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XR500 wifi to ethernet speed
Hello everybody, I'm trying to track down an issue where network speeds between a device connected to wifi and another device connected by ethernet is very slow, specifically below 200kbps. When bot...
Correct; this issue only happens when the two devices are not using the same connection type. I’m using two MacBook pros and a raspberry pi for testing.
Wow that is very strange. In the Device Manager do they have an appropriate device type? When they're connected in different ways they will appear as another device so important to make sure you know what they are. Are you using the Geo-Filter with these devices at all?
I agree it's very strange.
I've verified that the "Device Type" for the Raspberry Pi is set to "Computer" and the one for the Macbook Pro is set to "Laptop" (changing it to "Computer" did nothing).
I am not using any geo filtering; i.e.: there are no devices within Geo-Filter.
To put into perspecitve what I'm seeing, here's the results from using iperf from a Macbook Pro to Raspberry Pi:
Over Ethernet:
> iperf -l 128k -c 192.168.1.24 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.1.24, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 128 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.1.90 port 49758 connected with 192.168.1.24 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 383 MBytes 321 Mbits/sec
Over Wifi:
> iperf -l 128k -c 192.168.1.24 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.1.24, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 129 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.1.132 port 49783 connected with 192.168.1.24 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-14.7 sec 254 KBytes 142 Kbits/sec
I also noticed that while the ethernet bandwidth is relatively consistent the bandwidth using wifi varies greatly. Here are the last 3 performance metrics over wifi:
0.0-11.4 sec 1.46 MBytes 1.08 Mbits/sec
0.0-14.7 sec 254 KBytes 142 Kbits/sec
0.0-14.6 sec 1.09 MBytes 626 Kbits/sec
- Thanks for the extra information, have you done any port forwarding at all? Specifically port 80 or 443? If you give the devices both wifi/ethernet versions a reserved IP in LAN Settings and then reboot the router does that help?
No port forwarding. And giving them both IPs using address reservation did not improve the performance.
I really appreciate the help; I'm at the end of my ideas. Maybe I'll look into installing OpenWRT on to it.
~John