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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
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 Posted - 12 July 2007 : 09:03:40
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Ok, this is strange.
I have a wireless router (ASUS WL-520g), which works fine, but there are some issues about download speeds that doesnīt seem logical to me. It was the same with another router I had, so itīs not that.
An example (there are many others websites like this):
1. Imagine website 1 and website 2, both have the same large file (over 100MB) available for download.
2. I connect my laptop using a cable and get about 220KB/sec download speed, both for website 1 and website 2.
3. I then connect my laptop using wireless, and now it becomes strange:
Website 1 gives me about 206KB/sec (a little lower than cable, but perfectly understandable).
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Website 2 gives me only about 80KB/sec (why is the wireless so much slower?).
I donīt get it ? Any thoughts about this ? |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2007 : 09:22:47
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How weird - some odd latency somehow, does it vary with time of day, etc? Or perhaps the route to site 2 is already running close to tolelrence, and the wireless is causing just enough extra delay to start dropping packets?
Most odd |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2007 : 09:44:01
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I have no idea about the technical aspects to this, but it does not vary from time to time, these numbers are quite stable.
Itīs very strange. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2007 : 10:35:22
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| does seem a bit strange, any chance you could email me the websites in question so that I can take a look from my connection, I have both a 20Mb Cable and a 12Mb ADSL line here with hard wired and wireless connections |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 13 July 2007 : 03:17:11
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I will Huw, from another forum I got this explanation:
"Packetloss. On a direct cable connection you have a lot more bandwidth to be able to recover from packet loss if it occurs. You don't have that on wireless." |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 13 July 2007 : 04:02:35
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| mmm, I'm not convinced of that explanation, I would expect most of your packetloss to occur on the WAN side of your router not the LAN side and if it is occuring on the LAN side then you would expect both sites to be a lot slower not just one of them. |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 13 July 2007 : 04:27:03
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| Neither am I, itīs very strange - I will mail you tonight with examples. |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 18 July 2007 : 13:25:51
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Did another test today, I will mail everyone who wants to test this, since these are client domains, I donīt want to post them here:
server a:
cable: 215 kb/s
wireless: 86 kb/s
server b:
cable: 216 kb/s
wireless: 215 kb/s |
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PPSSWeb
Junior Member
312 Posts |
Posted - 18 July 2007 : 14:41:45
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| Are these hosted on two different physical servers? |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 18 July 2007 : 15:30:29
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Yes
quote:
Originally posted by PPSSWeb
Are these hosted on two different physical servers?
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 20 July 2007 : 04:35:40
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Huw, did you get my mail ?
quote:
Originally posted by HuwR
does seem a bit strange, any chance you could email me the websites in question so that I can take a look from my connection, I have both a 20Mb Cable and a 12Mb ADSL line here with hard wired and wireless connections
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 20 July 2007 : 05:23:13
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| No I don't seem to have |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 20 July 2007 : 15:39:12
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| Ok, check now. |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2007 : 08:17:01
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| Huw, would you like to test this for me ? Or anyone else for that matter ? |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2007 : 08:19:53
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| can you email me the links ? |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2007 : 08:22:49
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| Mail sent ! |
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