Wow, its been some time since I followed up on this. I've done some more jiggling of my network, and I spotted last night that the router is showing the uplink as being half duplex (I'm going off the interface lights on the router). I changed the Ethernet cable, even swapped the two Fon 2.0n devices I have over, and it's still showing half duplex.
Last night, I installed (using opkg) the ethtool program to try to force the interface to 100/full, but all it seems able to do is report that the link is present. So, what do I need to try next? -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 15 Dec 2012 21:35, "Jon Spriggs" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the delay - it's been a crazy few days! > > See inline below. > > -- > Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs > > > > On 12 December 2012 14:42, Matthijs Kooijman - Fon < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jon, >> >> > When running a speedtest (via speedtest.net) from either wired or >> wireless >> > clients, I get approx 2Mb download speed. >> Weird. Do you see the same speed when downloading actual files from a >> fast source? >> > > I'm afraid I didn't look at it, I was trying not to rant at the Virgin > Media support guy, and then was back-peddling too hard to figure out where > the issue came from. > > >> In some tests a did a year or so ago, the 2.0n was able to do around >> 94 Mbit/s, so there shouldn't be any fixed limit here. >> >> I guess there is some kind of problem, but I'm not really sure what it >> would be. >> > > I'm not actually convinced now that there was. I suspect it was more > likely that I had other network traffic which was saturating the link when > the FON device (with 4 populated interfaces) was connected, than when I had > one device connected to test as per the support person's advice. I am > getting slower speeds over WiFi (802.11n) than directly connected, but > that's currently going to the "SuperHub" rather than the FON device, so I > can't blame that either :) > > >> > I get approx 58Mb download speed. Likewise, changing the Modem mode to >> > Hub mode I have the same issue. >> What is "Modem mode" and "Hub mode" exactly? >> > > Modem = Media Converter (ish) - Fibre -> Ethernet > Hub = Router + WiFi > > >> > I've not particularly seen any signs of packet loss between the two >> > devices, so I was wondering whether it might be processor use or >> > something similar. >> Perhaps if the CPU is somehow loaded with other tasks (transmission?), >> it could be possible that the network throughput suffers, though I >> haven't actually tested this. >> > > The only thing being performed on the FON device is NAT, I run no > applications aside from the OpenVPN (and even that wasn't being utilized at > the time) > > >> If your modem performs NAT in one of it's configuration, you could try >> switching the Fonera to bridge mode, meaning it will connect its WAN and >> LAN ports in a plain layer-2 switch / bridge configuration, removing the >> need for packets to pass through the CPU at all. >> > > I'm doing that at the moment, and it certainly fulfils my requirements for > right now. > > >> Regards, >> >> Matthijs Kooijman >> > > Thanks for your help Matthijs. > > _______________________________________________ >> Development mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fonosfera.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > >
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