From: James Nichols (smilr_at_mac.com)
Date: Sun Apr 11 2004 - 07:54:51 PDT
I'm afraid I have to disagree - using the exact same wireless card and
router, my powebook averages 6 ms ping, lowest being 2.4 ms, and
highest being 28ms. my mp2100 (which I believe would be faster than his
emate 300) has an average of 10ms, high of 31ms and low of 7.7 ms. That
much lag is NOT normal behaviour for WIFi - but I would expect it on a
system with a slow processor such as the eMate.
Granted, when radio transmission conditions go south, WiFi systems can
exhibit his type of behaviour - but I'd ascribe it more to his eMate -
even on my 2100 pt100 is dog slow, but niftytelnet on my powerbook just
flies over the same hardware.
On Apr 11, 2004, at 7:23 AM, Doug Augustyn wrote:
> It's the WiFi. WiFi is known for it's high latency and low speed, but
> most
> people use it because of it's free cabling. I use my Newton with WiFi
> for
> listening to my home mp3 stream, and it gets pretty lagged.
>
> So, yeah, it is normal behavior for a WiFi net.
>
> Responding to Adam Short's comment:
> ||Hi,
> ||
> ||I just joined the list and have a teeny tiny question already. I've
> set
> ||up my emate 300 with a wireless card in order to connect it to the
> ||internet via my linux box. This all works fine, but it's horribly
> slow
> ||at times. Using PT100 to telnet in to the linux box and then ping the
> ||emate, I get response times that vary between 10ms and 1s, averaging
> ||around 400ms. Is this normal behaviour, or is there a way to get
> things
> ||to run faster? I realise the emate is an old machine, but I had
> thought
> ||it would be capable of a reasonable connection speed when given
> access
> ||to a wireless lan and a 512k cable line. If I was wrong, fair
> enough, I
> ||still love the machine anyway, but I just thought I'd ask.
> ||
> ||-- Adam Short - ajs at orinoco dot homelinux dot org
>
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