worse is the LAN where to date best i have ever gotten is 1Mbs. It is literally quicker to copy the file to a USB and walk it to the other computer.
Infrastructure is this
AP 802.11n only broadcasting at both 2.4GHz and 5GHz
Mac with 802.11a/b/g/n card is connected to the AP via 5GHz
Linux with 802.11a/b/g/n card is connected to AP via 2.4GHz
I have conducted the following tests (results at end of post)
Internet based speed test wired and wireless
LAN file copy wired and wireless
I have read:
http://nutsaboutnets.com/troubleshooting-wi-fi-problems/
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-basics/30664-5-ways-to-fix-slow-80211n-- speed
http colon //www.wi-fiplanet dot com/tutorials/7-tips-to-increase-wi-fi-performance.html
Slow file transfer on network between two 802.11n laptops (connected directly together via access point)
Wireless Network Performance Issues
Slower than expected 802.11n wireless network speeds
I have made the following optimizations
AP broadcasts only 802.11n on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies
2.4GHz is on a channel with least interference (live in an apartment with lots of APs), this did make a 10Mb/sec improvement
Our AP is the only one transmitting on the 5GHz freq.
Security: WPA Personal WPA2 AES encryption
Bandwidth: 20MHz / 40MHz (i assume this to be channel bonding)
I have tried the following with 0 improvement
Dropped the Fragment Threshold to 512
Dropped the Request To Send (RTS) Threshold to 512 and 1
Even thought of buying a frequency spectrum analyzer, until i saw the cost of them!!!
Speed test results
Linux Wired:
DOWNLOAD 128.40Mb/s
UPLOAD 10.62Mb/s
www dot speedtest dot net/my-result/2948381853
Mac Wired:
DOWNLOAD 118.02Mb/s
UPLOAD 10.56Mb/s
www dot speedtest dot net/my-result/2948384406
Linux Wireless:
DOWNLOAD 23.99Mb/s
UPLOAD 10.31Mb/s
www.speedtest dot net/my-result/2948394990
Mac Wireless:
DOWNLOAD 22.55Mb/s
UPLOAD 10.36Mb/s
www.speedtest dot net/my-result/2948396489
LAN NFS 53,345,087 bytes (51Mb) file
Linux Mac NFS Wired: 65.6959 Mb/sec
Linux Mac NFS Wireless: .9443 Mb/sec
All help is appreciated, even testing methods will be accepted.
