NFS, Why so slow?

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess you could look at it that way. I looked at it like the NFS IS
> slow but that could be caused by many things not just NFS itself. What
> is 11g speed? I thought 11 was 54 Mbit/s.  Does 11 default to a slower
> speed when there is a lot of noise? What channel might be best? The
> wifi card is on channel 11 and claims to have a 54 Mb/s link quality
> 85% on the server.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11g-2003

11g has the -maximum- speed of 54MBit/s but will slow down to the best
error-free speed supported and that can be as low as 1MBit/s. In
real-life I have rarely saw 54Mbit/s, the average is around 22Mbit/s
or less. It gets worse as you move further away from the access point
and amount of other networks using the same frequencies around you.
Unless you are virtually next to the AP in a desert, you are very
unlikely to see consistently high speeds.
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