Thread: Poor wifi performance?
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2008-03-14 , 11:39
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#27
Originally Posted by Serge View Post
Performance depends on the way you are downloading data to the device. That ~1.2MB/s was measured as pure download speed, even without storing the received data on memory card. Saving data to memory card (that's natural for normal use) will drop the performance to ~1MB/s, using scp will decrease it even more because of extra load on cpu introduced by encryption. Poorly written download client may screw up the performance too. What have you used in your tests?
time wget -q -O /dev/null http://a.b.com/10mbrandomdata

With my best tuning it runs into a hard wall ( where nothing you throw at it makes a difference ) at around 5000kbps / 625kBps. Downloading to memory is actually the way the browser works, so it's not an unfair test.