Why is this wireless connection so slow??

I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband. The
router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025 (802.11g)

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:58:54 GMT, "Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband. The
>router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025 (802.11g)
>

You really expect an answer from that measly drop of info?

How far apart are the client and AP? What OS?

Provide some information....

Are you getting 14kilo bytes per second or 14kilo bits per second.
What is you cable speed?
"Beretta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:58:54 GMT, "Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband.
The
> >router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025
(802.11g)
> >
>
> You really expect an answer from that measly drop of info?
>
> How far apart are the client and AP? What OS?
>
> Provide some information....
>
>

Mike wrote:

> I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband. The
> router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025 (802.11g)
>
>

Uh, 14kWHATps? 14KB/s on 802.11g would be fairly reasonable, 14Kb/s
would indicate a problem.
--
Cheers, Bob

If I'm not mistaken, the MR814 is a wireless B router and wirelessly,
the alleged maximum transfer speed is 11 mbps. Is your wireless G card
set to mixed mode (b & g) or b or g?

Mike wrote:
> I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband. The
> router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025 (802.11g)
>
>

In article <tdnrd.86828$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Doug Jamal <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:If I'm not mistaken, the MR814 is a wireless B router and wirelessly,
:the alleged maximum transfer speed is 11 mbps.

Not exactly. The 11 Mbps refers to the maximum raw bit rate. There are
a lot of overhead octets and error correction bits, that act together
to take the maximum transfer speed to considerably lower than 11 Mbps.
--
csh is bad drugs.

In article <epkrd.120636$V41.103401@attbi_s52>,
Bob Willard <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:Mike wrote:

:> I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband. The
:> router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025 (802.11g)

:Uh, 14kWHATps? 14KB/s on 802.11g would be fairly reasonable, 14Kb/s
:would indicate a problem.

14 Kbytes/s is poor transfer speed on -any- wireless system.

The lowest raw bit rate for any 802.11b or 802.11g wireless system
is 1 megabits per second. At a rough approximation, 40% of that raw
bit rate is consumed by overheads and error correction bits, leaving
at least 600000 bits/s for payloads. That's 75 Kbytes/s, or about
5 times faster than the OP is indicating. The OP isn't going to
have so much latency as to reduce TCP transfer rates by a factor of
five due to filling up the sliding window -- latency that high would
require links many many times longer than the signal range of
that combination of equipment.

Now, it is possible that the OP is having congestion problems between
the points he is measuring the transfer over -- for example, the OP might
be using cable modem with a loop shared by some friendly neighbourhood
kazaa server. Nominal -upload- rates are often about 512 Kbit/s
for residential broadband... but that would still be noticably faster
than 14 Kbyte/s. The rate that the OP is stating would be about
consistant with *uploads* for what is often sold under the name
"DSL.Lite" (512 Kbit/s download, 128 Kbit/s upload).


Anytime you see a *really* bad transfer throughput, the first thing
that one should suspect is that one has a duplex mismatch at some stage
in the chain. In the OP's case, the mismatch could be between the
MR814 and the RoadRunner broadband modem.
--
"Infinity is like a stuffed walrus I can hold in the palm of my hand.
Don't do anything with infinity you wouldn't do with a stuffed walrus."
-- Dr. Fletcher, Va. Polytechnic Inst. and St. Univ.

Walter Roberson wrote:
> In article <epkrd.120636$V41.103401@attbi_s52>,
> Bob Willard <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> :Mike wrote:
>
> :> I am only getting 14 kps download speeds with RoadRunner broadband. The
> :> router is Netgear MR814 and wireless NIC is Airlink AWLH3025 (802.11g)
>
> :Uh, 14kWHATps? 14KB/s on 802.11g would be fairly reasonable, 14Kb/s
> :would indicate a problem.
>
> 14 Kbytes/s is poor transfer speed on -any- wireless system.
>
> The lowest raw bit rate for any 802.11b or 802.11g wireless system
> is 1 megabits per second. At a rough approximation, 40% of that raw
> bit rate is consumed by overheads and error correction bits, leaving
> at least 600000 bits/s for payloads. That's 75 Kbytes/s, or about
> 5 times faster than the OP is indicating. The OP isn't going to
> have so much latency as to reduce TCP transfer rates by a factor of
> five due to filling up the sliding window -- latency that high would
> require links many many times longer than the signal range of
> that combination of equipment.
>
> Now, it is possible that the OP is having congestion problems between
> the points he is measuring the transfer over -- for example, the OP might
> be using cable modem with a loop shared by some friendly neighbourhood
> kazaa server. Nominal -upload- rates are often about 512 Kbit/s
> for residential broadband... but that would still be noticably faster
> than 14 Kbyte/s. The rate that the OP is stating would be about
> consistant with *uploads* for what is often sold under the name
> "DSL.Lite" (512 Kbit/s download, 128 Kbit/s upload).
>
>
> Anytime you see a *really* bad transfer throughput, the first thing
> that one should suspect is that one has a duplex mismatch at some stage
> in the chain. In the OP's case, the mismatch could be between the
> MR814 and the RoadRunner broadband modem.

Arrrgh. Sure. Total brain fade on my part.
--
Cheers, Bob

the connections says 11 Mbps, the router is only 25 feet away down some
stairs, all the operating systems on the network use XP. When other people
are on the network I can barely surf. Will switching channels on the router
fix the problem? I live in a condominium community so are the neighbors
causing interferrence?

In article <Awtrd.4578$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Mike <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:the connections says 11 Mbps, the router is only 25 feet away down some
:stairs, all the operating systems on the network use XP. When other people
:are on the network I can barely surf. Will switching channels on the router
:fix the problem? I live in a condominium community so are the neighbors
:causing interferrence?

Possibly, but we don't have sufficient information.

Is the wireless router locked down with an encryption key that only you
know? If not, then others may be (deliberately or accidently) associating
with the wireless router, and you may be encountering some collision
avoidance measures... and of course the others might be using up all
the bandwidth.

But before getting into that, I would strongly recommend that you
check the duplex settings of the wireless router to the RoadRunner
broadband modem. The speeds you are seeing very much suggest that
you have a mismatch, such as if one of the devices is set to autonegotiate
and the other one is set at a fixed speed and duplex. It is vital that
both devices be set the same way -- either both set to autonegotiate, or
both set to a fixed speed and duplex.

If the wireless router believes the link is full duplex then the
wireless router will believe that it is safe to set your TCP 'ACK'
packets back up the wire at the same time the broadband modem is
sending data down the wire [full duplex == can send and receive at
the same time.] If, though, the broadband modem is either set to
half duplex or set to autonegotiate when the wireless router is set
not to negotiate, then the broadband modem is not going to expect those
returning ACKs, and is going to treat them as "late collisions" and
abort sending the packet. Normal TCP sends ACKs every second packet,
but your performance ends up much worse than that: the other end
isn't going to receive the ACK and so it is going to resend not just
the packet that got the late collission but also the two packets prior
that the ACK would have covered; that's 3 packets, and that's going
to set off another ACK that's going to lead to another late collission...
There are also some timeouts involved before retransmissions start,
and those timeouts can be as long as 1/2 second each (with 1/5 second
fairly common.)

When you have a duplex mismatch, the wonder is not that the transmission
ends up so slow: the wonder is that you get any data through at all.
--
Oh, to be a Blobel!