Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

From	Catherine Gramze <rhiamom@mac.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network
Date	2017-05-20 17:10 +0200
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> On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote:
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have some doubts about the throughput of my home network and I'm
>> hoping for some advice on tools that might help me diagnose it.
>> 
>> My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one
>> Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine acting as my firewall, another LFS
>> laptop that is connected only occasionally, a Windows 8.1 laptop, 3
>> iPhones of varying ages, 2 iPads, 1 Android tablet device, a couple of
>> other proprietary tablets and a Buffalo Linkstation that provides most
>> of the connectivity.
>> 
>> The internet access is via Cable. I run an ethernet cable from the
>> cable modem to the firewall machine, then from the firewall machine to
>> the Linkstation's WAN port. The firewall machine's WiFi interface is
>> disabled (I didn't include its driver when I built the kernel for that
>> machine). The Jessie box, a phone-to-ethernet device and a NAS are
>> plugged into the Linkstation wired LAN ports. Everything else connects
>> to the Linkstation WiFi. The LinkStation offers 2.4GHz and 5GHz
>> connections, the 2.4GHz is b/g and the 5GHz is ac I believe. Those
>> devices that can use the 5GHz connection, are, the rest are using the
>> 2.4GHz.
>> 
>> I have my doubts about cross-LAN throughput. For example, as I write I
>> am using WinSCP on the Windows 8.1 laptop to copy a movie file from my
>> Jessie box to the laptop. (The movie concerned is not copyright before
>> anyone asks). The Jessie box is connected to the LinkStation by wired
>> ethernet, and the Windows 8.1 laptop by WiFi. I am getting a transfer
>> rate consistently across the life of the connection of 880KB/s. I'd
>> expect it to be a lot faster than that. I checked the WinSCP software
>> is capable of limiting the connection speed, but is set not to.

>> .
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> Mark

>  Delurking. Just a quick suggestion here. Do you have the proprietary non-free firmware installed for all your NICs? When they work without the firmware it is often a much slower connection, like b when the NIC is capable of n or a/c, but only when using the proprietary firmware. 

Cathy
>

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[A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 07:50 +0200
  Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2017-05-20 09:30 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 10:10 +0200
  Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-20 12:20 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 10:20 +0200
  Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-20 15:40 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Catherine Gramze <rhiamom@mac.com> - 2017-05-20 17:10 +0200
      Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 10:20 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-21 19:00 +0200
      Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-21 21:20 +0200
      Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-05-22 14:50 +0200
        Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-22 17:00 +0200
          Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-05-22 17:20 +0200
        Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-23 17:30 +0200
          Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-05-24 00:50 +0200
            Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-24 20:50 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 10:20 +0200
      Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-26 11:00 +0200
      Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-27 19:10 +0200
        Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-06-01 13:00 +0200
          Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-06-01 13:30 +0200
            Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network メット <mett@pmars.jp> - 2017-06-01 15:10 +0200
            Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-06-02 12:00 +0200
        Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-06-01 13:10 +0200
  Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 05:50 +0200
  Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-21 06:10 +0200
  Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-05-21 16:40 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-24 01:40 +0200
    Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 10:40 +0200
      Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-05-26 12:30 +0200
        Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-05-27 07:20 +0200

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