Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:12:23 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources? Message-ID: <20050302001223.GA30896@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <421EB26B.5050608@kelleycows.com> References: <421EB26B.5050608@kelleycows.com>
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:06:51PM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? > > I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router & firewall (FreeBSD > 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 > Mbps I get from my broadband connection, at least not with ethernet. > > I wanted wireless, so I could use my laptop around the house. I > dutifully read the section in the manual about setting up FreeBSD as an > access point. I'm using a Netgear MA311 802.11b card (Prism 2.5 > chipset). And it does work, except it's very slow. Now I know that I > can only expect about 50% of the rated speed with wireless, but I I thought it was more like only 10% of the rated bandwidth. > figured even if I got only 4Mbps, I'd be fine. But I get less than > 1Mbps. I've updated the firmware, added a signal booster and hi-gain > antenna, and I have "excellent" signal strength throughout my house. > > So my question is, is there more overhead with wireless than with > ethernet? TOP doesn't seem to show that I'm taxing it too hard, idle > never goes below about 70% with polling enabled (Hz=1000), and never > below about 80% with polling disabled. Am I expecting too much out of > an old Pentium-166? > > Thanks for your help. > > Christopher > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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