samba speed on wireless

[bbaccsi]

hi
I know that this topic has been talked through many many times, but...

I have a fixed and a wireless connection to my wl500g
My fix line samba speed is about 3,3 mbytes/s and it WAS the same for the wireless, but for some days it's below 600 kbytes/s. (tested in both within 5 minutes)

I just don't know the reason why.

I've made an iperf to the wireless line, and it says that it works perfectly:
"[root@asus root]$ iperf -c 192.168.1.45
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.45, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 5] local 192.168.1.1 port 1142 connected with 192.168.1.45 port 5001
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 9.02 MBytes 7.56 Mbits/sec
[root@asus root]$
"

Already tried to turn off firewall and antivirus, but nothing changed.

Both are XP, with the same patch level.

Any ideas?

[newbiefan]

I had the same problem several months ago - check out your neighbourhood, I bet at least one other is using the same channel or one in the near of yours.
Check out a free channel - best is 1,6,11 because these don't interfere each other.

[bbaccsi]

I had the same problem several months ago - check out your neighbourhood, I bet at least one other is using the same channel or one in the near of yours.
Check out a free channel - best is 1,6,11 because these don't interfere each other.

thanx for the idea, but Cain says that it's not the case. It's only my network on channel 1 and there're two other on 6.

================================================== ================
= Cain's Wireless Scanner =
================================================== ================
BSSID: xxxxxxxx
Last seen: 16/03/2008 - 20:20:44
Vendor: ASUSTek COMPUTER INC.
Signal: -50 dBm
SSID: bbaccsi
Enc: Yes
Mode: Infrastructure
Channel: 1 (2412000 Hz)
Rates (Mbps): 1, 2, 5, 11, 18, 24, 36, 54,
Packets:
Unique WEP IVs:

BSSID: 00146C216F02
Last seen: 16/03/2008 - 20:20:44
Vendor: Netgear Inc.
Signal: -94 dBm
SSID: 00146c216f02
Enc: Yes
Mode: Infrastructure
Channel: 6 (2437000 Hz)
Rates (Mbps): 1, 2, 5, 11, 6, 12, 24, 36,
Packets:
Unique WEP IVs:

BSSID: 001B2F5DAE70
Last seen: 16/03/2008 - 20:18:35
Vendor: NETGEAR Inc.
Signal: -94 dBm
SSID: Chello
Enc: Yes
Mode: Infrastructure
Channel: 6 (2437000 Hz)
Rates (Mbps): 1, 2, 5, 11, 6, 12, 24, 36,
Packets:
Unique WEP IVs:

[avberk]

You need to set the asus to a FIXED channel.
Try a few and see what works.

Do you have security enabled on the asus? (not that someone is steeling bandwidth)

[bbaccsi]

You need to set the asus to a FIXED channel.
Try a few and see what works.

Do you have security enabled on the asus? (not that someone is steeling bandwidth)

Thx, I'll try putting it fixed on channel 1 in the evening.

However, some facts are against the 'someone stealing bandwidth' theory:
- ISP gives 5mbit/s connection so there should be huge to left for samba
- iprerf did show more than 7mbyte/s, and my samba WAS 3,3 mbyte/s through wireless, a week before
- on the desktop PC (with ethernet connection) the samba copy speed is still 3,3 mbyte/s
- I'm checking the logs and sniffing for not usual packets often

It's quite misterious for me...