On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 06:15, lynn <lynn@steve-ss.com> wrote:
Is wifi designed to be able to mount nfs shares? My connection is superb over Internet via my ISP but eg my xmas photos from my mobile took 10 minutes to download 20 Mb or so via nfs. And during nfs stuff the dlink connection to my router shows only 2 bars out of 5. As soon as nfs finishes it's back to 5/5. Maybe you're not supposed to use nfs over wireless. Please no 'works for me'. Just whether it can work properly or not. Only personal experiences please. No theory! 11.1 with a 64 bit nfs server and a laptop also on 11.1 connecting using kinternetmanager out of the box which I do not want to change. Phew. And my son thought i'd never be able to ask it.
You are right, it does seem a bit slow, however mainly I use WiFi for internet access, so I never bothered to do any benchmark: user@linux-kcso:/multim/Videos> time cp Rammstein\ -\ Du\ Riechst\ So\ Gut.mpeg /home/user/ real 0m30.656s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.544s user@linux-kcso:/multim/Videos> du Rammstein\ -\ Du\ Riechst\ So\ Gut.mpeg -sh 44M Rammstein - Du Riechst So Gut.mpeg That is 11.48 megabits/sec (44M / 30.65s = 1.43mB/sec * 8 = 11.48 mbps) ... I would say it seems "slow" but at the same time I would not expect to see a full 54mbps transfer rate on the WiFi (and have no other benchmarks to compare against... maybe you can do a benchmark yourself and compare? openSUSE 11.0 machine as the NFS server, connected via Ethernet to a Linksys WRT54GS v4 router running the newest DD-WRT firmware. Client is openSUSE 11.1 with an RAlink chipset wireless card. The router is placed high up, the client has an external antenna and is approx 15 feet away with just one (cheap drywall) wall between it and the router.Knetworkmanager shows 4/4 "bars." My WiFi router says the SNR is 33. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org