Looks like I misread the interface details, it's just showing that its at
100mb rather than 1gb

I'll try running some speed tests tonight.

-- 
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
On 15 Feb 2013 07:22, "Jon Spriggs" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>>
_______________________________________________
Development mailing list
[email protected]
http://fonosfera.org/mailman/listinfo/development

Reply via email to