On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 20:43:44 -0700 David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2016 12:43 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > On 09/08/16 22:57, David Christensen wrote: > >> My laptop has 802.11 a/b/g WiFi and Fast Ethernet. Wireless data > >> transfers are slow (~50 Mbps). Wired is twice as fast (100 Mbps); still > >> slow. Newer WiFi (n, ac) should be faster, but only the newest WiFi > >> hardware can match or beat Gigabit. > > > > I think it is reasonable to expect that the wireless transfer rate is > > lower than the one obtained in a wired network. But there is a big > > difference compared to the ~50 Mpbs you mentioned. The peak obtained > > with rsync was 10 Mbps. Maybe the best is to take a metric with iperf, > > what do you think? > > See the benchmark I just posted for 802.11g WiFi -- dm-crypt -> scp -> > dm-crypt, all without AES-NI -- 110341671 bits/second. Yuck. FTR: there seem to be more typos / here. The actual figure should be 11034157.6344 bits/second. Celejar