Linksys WRT54GS wireless router occasionally drops to 1.0 Mb

[JW]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:52:37 -0700 Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote in Message id: <kukttbt2qtb0gb9r9ao1eqd3nu7dibp8vs@4ax.com>:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 06:48:51 -0400, JW <none@dev.null> wrote:

Yep, just checked and that one is 5GHz. The utility that's built into the
thing is pretty cool. It shows all the clients that are connected, their
IP addresses, their MAC addresses, throughout, and connect frequency. It
also has a traffic analyzer and monitor plus tons of other stuff to play
with. Even keeps statistics on how much data is transferred on a
daily/weekly/monthly basis.

Out of morbid curiosity, does the Acer utility show the connection

Asus.

speed in both directions? In infrastructure mode, the connection
speed (actually the associations speed) is set by the wireless access
point and can be different in each direction. I've seen lots of
sniffers and monitors, but they always seem to show the connect speed
only in one direction, usually from the AP to the Client radio.

Yes, it shows speed in both directions: TX and RX.

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:55:51 -0400, JW <none@dev.null> wrote:

>Asus.

Sorry. The names are sufficiently similar that I often get them
confused.

>Yes, it shows speed in both directions: TX and RX.

Very cool. That would give me a tool to test for local interference
at one end of a wireless link without sniffing the traffic. If a
client receiver is hearing RF junk from a local source of
interference, the data rate from the wireless access point to the
local receiver will probably be much lower in that direction. In the
other direction, where the receiver does not hear any interference,
the data rate will be higher. Acer, err... Asus, did that one
correctly.



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